How do I properly change the picture for main menu?

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How do I properly change the picture for main menu?

#1 Post by hopebett »

How can i change the main_menu to my desired picture without changing the game menu.

i follow a youtube video steps and then BOOM the overlay is just gone. i don't know what to do .

the problem is that after changing to my desired picture, it said "couldn't find 'game_menu.jpg' ". then, when i click on the preferences and stuffs like about, load and etc. the desired picture becomes its background like suddenly the grey background thingy just disappear... where did i go wrong?

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Re: How do I properly change the picture for main menu?

#2 Post by DeVNCraft »

hopebett wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:57 am How can i change the main_menu to my desired picture without changing the game menu.

i follow a youtube video steps and then BOOM the overlay is just gone. i don't know what to do .

the problem is that after changing to my desired picture, it said "couldn't find 'game_menu.jpg' ". then, when i click on the preferences and stuffs like about, load and etc. the desired picture becomes its background like suddenly the grey background thingy just disappear... where did i go wrong?
You likely replaced

game_menu.png

instead of

main_menu.png

In your game/gui folder

If thats not the case then in your gui.rpy the files might be reversed if you got the UI from somewhere besides creating it with the ren'py launcher.

You would be looking for the following code in gui.rpy around line 90 in a new ren'py based project.

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define gui.main_menu_background = "gui/main_menu.png"
define gui.game_menu_background = "gui/game_menu.png"
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