Customised text box not showing up

[Akzeriyyuth]

Hi guys;

I'm trying to customise the text box (and a few other things) for my game but Ren'Py isn't acknowledging the changes. So far I've watched a bunch of videos which have just substituted one file for the new customised one, and tried that, read through the customisation guide in case it was a coding issue... but still... no change. I just get the faded in black one that comes with the game, which I'd like to change to a PNG graphic I made which is a different colour and where the text would look nicer over. Graphic is the same dimensions, same file format, same name as the original one, and in the GUI folder.

Has anyone else had this problem or had to fix something similar? Do I need to define the graphic to refer to in the code (in GUI? In screens?) or does it need to be a specific file format (ie. not PNG) or something?

Thank you so much.

[isobellesophia]

You can just easily change a pic of your txtbox, and make sure it has the same size as the game has. You can change the size in the gui.rpy

[verysunshine]

Graphic is the same dimensions, same file format, same name as the original one, and in the GUI folder.

By default, the game is looking for a text box file named "textbox.png" in the gui folder. The code is on line 139 of gui.rpy.

Where is the original file?

[Akzeriyyuth]

Where is the original file?

Thank you so much... that turned out to be the problem: it was in a subfolder of /gui, not /game/gui.

I have learned a very important lesson about folders, LOL: appreciate you getting back to me though.

[Potato0095]

Where is the original file?

Thank you so much... that turned out to be the problem: it was in a subfolder of /gui, not /game/gui.

I have learned a very important lesson about folders, LOL: appreciate you getting back to me though.

The /game is where the code runs, so it checks as default /. Folders INSIDE game are the folders you want to use in your script, like /gui, /images, /scripts, /sounds, and such.

[rayminator]

Where is the original file?

Thank you so much... that turned out to be the problem: it was in a subfolder of /gui, not /game/gui.

I have learned a very important lesson about folders, LOL: appreciate you getting back to me though.

The /game is where the code runs, so it checks as default /. Folders INSIDE game are the folders you want to use in your script, like /gui, /images, /scripts, /sounds, and such.

I think he was doing this and he figure it out that he was doing it wrong

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            ground 'game/gui/save2.png'
            hover 'game/gui/save_hover.png'