Discuss how to use the Ren'Py engine to create visual novels and story-based games. New releases are announced in this section.
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Hi! I am very, very new at coding and I have read though the pages in at Ren'py documentation. My goal is to try and make a dating sim game, as a start at least but I am having quite a lot of trouble understanding what I am doing wrong.
First of all, I downloaded the DSE and I am certain that it is in the right folder. I can run the game without trouble and I have read from other posts that I should be able to edit the scrip and make it more of my own. However, I can't access the script. When I press the button, nothing happens and it's not colored or anything. Am I doing something wrong?
Hello, Vein, and welcome to the Ren'py community! Good luck with your current and future projects
The Editra text editor shipped with Ren'py can sometimes be slow to launch. (don't hurt me pytom) As a consequence, the Renpy Launcher fails at making it open the script files (to use a non-coding analogy, the renpy launcher is asking a second question before having recieved an awnser for its first).
If you do have a situation with
* a 'Can't be opened' Error message from the launcher
* an empty Editra window
simply reclick *All script files* from the Edit panel of the launcher (that's where you started with), and the files should open normally this time around.
