How to create a "check point" with an "hidden auto-save"?

[deltadidirac]

hi
- in my game are scheduled different paths...
- there will be a screen that show (as a diagram with lines and dots) your paths done and not.
- in the general logic , the dots are the same thing of a "save slot" (when you do a new save slot it will be create a screenshot of the save moment
and , obviously, also the file save that will report all the values you have increased or decreased and the choose you did it)
- so when you open your screen and click on the dots created, you return in precisely in the same moment of the "dot creation" (the check-point) and you
obviously will have the same values and so on.... ( as i wrote before, practically it's the same thing of a save and load action)

I could force the player to do it with a button as: "Hei! you are in a check point, click here before go on!"
But I think it's more elegant to do this thing hidden and in autonomy by renpy; is it possible?

probably the code it's all already wrote for the default save screen of the game, but I would like to understand how parts I need about it, and how define and where add the "check-point- code" in a label to relate it after with this code

I really hope to have explain right.... sorry for my english

thanks

[Imperf3kt]

Do you need this "check point" accessible once you reach the next? Or is it okay to overwrite the checkpoints with the most current one reached?

You could use the quick save function for this if so.

[deltadidirac]

hi imp
no i do not must overwrite the same check point, i must create several and different check points... and the player will choose at wich point he want restart...

[Imperf3kt]

Then perhaps the autosave function.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/other.ht ... e_autosave

I tried to edit my previous post to say this, but at that exact time both renpy.org and the lemmasodt forums had stopped responding.

[isobellesophia]

If you want to know that the player has been checkpointed, just put a renpy.notify so that the player knows that he or she has been put in that checkpoint for some special events.

[deltadidirac]

thanks to all

Imp, I will try your suggest next days , after I will write; now I'm stuck with another problem...