[solved] start and stop skipping

[Kia]

I'm trying to skip over a bunch of lines but I can't find the renpy code for start skipping

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$ skip(fast = True)
"Some dialogue 1"
"Some dialogue 2"
"Some dialogue 3"
"Some dialogue 4"
$ ui.pausebehavior(0)
"The game starts here but if you roll back, there are a bunch of dialogues"

I think I've seen something for this in the python equivalents page long ago but unfortunately my searches didn't yield any result

[Alex]

...I think I've seen something for this in the python equivalents page long ago but unfortunately my searches didn't yield any result

This will skip lines if they were seen before

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label start:
    "..."
    $ config.skipping = True
    "1"
    "2"
    "3"
    "4"
    "5"
    "6"
    "7"
    $ config.skipping = False
    "?!"

Or, you can make a screen with timer that perform Return() action (simulates player clicks), show it when you like to start skipping and hide later...

[Kia]

Thank you, it works pretty good, the only problem is: the skipping speed isn't instant and `$ config.skip_delay = 0` doesn't seem to have any effect. do you know of any solution?

[Alex]

... do you know of any solution?

I don't know... Kind of idea - to make a screen with timer, that will perform a Return() action (but I haven't tested it).

[Kia]

I was hoping it's something simple that I've missed to not resort to using screens. Thank you Alex

[strayerror]

This will skip lines if they were seen before

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label start:
    "..."
    $ config.skipping = True
    [...]

Alex was on the right track, but if I understand correctly, I think swapping out True for 'fast' will give you the behaviour you're looking for. i.e.

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    $ config.skipping = 'fast'

P.S. You may want to consider blocking rollback after turning on skipping, such that the player can't rollback far enough to again skip forward. ;)

[strayerror]

So it turns out that in order to make this work the way I think you intend is a bit more complex.

Fast skipping is what you want, unfortunately however, that disables recording of rollback data, so rolling back also skips. Not ideal. All is not lost however, as it appears (from my very quick testing, so you probably want to be more thorough) that we can effectively forge the necessary rollback data when we know we're skipping - it's just not very pretty. There may be better ways of doing this, but this should at least get you closer. :)

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label start:
    "..."
    $ config.skipping = 'fast'
    $ renpy.block_rollback()
    "1"
    $ config.skipping == 'fast' and renpy.checkpoint(True)
    "2"
    $ config.skipping == 'fast' and renpy.checkpoint(True)
    "3"
    $ config.skipping == 'fast' and renpy.checkpoint(True)
    "4"
    $ config.skipping == 'fast' and renpy.checkpoint(True)
    "5"
    $ config.skipping == 'fast' and renpy.checkpoint(True)
    "6"
    $ config.skipping == 'fast' and renpy.checkpoint(True)
    "7"
    $ config.skipping == 'fast' and renpy.checkpoint(True)
    $ config.skipping = False
    "?!"
    return

[Kia]

thank you strayerror, `$ config.skipping = 'fast'` is exactly what I was looking for.