Audio and Drawings

[Rikdo_Osaka]

I have been meaning on making a game but i have two questions that need awsners since i'm not sure about them.

How big do the pics have to be and what formatt?
Can you put character voices?

[DaFool]

The default is 800 x 600 pixels. To save diskspace I usually use hi-quality jpegs for non-transparent images (like backgrounds), and pngs for images that need transparencies (like character sprites).

Of course you can technically set the game to any 4:3 aspect ratio. Some of the others here have used 640 x 480.
You can make the pictures much bigger than 800 x 600 if you plan to pan or zoom them, but I think there is a technical dimension limit at which point they start to crash.

You can add voice in mp3 or ogg format. You play them like any other sound, except as music (which loops).

[Rikdo_Osaka]

Thanks, here's another question if you don't mind awsnering it.

How do i set up the BG and the character in the game?

[DaFool]

init:

image background1 = "background1.jpg"
image character1 = "character1.png"

label start:

scene background1
show character1

This is basically the gist of it. Obviously, some more code may be needed.

My best advice is to download some of the many demos and partitially-complete works in this forum, and look at how people code things. It's usually in the script.rpy within the /game subdirectory.

[PyTom]

DaFool's example was right when he typed it in, but he used quote rather then code, so the indentation is screwy. A similar example is:

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init:
    image bg times square = "times_square.jpg"
    image eileen happy = "eileen_happy.png"

    $ e = Character("Eileen")

label start:

    scene bg times square
    show eileen happy

    e "Remember, nothing is shown until dialogue or transitions take place."

[Rikdo_Osaka]

Another question i forgot to ask.

how do i bring on the audio? How do i set it to go along with the dialogue?

[yummy]

You place your audio file in the game folder, then you simply make it play.
It'd depend on how you want them to play: as a music, as a loop, as a sfx...

If your file name is voice.ogg, you place this code in the label start block:

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$ renpy.sound.play("voice.ogg")
Eileen "Hey! I can even mimick Pytom's voice!"

And remember the wiki, there is a reliable how-to section, with a -nearly- full documentation, a cookbook for special screen effects...

[Rikdo_Osaka]

how do i stop he audio, like when i want to put anothr audio on the next dialogue

[yuirei]

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$ renpy.sound.stop()

[monele]

If you plan to have a lot of voices (one per line), there's an extra for this (voices.rpy in /extras). This should take care of all the playing and stopping