Ren'Py 6.14 Released

[Code Monkey]

PyTom, So sorry for not getting back to you earlier! Got swamped with a lot of work and I couldn't find any examples on what you said so I just tried stuff...

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renpy.arguments.register_command('--args', parse_args)

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def parse_args():
        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(False)
        
        parser.add_argument('--arg', dest='args', default=[], action='append',
                  help='Append an argument to a list that can be accessed as config.args.')
        args = parser.parse_args()
        
        config.args = args.args

The thing is, how can you register the command before the game gets executed? I tried this code in some init blocks and ran it but still got the same error. Hate to be a bother but some guidance would be appreciated.

By the way thanks for everything. You've done a lot of work and made some big improvements on 6.14. It's awesome! And the video works great!

Oh and we are using arguments because we use an external gui to login users to our servers and then use their credentials in the game as well.

[crimsonnight]

Hi,

I've just updated and everything was running fine previously. Now when I launch my project I get the following message:


I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

After initialization, but before game start.
Exception: DirectSoundCreate: No audio device found

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

Full traceback:
File "C:\Users\gwilde\Downloads\renpy-6.14.1-sdk\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 228, in bootstrap
File "C:\Users\gwilde\Downloads\renpy-6.14.1-sdk\renpy\main.py", line 331, in main
File "C:\Users\gwilde\Downloads\renpy-6.14.1-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 1132, in __init__
File "C:\Users\gwilde\Downloads\renpy-6.14.1-sdk\renpy\audio\audio.py", line 596, in init
File "sound.pyx", line 161, in pysdlsound.sound.init (gen\pysdlsound.sound.c:2709)
File "sound.pyx", line 61, in pysdlsound.sound.check_error (gen\pysdlsound.sound.c:762)
Exception: DirectSoundCreate: No audio device found

Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.14.1.366
Always The Same Blue Sky... 0.5

(The same message occurs when trying to launch the tutorial)

How do I rectify this? Thanks

[PyTom]

Code monkey, an example of a new command is the distribute command in the launcher. Here's the code for it:

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init python:

    def distribute_command():
        ap = renpy.arguments.ArgumentParser()
        ap.add_argument("--destination", "--dest", default=None, action="store", help="The directory where the packaged files should be placed.")
        ap.add_argument("--no-update", default=True, action="store_false", dest="build_update", help="Prevents updates from being built.")
        ap.add_argument("project", help="The path to the project directory.")
        ap.add_argument("--package", action="append", help="If given, a package to build. Defaults to building all packages.") 

        args = ap.parse_args()

        # ...

    renpy.arguments.register_command("distribute", distribute_command)

This can be run with:

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./renpy.sh/exe <path-to-launcher> distribute <path-to-game> <other-arguments>

In general, Ren'Py now expects the command line to be of the form:

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renpy.sh/exe <path-to-game> <command> <arguments>

Crimsonnight,

This is the sort of error you'd get if you don't have drivers for your computer's sound card. It's only an error in developer mode, it's automatically hidden when it comes time to play the game.

While the best way to suppress it is to fix your computer, you could also work around it by adding:

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init python:
    config.debug_sound = True

to your game.

[Code Monkey]

I tried this

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def parse_command():
        parser = renpy.argument.ArgumentParser()
        
        parser.add_argument('--arg', dest='args', default=[], action='append',
                  help='Append an argument to a list that can be accessed as config.args.')
        args = parser.parse_args()
        
        config.args = args.args

renpy.arguments.register_command('parse', parse_command)

I tried different combinations of passing the args but alas could not get it to work =(.
Does this work after the game is already built, without passing the path to renpy?

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game.exe parse --arg Moo --arg Bahh

[peacetomomo]

Hi Renpy. I downloaded your older version of this program a few months ago, and used it with no problems. When my computer broke down and I got a new hard drive this week, I tried downloading Renpy again. I was excited to see that there is a new version of Renpy, and I downloaded it. Then I opened the app and saw something I was completely unfamiliar with >.< So I looked around and expected the options under "Edit File" to be the place where I edit a script. When I clicked any of those options, this message showed up: "An exception occured while launching the text editor. WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified. This may have occured because Java is not installed on the system." (By the way, "occurred" has been spelled wrong on that message.)

So I went online and downloaded Java, installed the program, and waited eagerly for Renpy to work. I installed, removed, and re-installed Java about 7 times. Still, the program showed the same message telling me to install Java. I think I might be doing something wrong...

Is it possible to download the older version of Renpy on this site? http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/quickstart.html That was the one I used, and I never had any problems with jEdit and whatnot.

[Jake]

Is it possible to download the older version of Renpy on this site? http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/quickstart.html That was the one I used, and I never had any problems with jEdit and whatnot.

