"expected ':' not found." - Help? .3.

[shadow190]

Hi!

I'm using a MacBook Pro and have the latest version von Ren'Py installed.
Currently I'm working on my first real VN... ^^
And hope that you can help me, I would appreciate it very much! =)

The Error-Messages:

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On line 131 of /Users/Shad/Downloads/renpy-6.10.2/Games/Kidnapping Love/game/script.rpy: expected ':' not found.
label talk boy:
           ^

On line 172 of /Users/Shad/Downloads/renpy-6.10.2/Games/Kidnapping Love/game/script.rpy: expected ':' not found.
label talk girl:
           ^

On line 213 of /Users/Shad/Downloads/renpy-6.10.2/Games/Kidnapping Love/game/script.rpy: expected ':' not found.
label good talk boy:
           ^

On line 335 of /Users/Shad/Downloads/renpy-6.10.2/Games/Kidnapping Love/game/script.rpy: expected ':' not found.
label good talk girl:
           ^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.10.2e

The lines in the script:

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    menu:
        "Male."
        jump boy

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    menu:
        "... Won't do that."
        jump murder boy

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    menu:
        "... Won't do that."
        jump murder girl
        
        "... Will do it."
        jump talk girl

label talk boy:

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    menu:
        "I'll just be \"nice\" to him..."
        jump good talk girl
        
        "I'll show him who's the boss!"
        jump bad talk girl
        
label good talk boy:

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    jump next day boy
    
label good talk girl:

I'm sorry that I couldn't write it in a better way... ^^°

[Jake]

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On line 131 of /Users/Shad/Downloads/renpy-6.10.2/Games/Kidnapping Love/game/script.rpy: expected ':' not found.
label talk boy:
           ^

I'm pretty sure this is because label names can't have spaces in, although the documentation helpfully doesn't mention this. Try replacing them with underscore (_) characters instead, so that:

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label talk boy:

becomes:

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label talk_boy:

and

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jump talk boy

becomes:

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jump talk_boy

[Gumaster]

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    menu:
        "Male."
        jump boy

is missing, (exactly as the error log says xD) a ":"
So it becomes

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    menu:
        "Male.":
        jump boy

and yes, you can't have spaces in the code for labels and whatnot, (files names are fine, like "Pictures/first cg.jpg" I think)

Edit: Ah crap, sorry, it was answered already in your other post >.<
Disregard me~

[shadow190]

Thank you very much you two

My game is working now just fine.

But I still have a problem...

How do I get a black screen without using the "hide"-command?

Is it like this?

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init:
image black = "#00000"

And then writing somewhere:

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label bla:
scene black with fade

?

Because it didn't work, when I tried that.

[Spiky Caterpillar]

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init:
    image black = Solid('#000') 

label start:
    scene black with dissolve

should do what you want.

AFAIK '#00000' is an invalid colour - you want a six-digit '#000000' or three-digit '#000'.

[shadow190]

Awww, thx... I know, that I'm a noob, but someday, I'll sure be better. =)

EDIT:
Hah, now it showed me this... ^^

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On line 4 of /Downloads/renpy-6.10.2/Games/Kidnapping Love/game/script.rpy: image statement does not expect a block. Please check the indentation of the line after this one.
image black = Solid('#000000')
                              ^

On line 30 of /Downloads/renpy-6.10.2/Games/Kidnapping Love/game/script.rpy: scene statement does not expect a block. Please check the indentation of the line after this one.
scene black
           ^

EDIT 2:

To be honest, some things just don't seem to work. I checked the tut - it SHOULD work.

I can't use images as scenes or a .wav-File as a soundeffect, I have this failure I already explained with the black (btw., I also tried it with

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image black = Solid("#000")

)
...

._____. This is rly depressing!

[duanemoody]

in your init.rpy:

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image bg black = "#000000"

In your script:

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scene bg black with fade

Try this instead. I don't know why you're trying to use Solid. The important thing to understand about images in Ren'Py is the concept of labels and tags. The fact that Python likes using spaces where other languages would normally use periods to define a relationship between two things is probably your biggest conceptual hurdle here.

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image emily sad = "images/emily_basic/emily_basic_sad.png"
image emily happy = "images/emily_basic/emily_basic_happy.png"
image bg penned_mono = "images/pennedmono.jpg"
image bg black = "#000000"

'emily' is a label. 'sad' is a tag. The idea is that Ren'Py is keeping one emily sprite object on the screen and the tag tells Ren'Py which emily image to display when you call it with show (or some other transformation). Likewise, you only have one background on the screen at any given time (bg) and the label tells Ren'Py which background you wish to use.

If you didn't have labels and tags, you could unintentionally have multiple overlapping emily sprites on the screen simultaneously instead of one replacing another.

[shadow190]

Thx. =)

Now it shows me this xD

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On line 23 of /Users/Shad/Downloads/renpy-6.10.2/Games/Kidnapping Love/game/script.rpy: scene statement does not expect a block. Please check the indentation of the line after this one.
scene bg black with fade
                        ^

In the script it looks like this:

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    menu:
        "Male.":
            jump b
        
        "Female.":
            jump g

        
label b:
scene bg black with fade

    b "Hey! Let me go! We didn't do anything to you!"

[Jake]

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label b:
scene bg black with fade

    b "Hey! Let me go! We didn't do anything to you!"

Indent the line starting 'scene' to match the line starting 'b'.

Basically, Python (and Ren'Py) uses indentation to determine dependent blocks of code - so much like the way that the script that gets run for a particular menu item is indented one level further than the menu choice, the code which gets run inside a particular label needs to be indented one level further than the label itself.

What you've actually got here at the moment is a completely empty label 'b' (because there's no lines following it which are indented further) followed by a line of script which sets the 'scene'... then an indented block which is dependent on the scene command. But the scene command doesn't allow dependent blocks of code, it's not a control structure like an 'if' or a 'menu' and Ren'Py doesn't know what to do with the indented block, so it's throwing the error.

[shadow190]

*____* Aaaaah!


Thank you so much for your help!


I think that's everything... ^^