Visible attraction points in dating game?

[Crowley]

Hello! I've looked and looked, but I can't seem to find the answer for my question. I'm currently working on a dating sim (not using the DSE engine, just so you know, because I can't figure out how it would work the way I want it to), and so far I know how to increase and decrease certain points depending on your choices throughout the game. For example, the attraction points for a specific character might go up when you're nice towards them, or decrease if you do things they don't like.

Now, my question is, how do I make these points visible? My mind wanders to the beating hearts in some of the Harvest Moon games - the ones that also change colour and get bigger depending on how much attraction points you have. I'm not sure I would be able to pull that off since I'm not really an amazing coder, so otherwise I was thinking of showing a point bar. Much like health bars, except they increase or decrease depending on your attraction points for a certain character... Yeah, you get it. I'm just tired right now.

I can easily draw the images for these things, but the question is, how would I make this work properly? How can I put, for example, the bar, in a good position and how do I make it change depending on the points?

[JinzouTamashii]

Uh, I saw it in the Cookbook at one point...

Was it covered in the DSE recipes, guys?

[JQuartz]

Much like health bars, except they increase or decrease depending on your attraction points for a certain character...

You can use ui.bar overlay like so:

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init python:
    
    max_love=100
    current_love=50
    show_stats=False
    
    def stats_overlay():
        if show_stats:
            ui.frame()
            ui.vbox()
            ui.text("Love meter")
            ui.bar(max_love,current_love, xmaximum=150)
            ui.close()
                        
    config.overlay_functions.append(stats_overlay)
    
label start:
    $ show_stats=True
    "Game start"
    $ current_love+=10
    "Increase love point"
    $ current_love-=10
    "Decrease love point"

You can read about uis here:http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... _Functions
You can read about overlay here:http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/reference/Overlays
You can read about properties here:http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... Properties

[JinzouTamashii]

Bookmark'd for future reference.

[Crowley]

Thank you kindly, I'll post again if there are any problems.

[Zalkyria]

I went ahead and put that in my date sim, and i got these errors

I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game\script.rpy", line 2: python block expects a non-empty block.
init python:
^

File "game\script.rpy", line 4: expected statement.
max_love=100
^

File "game\script.rpy", line 5: expected statement.
current_love=50
^

File "game\script.rpy", line 6: expected statement.
show_stats=False
^

File "game\script.rpy", line 8: expected statement.
def stats_overlay():
^

File "game\script.rpy", line 16: expected statement.
config.overlay_functions.append(stats_overlay)
^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.14.1.366

[Zalkyria]

nevermind i solved that.

[Ayutac]

Hello! I've looked and looked, but I can't seem to find the answer for my question. I'm currently working on a dating sim (not using the DSE engine

The what? No, seriously, what Dating Sim Engine? Link it please. And oh, I hope it is not so good as mine or my work would be in vain...

[Zalkyria]

Actually what do you do if you have 5 different girls. I'm making a date sim based on Danny Phantom, and I am using 5 bachlorettes. Please help.

[gekiganwing]

The what? No, seriously, what Dating Sim Engine? Link it please. And oh, I hope it is not so good as mine or my work would be in vain...

Here you go. And here is the documentation on how the DSE works. Look it over to see if you understand it, and if you find the code useful. Keep in mind that it was created in 2007 and last updated in 2008.

[Ayutac]

Ohhhhh, that thing. Now I'm relieved since the concept (choose your actions for the day, then do them) is different from mine (DAYWDAYWDAYW do anything you want (as long as you have HP))

[Zalkyria]

Much like health bars, except they increase or decrease depending on your attraction points for a certain character...

