Screen overlay

[dasauto1]

How to make a certain screen (it's a stats screen) always be over 3 screens whenever those 3 screens are active? Thanks!

[plastiekk]

In theory, this works with the function "renpy.get_screen". An example could look like the following.

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###############
#Status screen 
screen my_stats():
    zorder 1000     # on top of all other screens
    
    if (renpy.get_screen("my_screen1") and renpy.get_screen("my_screen2") and renpy.get_screen("my_screen3")):
        frame:
            xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5
            vbox:
                text "My Stats..."
    
    timer 0.5 repeat True action [Show("my_stats")] # this will redraw this screen every 0,5 seconds 

###############
# demo screens
screen my_screen1():
    vbox:
        xpos 0.1 ypos 0.1
        text "mytext1"
screen my_screen2():
    vbox:
        xpos 0.5 ypos 0.1
        text "mytext2"
screen my_screen3():
    vbox:
        xpos 0.8 ypos 0.1
        text "mytext3"

###############    
# The game starts here.

label start:
    show screen my_stats                # the screen which is redrawn every 0.5 seconds

    "showing screen1"
    show screen my_screen1              # demo screen 1

    "showing screen2"
    show screen my_screen2              # demo screen 2

    "showing screen3"
    show screen my_screen3              # demo screen 3

    "Showing STATS"                     # because all 3 screens are shown

    hide screen my_screen2
    "Not showing STATS"                 # because one screen is hidden
    
    return

[zmook]

This seems way more complicated that necessary. If you want a screen to appear on top of another screen, just make sure its `zorder` property is higher. You can show the screen any of the usual ways -- if it's something you want to stay permanently visible like a stats screen, just do:

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screen status_overlay():
    style_prefix "status"
    zorder 12
    
    vbox:
            text _("Week [gametime.week], [gametime.day_name], [gametime.hour]h00")
            text _("Credit: $[gk_credit]k")
            if g_population > 0:
                text _("Population: [g_population]")

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# The game starts here.
label start:
    show screen status_overlay()

Variables displayed in the status screen should just update automatically, any time you change their values.

[dasauto1]

Thanks you so much!