While I expect it's possible to get the newest release working on your system, you can get to all the old releases of Ren'Py here:

http://renpy.org/release_list.html

[peacetomomo]

Is it possible to download the older version of Renpy on this site? http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/quickstart.html That was the one I used, and I never had any problems with jEdit and whatnot.

While I expect it's possible to get the newest release working on your system, you can get to all the old releases of Ren'Py here:

http://renpy.org/release_list.html

Thank you for that link (: It had just what I wanted. But my problem still remains I downloaded renpy version 6.12.2 (I think it's the exact same one I downloaded a few months ago) and the first thing I did was to try to make a new project. It didn't work for several tries, but I kept trying to make a new project until finally one worked o-o So I clicked "Edit Script" to start writing, but lo and behold, this message showed up:
"Error
Launching the editor failed.

Return"

I'm starting to find this a bit funny ;D That's weird, isn't it? I'm so confused about my own computer @__@ This has never happened before D:

[Jake]

I downloaded renpy version 6.12.2

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"Error
Launching the editor failed.

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To be honest, it does sound more like there's something wrong with your Java runtime installation than anything. Naturally, I blame Oracle. ;-)
Since you've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling, have you tried running JEdit directly? You can find it inside the directory you installed Ren'Py into, in a directory called 'jedit' - try running jedit.exe and see if that works on its own.

As it goes, when you tried the latest version of Ren'Py, did you try changing your editor preference (in preferences in the bottom right, then the middle of the left column) to Editra, which doesn't use Java?

[peacetomomo]

I downloaded renpy version 6.12.2

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"Error
Launching the editor failed.

Return"

To be honest, it does sound more like there's something wrong with your Java runtime installation than anything. Naturally, I blame Oracle.
Since you've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling, have you tried running JEdit directly? You can find it inside the directory you installed Ren'Py into, in a directory called 'jedit' - try running jedit.exe and see if that works on its own.

As it goes, when you tried the latest version of Ren'Py, did you try changing your editor preference (in preferences in the bottom right, then the middle of the left column) to Editra, which doesn't use Java?

It woooooorks!! DD Thank you so much ^____^

I changed my text editor to Editra ) I actually tried installing Editra last night, but I guess something went wrong cause an error message showed up (I've been getting a whole lot of error messages lately, haha).

So there's probably something wrong with my Java :< But oh well, I'll get to that some other time ;D

Thanks again (:

[Alex]

Hi folks!
Have troubles using editra. Tried to install it using launcher and didn't succeed, so, I've downloaded it separately. For now I'm able to launch editra and open script files in it manualy, but when I try to edit script file from launcher, it gives me an error (editra is set as text editor):

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#---- Notes ----#
Please provide additional information about the crash here


#---- System Information ----#
Editra Version: 0.6.99
Operating System: Windows XP (build 2600, Service Pack 2)
Python Version: 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
wxPython Version: 2.8.12.0 (msw-unicode)
wxPython Info: (__WXMSW__, wxMSW, unicode, wx-assertions-on, SWIG-1.3.29)
Python Encoding: Default=ascii  File=mbcs
wxPython Encoding: cp1251
System Architecture: 32bit x86
Byte order: little
Frozen: windows_exe
#---- End System Information ----#

#---- Traceback Info ----#
*** Sat Sep 22 23:19:14 2012 ***
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Editra.py", line 1166, in <module>
  File "Editra.py", line 1058, in Main
  File "Editra.py", line 1098, in _Main
  File "ed_main.pyo", line 116, in __init__
  File "ed_main.pyo", line 1519, in SetupToolBar
  File "wx\_controls.pyo", line 3875, in Realize
PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "wxAssertFailure" failed at ..\..\src\msw\tbar95.cpp(726) in wxToolBar::Realize(): invalid tool button bitmap

#---- End Traceback Info ----#

Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it?
Thanks in advance...))

[jack_norton]

From what I remember the version that ships with Ren'Py is a modified one, so I don't think you can download it separately and make it work... ?

[Alex]

Hm, it is said at 6.14 download page that one can download editor separately - I thought it will work with Ren'py...

[MikeConway]

Newbie here. I'm using Ubuntu Linux to run Ren'py and i recently used the update, so I'm at the current version. Only problem is, the only way I can run Ren'py now is with Wine. "Ren'py.sh doesn't work, and instead brings up a text file with the code for that file. I tried some VN's i downloaded just to make sure it isn't my OS, and they all run fine.

I'm still new to Ubuntu and to coding, so please treat me like I'm stupid. I don't want to make any assumptions and screw something up.

Thank you.

[Anima]

You should make sure that the file is set to be executable in the properties.

[MikeConway]

You should make sure that the file is set to be executable in the properties.

Okay, I did that. Had to find where it would allow me to make it executable, but there it was. Checked it. But it still wouldn't run.

In the end, I just downloaded the newest version from the website. Simple solution.