How To Do Steam Achievements With Ren'py?

[Dollarluigi]

I've been wanting to add Steam achievements to one of my projects and I found a guide here but it didn't work, at all. I'd always end up with errors when launching the project.

[Triority]

What sort of errors ? It works just fine with one simple command

[Dollarluigi]

It'll say stuff like "sayer 'x' is not a valid command".

And what is the command I'm supposed to use?

[Triority]

You need to use $ achievement.grant

It'll say stuff like "sayer 'x' is not a valid command".

Have you got an example of the line ?

[Dollarluigi]

Unfortunately, I do not. I stopped working on it a while ago because I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong and then I had a hard drive failure so I'm gonna have to redownload some stuff whenever I decide to get back to work on this.

[Triority]

Ah, right. Fair enough

If you have the problem again, post the code !

[Dollarluigi]

Okay, I've got the project running fine but I'm very confused as to how I can upload the project to Steam. I've got the game page set up and all that stuff, but I really don't understand how I'm supposed to upload the game's files.

[Triority]

You've got two choices : Upload the file(s) as a ZIP file through the web interface or upload the files via a commandline interface. For the latter, you need to setup two sets of .VDF files that determine where everything goes, and something to run it.

I use a batch file to get everything uploaded

[Dollarluigi]

You've got two choices : Upload the file(s) as a ZIP file through the web interface or upload the files via a commandline interface. For the latter, you need to setup two sets of .VDF files that determine where everything goes, and something to run it.

I use a batch file to get everything uploaded

I couldn't find a way to simply upload the files like that. I did find a guide that brought up the .VDF files but I'm so lost.

[Triority]

I setup something like the following batch file :

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@Echo Building Axiom
..\..\builder\steamcmd.exe +login "" "" +run_app_build_http ..\scripts\app_build_123455.vdf
pause
exit

and the appropriate VDF files :

app_build_123455.vdf
"appbuild"
{
	"appid"	"123455"
	"desc" "The Mansion" // description for this build
	"buildoutput" "..\output\" // build output folder for .log, .csm & .csd files, relative to location of this file
	"contentroot" "..\content\" // root content folder, relative to location of this file
	"setlive"	"" // branch to set live after successful build, non if empty
	"preview" "0" // to enable preview builds
	"local"	""	// set to flie path of local content server 
	
	"depots"
	{
		"123456" "depot_build_123456.vdf"
	}
}

depot_build_123456.vdf
"DepotBuildConfig"
{
	// Set your assigned depot ID here
	"DepotID" "123456"

	// Set a root for all content.
	// All relative paths specified below (LocalPath in FileMapping entries, and FileExclusion paths)
	// will be resolved relative to this root.
	// If you don't define ContentRoot, then it will be assumed to be
	// the location of this script file, which probably isn't what you want
	"ContentRoot"	"C:\sdk\tools\ContentBuilder\content\windows_content\The Mansion (Paid)"

	// include all files recursivley
  "FileMapping"
  {
  	// This can be a full path, or a path relative to ContentRoot
    "LocalPath" "C:\sdk\tools\ContentBuilder\content\windows_content\The Mansion (Paid)\*"
    
    // This is a path relative to the install folder of your game
    "DepotPath" "."
    
    // If LocalPath contains wildcards, setting this means that all
    // matching files within subdirectories of LocalPath will also
    // be included.
    "recursive" "1"
  }

	// but exclude all symbol files  
	// This can be a full path, or a path relative to ContentRoot
  "FileExclusion" "*.pdb"
}

and then just run the batch file (filling in your username and password)

[Triority]

What you were looking for is this screen :

[Dollarluigi]

So how do I make it so the store page will actually download these files? Because all it's doing now is creating an empty folder.

[Triority]

You need to copy all your files (unzip them into a folder) and modify the "ContentRoot" to point to the folder. Once it's been upload (and all other parts completed), it then needs to be checked with Valve to be generally available, but after uploading, the developer account can download it in Steam

[Dollarluigi]

I don't get it.

[Triority]

Steam SDK provides a directory in \tools\ContentBuilder\content. This can have windows_content and perhaps linux_content and maybe mac_content directories as well.

These are where the programs are usually placed ready for uploading, and where you would unzip the build distributions from RenPy