More types of say

[hapciupalit]

So I've been trying to customise the say screen to allow different types of text. Something like this:

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screen say(who, what, type):
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        id "window"

        if who is not None:

            window:
                style "namebox"
                if type == "think":
                	text who id "who" color "#fafafa" size 10
                elif type == "yell":
                	text who id "who" size 20
                else:
                	text who id "who"

        text what id "what"
        

Is it possible use something like this or maybe instead of those if type to have more screens types of say? But not sure how I'll use them beside:

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screen say_think(who, what):
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        id "window"

        if who is not None:

            window:
                style "namebox"
                text who id "who" color "#fafafa" size 10

        text what id "what" color "#fafafa" size 10

show say_think("name", "Hello world!", "yell")
hide say_think

This approach I don't like because there is too much to write, I was hoping for a solution like:

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player "Hello world!" "yell"

Any idea is good.

[hell_oh_world]

I think you can simply do this without changing anything under the say screen, and just doing this...

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define yell = dict(
  who_color="#f00",
  who_font="some_font.ttf",
  # what_color="#0f0" # you can also pass styles for the what statement, just prefix whatever you want to pass with who/what/window
)

label start:
  "normal"
  "yelling" (**yell)

another way maybe is to create multiple characters for your character for the different styles...

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define mc = Character("mc", who_color="#fff", what_color="#f00")
define mc_yelling = mc.copy(who_color="#0f0") # sets the who_color to green for the yelling but leaves the what color to red as stated above...

label start:
  mc "normal"
  mc_yelling "yelling"

[hapciupalit]

I think you can simply do this without changing anything under the say screen, and just doing this...

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define yell = dict(
  who_color="#f00",
  who_font="some_font.ttf",
  # what_color="#0f0" # you can also pass styles for the what statement, just prefix whatever you want to pass with who/what/window
)

label start:
  "normal"
  "yelling" (**yell)

another way maybe is to create multiple characters for your character for the different styles...

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define mc = Character("mc", who_color="#fff", what_color="#f00")
define mc_yelling = mc.copy(who_color="#0f0") # sets the who_color to green for the yelling but leaves the what color to red as stated above...

label start:
  mc "normal"
  mc_yelling "yelling"

This is perfect! Thank you very much!

[hapciupalit]

I think you can simply do this without changing anything under the say screen, and just doing this...

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define yell = dict(
  who_color="#f00",
  who_font="some_font.ttf",
  # what_color="#0f0" # you can also pass styles for the what statement, just prefix whatever you want to pass with who/what/window
)

label start:
  "normal"
  "yelling" (**yell)

[/code]

I got one more question. I have decided to use this approach, however now I'm strugling with something else. At first I was thinking that when the npc yells it's going to be uppercase, when he is thinking another color and italic text, however the designer have another idea and was wondering if there is an easy way to achieve this.
He wants something like this. So is there a way to expand that dict and the say screen to have something similar?


I've been trying like this, but my python knowledge got the best of me and I'm a bit stuck.

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define thinking = dict (
    emo = "*thinking*",
    what_color = "#B6B6B6",
    what_italic = True
)

screen say(who, what, *emo):
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        id "window"

        if who is not None:

            window:
                style "namebox"
                text who id "who"

        if emo :
            text emo
        text what id "what"

But it crashes. Am I doing something wrong?

[Imperf3kt]

do you mean the two different text sizes in one dialogue screen?
use text tags

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npc "{size=30}This is size 30 text, {/size} and this is {size=50}size 50{/size} text."

To have it as you've displayed there, something like this should work. (numbers made up, adjust as necessary)

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npc "{size=20}\"Yelling\"{/size}\n\nLorem ipsum dolor sit amet..."

Or this

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npc """
{size=20}Yelling{/size}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..."""

[hell_oh_world]

well, it's getting a bit complicated what you want, but i can suggest a workaround, though not really sure if it is the best way, but it works.
first is to remove the *emo in your code.
then replace the condition within the say screen as something like...

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$ emo = _last_say_kwargs.get("emo") # emo since this is what you named the value in your thinking dict...
if emo:
  text emo

Isn't that Brian from RoyalCandy's game? Maybe just a coincidence?

then just past it normally, (**thinking)...

[hapciupalit]

well, it's getting a bit complicated what you want, but i can suggest a workaround, though not really sure if it is the best way, but it works.
first is to remove the *emo in your code.
then replace the condition within the say screen as something like...

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$ emo = _last_say_kwargs.get("emo") # emo since this is what you named the value in your thinking dict...
if emo:
  text emo

Isn't that Brian from RoyalCandy's game? Maybe just a coincidence?

then just past it normally, (**thinking)...

This is working like charm. Thank you very much!

[hapciupalit]

do you mean the two different text sizes in one dialogue screen?
use text tags

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npc "{size=30}This is size 30 text, {/size} and this is {size=50}size 50{/size} text."

To have it as you've displayed there, something like this should work. (numbers made up, adjust as necessary)

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npc "{size=20}\"Yelling\"{/size}\n\nLorem ipsum dolor sit amet..."

Or this

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npc """
{size=20}Yelling{/size}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..."""
[/quote]
This is the approach I'm currently using however I wanted to be more consistent and create some rules and make the writing more easily. So instead of all the
[code]
{size=..}...{/size}\n ... {i}...{/i}" and so on...

I just wanted to have something like :

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npc yell "something"

But with hell_oh_wolrd's approach it's worrking really nice, it's more heavy on the python code, but now when I write text for different emotions I just do:

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npc "Something" (**yell)
npc "I'm whispering something here" (**whisper)

[hapciupalit]

I think you can simply do this without changing anything under the say screen, and just doing this...

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define yell = dict(
  who_color="#f00",
  who_font="some_font.ttf",
  # what_color="#0f0" # you can also pass styles for the what statement, just prefix whatever you want to pass with who/what/window
)

label start:
  "normal"
  "yelling" (**yell)

another way maybe is to create multiple characters for your character for the different styles...

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define mc = Character("mc", who_color="#fff", what_color="#f00")
define mc_yelling = mc.copy(who_color="#0f0") # sets the who_color to green for the yelling but leaves the what color to red as stated above...

label start:
  mc "normal"
  mc_yelling "yelling"

I discovered a bug I haven't realised at first, because I was testing this in a simple project. But now that I have integrated everything in my game something is wrong.
Whenever I use (**thinking) or something, the npc name turns to "renpy.object.Sentinel". The thing that could affect is my Character class.

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class Player(ADVCharacter):
        def __init__(self, name="Justin", **kwargs):
            super(Player, self).__init__(name,**kwargs)

            self.name = name
            
            #some method goes here

default justin = Player()

And now if I say something like this:

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justin "Say something"
justin "Say something loud." (**loud)

Instead of seeing his name in the screen I see "renpy.object.Sentinel".
Do you have any idea what am I doing wrong?
I'm sure that the methods in the Player class does not affect this because I have deleted everything there to test and it was still the same.

[hell_oh_world]

in your code, you actually passed already the name in your parent class' constructor in this line.

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super(Player, self).__init__(name,**kwargs)

so no need to do this. just remove this line.

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self.name = name

tbh, I don't know why it's happening as I am not that *very* knowledgeable about how renpy works behind the curtains. but removing that line should solve the issue.

[hapciupalit]

in your code, you actually passed already the name in your parent class' constructor in this line.

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super(Player, self).__init__(name,**kwargs)

so no need to do this. just remove this line.

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self.name = name

tbh, I don't know why it's happening as I am not that *very* knowledgeable about how renpy works behind the curtains. but removing that line should solve the issue.

You're a gem. Thank you very much! It works perfectly now!