[Help] Renpy game to HTML5?

[Dingieberry]

Hello there, total renpy noob here. How can I convert/export my renpy game to html5? I've tried to 'Build and Open in Browser' but keep getting this error 'Exception: Movie(channel='movie') doesn't work on mobile when config.hw_video is true. (Use a different channel argument)'?

How can I resolve this? I really want to have the video/movie playback in the web game. If I set 'define config.hw_video = False', I can run the game but the video just doesn't appear, which isn't what I want, I want the videos to play in the web game. Here's the screenshot of the error:



Any help would be appreciated!

[Imperf3kt]

On mobile devices, movies are limited to fullscreen, so you can't use the Movie() method, instead you'll need to use the renpy pythonic method.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.ht ... e_cutscene

[Dingieberry]

On mobile devices, movies are limited to fullscreen, so you can't use the Movie() method, instead you'll need to use the renpy pythonic method.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.ht ... e_cutscene

Thanks for your reply! If I only want to run my game in HTML5 on computer and not on mobile devices, do I still have to use the pythonic method?

[Imperf3kt]

I only assumed you were trying to access it via a mobile device due to the error message you received, but that does not seem to be the case.
There should be no need to use the pythonic method in this case, but as I have never used the beta web export, I am unable to say why you are receiving this error.

Sorry I cannot be of more assistance.

[PyTom]

At least right now, the HTML5 build doesn't support video.

[Dingieberry]

I only assumed you were trying to access it via a mobile device due to the error message you received, but that does not seem to be the case.
There should be no need to use the pythonic method in this case, but as I have never used the beta web export, I am unable to say why you are receiving this error.

Sorry I cannot be of more assistance.

No worries at all, thanks so much for your help nonetheless!

[Dingieberry]

At least right now, the HTML5 build doesn't support video.

Ah I see, no worries, thanks for the reply!

[Dingieberry]

Hello again! I've tried to 'Build and Open in Browser' and was given this link http://127.0.0.1:8042/index.html but I'm only able to open it in my computer, my friends aren't able to access the game via the link when I sent it to them. What am I doing wrong? Is there any way other people can play it using the link when I build and open in browser?

I have also tried using the 'Build Web Application' but when I extracted the game and tried to run it, I keep getting this error in the screenshot:

[Oazu]

127.0.0.1 is the default local host ip. Meaning it is only for your pc. There are instructions on how to upload your game onto itch.io,newgrounds, etc, here ( https://renpy.beuc.net/ ).
Hosting on game web hosts: zip all the files from the build directory (so index.html, game.zip, index.wasm.gz, etc. are at the top-level of your zip archive).
More precisely: you don't add files to game.zip. You make a new .zip file (e.g. myvisualnovel-web.zip) that contains all the build directory files (e.g. all the files within myvisualnovel-1.0.0-dists/myvisualnovel-1.0.0-web/), including game.zip (in the end, there is a zip in a zip, e.g. game.zip in myvisualnovel-web.zip).
For newgrounds, edit your game again and tick HTML5 Archive (zip) > Edit Properties > Touchscreen friendly otherwise it will be marked as incompatible with mobile.
For itch.io, tick This file will be played in the browser when uploading.