Ren'Py 6.14 Released

[jack_norton]

Anyway cheers to Pytom and the other contributors for their efforts! I'm not complaining or bashing, just reporting the bugs as I find them. I think maybe will have to release Loren still with 6.13 since I wanted to have the beta test finish this week but that doesn't mean I'm not eager to use the new awesome features

[PyTom]

Just FYI to everyone, I'm reading all these bugs and plan to get a 6.14.1 out this week that deals with them.

The Ren'Py updater won't work - as a user - when the game is installed to Program Files. You need to make your installer install to program files if you expect the updater to work.

[jack_norton]

In my case I was just using the "all OSes combined zip" when those Windows XP users had the problem. Myself I was able to always update fine, sometimes needed to run it two times and the second time worked (this even for the renpy launcher).

[backansi]

Thanks for the huge update I've just moved my on-going projects to 6.14 and it works fine but I have a favor to ask.
When I build a distribution with files have non-ascii file names, an exception occurred which I can hardly understand at first.

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 827, in script
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 830, in python
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 317, in python
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 412, in python
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 408, in python
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 408, in python
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 394, in python
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xbd in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

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

Full traceback:
  File "E:\renpy-6.14.0-sdk\renpy\execution.py", line 266, in run
  File "E:\renpy-6.14.0-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 646, in execute
  File "E:\renpy-6.14.0-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1159, in py_exec_bytecode
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 830, in <module>
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 317, in __init__
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 412, in scan_and_classify
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 408, in walk
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 408, in walk
  File "game/distribute.rpy", line 394, in walk
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xbd in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.14.0.350
Ren'Py Launcher 6.14.0.350

It would be nice if the message could be intelligible. *_*

[PyTom]

You can't build a distribution with non-ascii filenames, as non-ascii filenames aren't supported by the zip format.

That being said, I agree that the error message here could be a lot more useful.

[AxemRed]

...non-ascii filenames aren't supported by the zip format.

The ZIP format supports UTF-8 just fine, it's just that some software *cough* Windows *cough* ignores the UTF-8 flag.

[PyTom]

Fair enough - it didn't support it the last time I checked, but it's been a while since I last checked. That being said, if common software like Windows doesn't support utf-8, then it's probably best to just stick with ASCII filenames for the time being.

[NoJoker]

Some updates on my problems:

When I try to create a new game this happens:

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/new_project.rpy", line 52, in script
  File "game/new_project.rpy", line 64, in python
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xdc in position 37: ordinal not in range(128)

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

Full traceback:
  File "E:\Programme\renpy-6.14.0-sdk\renpy\execution.py", line 266, in run
  File "E:\Programme\renpy-6.14.0-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 646, in execute
  File "E:\Programme\renpy-6.14.0-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1159, in py_exec_bytecode
  File "game/new_project.rpy", line 64, in <module>
  File "ntpath.pyo", line 108, in join
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xdc in position 37: ordinal not in range(128)

Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.14.0.350
Ren'Py Launcher 6.14.0.350

When I click ignore, I can choose the theme but when I continue, the game is not there.

Launching a project works just fine.

[PyTom]

The bug that happens is: if you wait to see the screen appear, and then rollback, a new hearts is added (in practice the various flirt += 1 lines). Like I get to 2, rollback, shows 3, then I rollback again and shows 4 and so on. I can get to the max value simply using rollback!

Jack, can you extract this from Loren RPG, or at least make it into something that I can get to in less than ten clicks, and then upload that somewhere where I can get to it?

I'd like to try to figure out what's going on here, but I don't have time to try to find a bug in a huge game.

EDIT: Also, I've fixed what I think is the root cause of all of the ascii decoding errors. (Which was treating the projects directory as a binary string, rather than unicode.)

[jack_norton]

Yes mylord!
I managed to make it very simple, and uploaded the same identic code built with the old 6.13 just to show that before was working:
http://www.winterwolves.net/heartsbug-old.zip (6.13)
http://www.winterwolves.net/heartsbug-new.zip (6.14)
in practice you see the hearts appearing on screen. If you do rollback, on the old version correctly doesn't add a new hearts, in the new one it does, like if the rollback didn't do what it was supposed to.
Also, with the new vesrion I got the message again:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Intel 2120\Downloads\renpy-6.14.0-sdk\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 228, in bootstrap
  File "C:\Users\Intel 2120\Downloads\renpy-6.14.0-sdk\renpy\main.py", line 365, in main
  File "render.pyx", line 91, in renpy.display.render.check_at_shutdown (gen\renpy.display.render.c:1473)
Exception: 10 Renders are alive at shutdown. This is probably a memory leak bug in Ren'Py.

[PyTom]

Jack's found a doozy of a bug.

Please hold off releasing games with 6.14 until I fix it.

[Takanashi]

Any rough idea of when will 6.14.1 be released?

[PyTom]

When it's done.

The last big open issue is that zsync is broken on Windows XP - I need to figure out what's wrong and fix it before I can release.

[Takanashi]

Oh okay Tom, thanks! Sorry if it sounded like I was rushing you^^;

Did you had time to check the videoplayback issue that I reported? I've tried it in other computers and I'm also having the issue.

[PyTom]

I think video playback has been fixed.

EDIT: Sorry for being a bit snarky in these last few posts. I'd just spent the past 8 hours - not including time spent sleeping - trying to track down the bug that was preventing zsync from working on windows XP. I've since solved it - turns out that I spent 8+ hours to make a 1-bit change. And now I'm just going to take a few more minutes to qualify 6.14.1 and get it out the door.