[SOLVED] Do I need the GUI.rpy file for anything?

[felsenstern]

Hiya,

after battling around with styles, definitions and re-definitions for weeks never knowing why something aligns strangely or where this or that background is coming from, I translated all gui definitions in all my rpy files into respective settings i.e.:

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style default:
    properties gui.text_properties()
    language "unicode"
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style default:
    color '#fffa'
    font 'SourceSansPro-Regular.ttf'
    size 28

and so on. I also already removed the gui.rpy file from my project and my game and all screens seemed to work fine without it, but since I am not entirely sure, I wanted to ask you guys if I can safely remove the gui.rpy file after translating and removing all gui definitions from the rest of my rpy files (the ones that are inside of the game folder)? Or if it's needed somehow by any Ren'py system things?

And if I may ask a second question here, I did almost the same with all the predefined images an I'm also about to delete the UI folder.

[rayminator]

No you don't need it as long as you have your own style template on a different rpy file for the stuff you are using

renpy only needs option.rpy

[felsenstern]

I really hope this works. It's unbelievable how hard it was to find every setting and how many nights I've spent digging through the source-code for the last little pieces. While I understand that this engine is free and open source, I can't understand why the creators are moving forward and adding features while cleaning the recent versions and making them a bit more transparent, would allow users to achieve so much more, who're often either giving up on their ideas or a lot of functionality of this engine while using strange workarounds, full of frustration after wasting weeks of trial error to no avail. Quite often even moving to another engine as I noticed after following several projects of people that asked unsolved questions here.

Just to be not ungrateful: I understand that this engine is free and open source, and driven by positive thoughts of contributing and sharing. So all my criticism aside, thanks a lot for providing this engine!