conflicting overrides in narration v. custom styles

[duanemoody]

I have a chunk of prologue narrative being spoken by a different speaker than the protagonist. To help emphasize this the text is styled differently using a separate font:

Code: Select all

style.say_dialogue.line_spacing = 10
style.say_thought.line_spacing = 10
    
style.marcus_narration = Style(style.default)
style.marcus_narration.font = "fonts/GoudyBookletter1911.otf"
style.marcus_narration.line_spacing = 2

In the script, Marcus' narration is managed by enclosing the text inside style tags thusly:

Code: Select all

"{=marcus_narration}Matters couldn’t get worse when folks started spreading stories about monsters roaming the scrubland. 
A mountain lion was found gored with its head crushed flat like an elephant’s foot had done it. 
Nearby trees were knocked over like some kid’s toys. Pastor Emmit said the End Times were here and we 
should settle our affairs.{/}"

The resulting text shows the correct font, but the line spacing reverts to style.say_thought.line_spacing instead of style.marcus_narration.line_spacing. Am I overlooking something obvious here? Also, if there's a better method for managing multiple narrator styles I'd be grateful to know.

[luminarious]

Wouldn't making a separate character with along with specifying his text styles differently be easier?

[duanemoody]

But characters have their names at the top and narrators don't. Or am I missing something here.

[JQuartz]

But characters have their names at the top and narrators don't.

Use None if you don't want the names like so:

Code: Select all

init:
    $ d =Character(None)
label start:
    d "This one doesn't have a name."

[duanemoody]

Thanks, but the problem remains that characters based on (None) inherit the narrator line_spacing and while the font can be overridden, the line_spacing cannot.

I'm sort of confused as to why this is.

edit: Characters based on (None) inherit from style.say_dialogue.line_spacing not style.say_thought.line_spacing, but the point remains that I can't override the line spacing.

[JQuartz]

Thanks, but the problem remains that characters based on (None) inherit the narrator line_spacing and while the font can be overridden, the line_spacing cannot.

Use what_line_spacing and font in the Character like so:

Code: Select all

init:
    $ j =Character(None, what_line_spacing=2, what_font="fonts/GoudyBookletter1911.otf")

You can read about the properties here:http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... Characters and here:http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... Properties

[duanemoody]

Bam! This was the solution. Thanks a million and I'll read that section more closely. I'm coming from an HTML/CSS/JavaScript background so my understanding of how to override/overload is a little different from how Python/Ren'Py works.

[luminarious]

You have no idea how many times I've thought to myself: "I wish this was more like CSS.."

[JinzouTamashii]

You can't imagine how many times I've thought to myself:

I wish it was just like singing in English or Japanese or Latin... :/