Ren'Py 6.12.0 Pre-Released

[PyTom]

I've put up the first pre-release of Ren'Py 6.12.0.

Ren'Py 6.12.0 "Positronic Brain" is a major release of Ren'Py. This release adds suport for the Android platform, allowing Ren'Py games to run on millions of smartphones and tablets. It's possible to package Ren'Py games and distribute them through the Android market.

On all platforms, this release benefits from improved performance in the areas of image prediction and OpenGL rendering. New functionality includes sprites, mouse hover areas, and drag-and-drop. The screen support added in 6.11 has been improved, and new games now use screens by default.

Downloads of 6.12.0 can be found at:

http://www.renpy.org/release/6.12.0

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

The pre-release can also be found in Android Market, under the name "Ren'Py for Android (Beta)". If you have an older version of Ren'Py on your Android device, please uninstall it before installing the new release.

Along with the usual testing, I'd like there to be a couple of "launch titles" for when Ren'Py for Android comes out on the market. I plan to port Moonlight Walks, and I'd be willing to help package other titles if they're mobile-suitable.

[LVUER]

Positron beaaaam (sorry, couldn't resist to say that ^_^ )

Yay! RenPy support Android. Now there will be more (quality) OELVN for cellphones.

[blakjak]

This is great news !

Positronic brain, that reminds me of the Dark Tower saga.

[Snowflower]

YES!
I have an android! this will be perfect

[backansi]

Hooray for Drag&Drop, SpriteManager and Android surpport (even though I have no Android-based device! )

10 minutes later>

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 116-119: ordinal not in range(128)

While loading the script.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

  File "E:\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 276, in bootstrap
  File "E:\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\main.py", line 177, in main
  File "E:\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 494, in load_script
  File "E:\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 168, in __init__
  File "E:\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 379, in load_appropriate_file
  File "E:\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 346, in load_file
  File "E:\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 419, in update_bytecode
  File "E:\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\ast.py", line 150, in get_hash
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 116-119: ordinal not in range(128)

While loading the script.

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.12.0a

I can't even launch my new-created project.

[ziaziany]

Woww, Positronic Brain,huh?
This gonna be cool XD
so excited to see full release of 6.12.0

[backansi]

Hooray for Drag&Drop, SpriteManager and Android surpport (even though I have no Android-based device! )
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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 116-119: ordinal not in range(128)

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.12.0a

I can't even launch my new-created project.

Ahhh, I've figured out. Error is caused by translations.rpy which has never been changed
and this still happens.

[PyTom]

Ahhh, I've figured out. Error is caused by translations.rpy which has never been changed
and this still happens.

I know the problem, it will be fixed shortly.

I'm not sure what your second bug is - I don't have a test case. It looks like an encoding problem to me. Remember, I can only type ASCII, so if you want me to try something in another encoding, I have to get it from somewhere else.

[Eliont]

Please, return utf-8 support.

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sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

now has no effect - game crash with "UnicodeEncodeError".

Also in previous vesion (6.11.2) does't work interaction with overlays - button shown, but ui.interact can't receive return value from button in overlay.

[backansi]

Remember, I can only type ASCII, so if you want me to try something in another encoding, I have to get it from somewhere else.

Ah, you're right. Here it is.

[jack_norton]

Whenever I try to load a savegame from previous version of Renpy I get this crash:

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

AttributeError: 'renpy.display.gltexture.TextureGrid' object has no attribute '__dict__'

While running game code:
 - script at line 819 of renpy-6.12.0-mainline/common/00library.rpy
 - python at line 823 of renpy-6.12.0-mainline/common/00library.rpy.
 - script at line 220 of /home/tom/ab/renpy-mainline/common/_layout/scrolling_load_save.rpym

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 276, in bootstrap
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\main.py", line 320, in main
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\main.py", line 93, in run
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\execution.py", line 259, in run
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\ast.py", line 588, in execute
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\python.py", line 957, in py_exec_bytecode
  File "renpy-6.12.0-mainline/common/00library.rpy", line 823, in <module>
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\game.py", line 297, in call_in_new_context
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\execution.py", line 259, in run
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\ast.py", line 588, in execute
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\python.py", line 957, in py_exec_bytecode
  File "/home/tom/ab/renpy-mainline/common/_layout/scrolling_load_save.rpym", line 229, in <module>
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\loadsave.py", line 272, in load
  File "C:\- indie dev -\games\renpy\renpy\loadsave.py", line 53, in loads
AttributeError: 'renpy.display.gltexture.TextureGrid' object has no attribute '__dict__'

While running game code:
 - script at line 819 of renpy-6.12.0-mainline/common/00library.rpy
 - python at line 823 of renpy-6.12.0-mainline/common/00library.rpy.
 - script at line 220 of /home/tom/ab/renpy-mainline/common/_layout/scrolling_load_save.rpym

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.12.0a

so savegames from previous versions aren't compatible?

[jack_norton]

Planet Stronghold doesn't crash anymore on netbooks! However, I noticed a major graphic bug See the images below, seems like the textures aren't aligned when using Frames:

[DaFool]

The simplest menus like what The Question uses are all borked:

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ValueError: need more than 2 values to unpack

While running game code:
 - python at line 72 of renpy-6.12.0-mainline/template/game/screens.rpy.

Surprisingly, The Question itself still works even if I copy the screens.rpy to its game directory.

Is screens.rpy going to be a regular standard feature of all games, such as options.rpy?

jack >> Actually, my textbuttons are automatically formatted better now! (They were kinda aligned haphazardly before). Maybe that's related to the images being misaligned.

[Aleema]

Humm, I got a similar error to backansi:

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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 4000: ordinal not in range(128)

While loading the script.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Aleema\My Documents\Downloads\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 276, in bootstrap
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Aleema\My Documents\Downloads\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\main.py", line 177, in main
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Aleema\My Documents\Downloads\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 494, in load_script
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Aleema\My Documents\Downloads\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 168, in __init__
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Aleema\My Documents\Downloads\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 379, in load_appropriate_file
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Aleema\My Documents\Downloads\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 346, in load_file
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Aleema\My Documents\Downloads\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\script.py", line 419, in update_bytecode
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Aleema\My Documents\Downloads\renpy-6.12.0\renpy\ast.py", line 150, in get_hash
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 4000: ordinal not in range(128)

While loading the script.

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.12.0a

Not sure if you already fixed that, or what I could do to fix it?

Edit: is that the é character doing that? I have some French in my dialogue. That it?

[Spiky Caterpillar]

Ahhh, I've figured out. Error is caused by translations.rpy which has never been changed
and this still happens.

I know the problem, it will be fixed shortly.

I'm not sure what your second bug is - I don't have a test case. It looks like an encoding problem to me. Remember, I can only type ASCII, so if you want me to try something in another encoding, I have to get it from somewhere else.

Python-in-Ren'Py defaults to treating strings as strings of bytes; you need to use u"(UTF-8 glyphs)" instead of "(UTF-8 glyphs)" to override that, but ATL catches on fire when fed u"(UTF-8 glyphs)".

Using 'show expression Text(u"UTF-8 glyphs")' does work, though, and I've attached a .rpy with testcases.

I'm not sure if defaulting to byte strings is a good thing or a bad thing - making Python-in-Ren'Py default to Unicode might make it easier on users, but I don't know if there are any things lurking deep within that will break if the default string type is unicode.

Edit: is that the é character doing that? I have some French in my dialogue. That it?

Probably. That particular crash is triggered by non-ASCII characters in Python blocks, though it's letting me get away with unicode in dialog and show expression.