You can use ui.bar overlay like so:

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init python:
    
    max_love=100
    current_love=50
    show_stats=False
    
    def stats_overlay():
        if show_stats:
            ui.frame()
            ui.vbox()
            ui.text("Love meter")
            ui.bar(max_love,current_love, xmaximum=150)
            ui.close()
                        
    config.overlay_functions.append(stats_overlay)
    
label start:
    $ show_stats=True
    "Game start"
    $ current_love+=10
    "Increase love point"
    $ current_love-=10
    "Decrease love point"

You can read about uis here:http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... _Functions
You can read about overlay here:http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/reference/Overlays
You can read about properties here:http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... Properties

What about if you have more than one bachlorette?

[15nick]

I had a previous game that used what you mentioned (the Harvest Moon heart thing) and the code's kind of disgusting to look at, but it might help as a springboard. I did a Button in the corner (Mine was an imagebutton but I'll just use Textbutton for simplicity)

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screen love_button:
    textbutton _("Relationships"):
        xalign 1.0
        yalign 0.0
        action Show("Love_meters")

and a screen for it to show:

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screen Love_meters:
    if Y_points < 101:
        $ y_aff = "[y]: [Y_points]/[aff_max]                      {image=blueheart}"
    elif Y_points in range(101,200):
        $ y_aff = "[y]: [Y_points]/[aff_max]                      {image=greenheart}"
    elif Y_points in range(201,300):
        $ y_aff = "[y]: [Y_points]/[aff_max]                      {image=yellowheart}"
    elif Y_points in range(301,400):
        $ y_aff = "[y]: [Y_points]/[aff_max]                      {image=orangeheart}"
    elif Y_points in range(401,499):
        $ y_aff = "[y]: [Y_points]/[aff_max]                      {image=pinkheart}"
    else:
        $ y_aff = "[y]: [aff_max]/[aff_max]                      {image=redheart}"
    #Rinse and repeat for additional love interests
    vbox:
        xalign .5
        yalign .25
        text y_aff:
            size 50
        null height 10
        #Rinse and repeat for additional love interests

These can be in their own separate file or screens.rpy. I like to put it in a separate one personally.

Like I said, kind of juryrigged (especially that big if...else block in the screen. Yuck.) but it works and displays one of six colors of throbbing (unpleasant word) hearts based on your affection with that character (I defined the heart images as Displayables at the beginning of the game to make them throb). The first variable I have there is the name [y], then their affection they have for you [Y_points] that can be added to or subtracted at any point in the game and finally the max affection they could get [aff_max]. All defined somewhere in the script.
If you want bars, it's much easier.

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screen Love_meters:     
    vbox:
        xalign .5
        yalign .25
        text "[y]: [Y_points]/[aff_max]":
            size 50
        bar:
            value Y_points
            range aff_max
            xmaximum 300
        null height 10
        #Rinse and repeat for additional love interests

And to have this button show up simply have this

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show screen love_button

In the script at the very first instance of when you want the player to be able to check their relationship meters. Need to hide it?

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hide screen love_button

and an example in script:

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label start:
$ Y_point = 0
$ aff_max = 500
$ y = "Erik"
show screen love_meters
Y "Love me, why won't you love me abloobloobloo."
$ Y_point += 5

Hope that helps somehow. I'm sure it's not the best or classiest way to do it, but it works and if you just want a helping hand understanding how you could do this it gets the job done.

[Maiden-of-Wolves]

I was so happy to have stumbled upon the code that you presented here, but when I incorporated it into my game there was an error.

The error that the traceback.txt gives me is: "TypeError: 'ScreenLangScreen" object is not iterable"
I've tried looking up what this means -- it seems like something isn't being recalled by the engine, but I'm not sure how to fix that. Do you have any insights?

[xMichi]

I was so happy to have stumbled upon the code that you presented here, but when I incorporated it into my game there was an error.

The error that the traceback.txt gives me is: "TypeError: 'ScreenLangScreen" object is not iterable"
I've tried looking up what this means -- it seems like something isn't being recalled by the engine, but I'm not sure how to fix that. Do you have any insights?

Can you post the code you were getting? Cuz mine worked perfectly. Although I used the bar one, not the hearts one ;o