Uhh... Tiny question about NVL mode...

[DrakeNavarone]

I'm not too interested in nvl mode myself, but I was wondering... would it be too difficult to show a different click-to-continue icon before the page is cleared? Like how ONscripter uses an arrow icon for normal text, and a page icon for the last sentence on a page.

[PyTom]

You would need to have a different set of characters for that. The problem here is that we don't actually know that the page is about to be cleared... We don't learn that until the user clicks, and the 'nvl clear' statement executes.

[pheriannath]

That's not too much of an issue to fix DrakeNavarone, just make the last sentence has a ctc 'next page' indicator before every nvl clear. Shame about Ren'Py not supporting NVL click-to-continue now, that arrow gives NVL so much more readability.

Heh, and I'm kind of weirded out now that I've looked at the image pheriannath posted more closely -- one of the characters in the game when I was first experimenting with a novel-mode effect was named 'Kaede' too!

Heh, that was the very first character name I came up with ^_^

[~Po~]

I don't know if this is been fixed with the new release but this is what I did to work around it:

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init:
    # end blinking arrow + NVL Mode
    $ end = False
    python hide:
        def end_overlay():
            if end:
                ui.image(anim.Blink("arrow.png", xpos=760, xanchor=0, ypos=560, yanchor=0))
        config.overlay_functions.append(end_overlay)

Set the xpos and ypos to where you want the arrow and set your image.

Now whenever you want to show it you call it by doing this:

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    $ end = True  # show the arrow
    someChar "Some dialog."
    $ nvl_clear()  # clear
    $ end = False # hide the arrow, this line and the clear line can switch places if you want

Kinda an ugly workaround but it works.

[monele]

Even better : make a new nvl_clear function that calls the original one *and* sets end to False .

[chisa-chan]

Hmm, I guess I'll post the problem, too.

Since I use Ren'Py 5.6.7, the NVL menu seems to be...weird. The menu caption doesn't show evenly with its choices (I'll post the screenshot later). The menu items could be set, but the caption couldn't!

Help me, please

[pheriannath]

~Po~'s solution fixes the problem for an end-of-page indicator, but not an end-of-line indicator... doing such a workaround for that takes mind-boggling work.

I'd rather wait until PyTom's next release.

As for chisa-chan's menu issue - could you give a sample of the code for that menu together with that screenshot?