Ren'Py 6.15 Released

[nyaatrap]

It was work, but sometimes there were few mill sec lag time. It might have unnoticeable with good CPU.

[saguaro]

When I switched to 6.15.3 there was noticeable lag in scenes that use ATL cropping (basically all of them). It's usually caused by clicking an imagebutton, but not always, sometimes it lags without user interaction.

I tried using renpy.predict before I show the image, but this does not resolve the issue. I'm not having any lag in 6.15.0 so I will switch back for now, but I'm wondering if there is anything else I can try besides renpy.predict.

[nyaatrap]

Ah yes. I confirmed several lags while moving sprites. I think prediction or memory release is executing in the middle of transform.

[nyaatrap]

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show sprite at animations with wipeleft

It looks when I use sprite change and at transform and with transtion same time, with transition sometimes stops in few mil second.

[PyTom]

Please send me bug replications if you think there's a problem. I can't recommend switching back, as there are a number of bugs in older versions.

[nyaatrap]

Playing my game is the best way to see when problem occur. But it's a commercial game and I've put many complicated code on it. Extracting issues from it is a bit tough thing. I think I should make a new sample game from scratch but I need a few days to do it.
I hope if there is someone who have a simple game with this issue.

[PyTom]

Could people experiencing the problem please check out:

https://github.com/renpy/renpy/commit/a ... 26326169cd

and see if it fixes it for you?

[nyaatrap]

Unfortunately, It seems it doesn't fix it.

It looks this lag occurs even in the middle of single transition, for example:

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scene black with irisout

In the middle of executing the above line in my game, the irisout transition stops 1~2 times each in a few mil secs, and memory usage goes up high (like +50MB). (Of cause, I put many transforms after this code.)

[nyaatrap]

It's sad many people don't update nor try to use available new functions. ;_;
I'm exhorted to make my first commercial game, but I need to fix this issue. I hope someone's help but... ah.. I'm, sleeepy sorry. I need to work tomorrow... byebye.

[PyTom]

Which issue is this? Please let mek now when you wake up.

[Kinsman]

Unfortunately, It seems it doesn't fix it.

It looks this lag occurs even in the middle of single transition, for example:

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scene black with irisout

In the middle of executing the above line in my game, the irisout transition stops 1~2 times each in a few mil secs, and memory usage goes up high (like +50MB). (Of cause, I put many transforms after this code.)

It might be the transforms after the code that are causing the hiccups. Converting ATL code into its runnable form is apparently an expensive operation in Ren'Py - I discovered that while working on my Flash exporter.

[nyaatrap]

Finally done

animation_test.zip

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label start:
    show screen _image_load_log
    scene expression "park.png"
    $renpy.free_memory() #to force prediction occur at the next line
    show black with wipeleft # watch this transition is smooth or not
    ""
    hide black with wipeleft
    show alice smile at left:
        xcenter .1 ycenter .5
    ""
    $renpy.free_memory()  #to force prediction occur at the next line
    show alice blush with move:# watch this transition is smooth or not
        xcenter .9
    show alice sad:
       xcenter .1
    with move
    show alice cry:
        xcenter .9
    with move
    "retrun"
    return

Apparently, a problem is with transition. Image loading is executed in the middle of transition and it's messing up smooth transition.

[PyTom]

6.15.4.320:

* The 64-bit Linux version of Ren'Py is linked against the correct
libraries. Versions 6.14.x and 6.15.0-3 were linked against
incorrect Python libraries.

* In the common case, the python interpreter is no longer locked while
images are preloading. This helps prevent image preloading from causing
framerate problems.

* The new build.exclude_empty_directories variable determines if empty
directories are included in archive files. Previously, this was
undefined, and varied from platform to platform.


The first one, expecially, is a huge bug fix. So please update to the latest version - you can do so easily by clicking "update" in the launcher.

[nyaatrap]

Thanks for the update.
It's a minor matter though, could empty tl folder are excluded? No matter how I set build.exclude_empty_directories, Empty tl folder always exist

[PyTom]

https://github.com/renpy/renpy/commit/d ... 445bcbecdf

is a fix to do this, although I'm not in any rush to release it.