Question: Any draw module? [Solved]

[Unin]

I'm looking to overlay basic shapes over a scene, mainly lines and polygons, but need to be able to manipulate them in-scene. I understand this could probably be accomplished with just semi-transparent overlay images, but I'm looking more for that retro heavily-aliased feeling of early 90s games. Is there any way to draw basic vectors over a scene, and change them based on coords?

I know I could probably do it in Pygame, but will I be able to overlay that over a Ren'Py scene, and manipulate it as the scene progresses (would this necessitate a re-render for each change?). Ideally, I'd like to be able animate mid-text/line, but I understand that's probably unfeasible.

[PyTom]

You can do this.

You need to create a Creator-Defined Displayable, and then call the canvas method of a render to get the render object.

[Unin]

awesome, and canvas is just pygame.draw sans surfaces?

edit: found the udd page. thanks a ton. dynamic heads-up-display, here I come.

[PyTom]

awesome, and canvas is just pygame.draw sans surfaces?

That's exactly what it is. Internally, it makes a surface, and draws to it using the pygame.draw functions. (It also sets up code that turns that surface into a GL texture, and adds that texture to a render.)

[Unin]

Wonderful. Is there any way I can add text to the render such that I don't have to manipulate text and my custom expression as 2 separate displayables?

I have a render I made scroll with crop, and want text to scroll with it, however changing the text changes the size of the width of the text displayable, which alters the rate it scales, making a huge heading in terms of alignment. If I could have my text on the same surface as the render, I could align it once and then crop as needed... That or find a way to get text with minwidth to play nice with crop

[PyTom]

Yes.

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class MyDD(renpy.Displayable):
    def __init__(self):
        self.text = Text("Hello, World")

    def render(self, width, height, st, at):
        
        rv = renpy.Render(width, height)

        # Draw the text.
        text_render = renpy.render(self.text, width, height, st, at)
        rv.blit(text_render, (0, 0))
        
        canvas = rv.canvas()
        
        # ...
        
        return rv

[Unin]

Ah, I hadn't tried in the init.That makes sense now. Does that mean all text needs to be hard coded into the class, or is there some way to pass a string into it? can I get away with calling a global string?


Thanks for all your help by the way. Hope I'm not drifting too far outside the scope of the question.

[PyTom]

You can pass in strings using normal Python parameter passing.