I just made a new game and added in script but this happened

[ItsAPurpleThing]

I got this error in a different game so I made a new one and put the code from the other in this one. Same error. It doesn't make sense given I didn't do anything to any files. I don't even have pictures in yet. I was just testing the code to see if I had the same problem had earlier.

For those curious I ended up making two parts of the narrator's sentence into the name and then dialogue.

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While loading <'Image' u'gui/button/[prefix_]background.png'>:
IOError: Couldn't find file 'gui/button/[prefix_]background.png'.

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

Full traceback:
  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 28, in script
    python hide:
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 814, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1695, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec bytecode in globals, locals
  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 30, in <module>
    ui.interact()
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\ui.py", line 285, in interact
    rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 2492, in interact
    repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 2845, in interact_core
    self.draw_screen(root_widget, fullscreen_video, (not fullscreen_video) or video_frame_drawn)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 1921, in draw_screen
    renpy.config.screen_height,
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 416, in renpy.display.render.render_screen (gen\renpy.display.render.c:6687)
    rv = render(root, width, height, 0, 0)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 685, in render
    surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3321)
    cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 685, in render
    surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3321)
    cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 685, in render
    surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3321)
    cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\screen.py", line 623, in render
    child = renpy.display.render.render(self.child, w, h, st, at)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3321)
    cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 685, in render
    surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3321)
    cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 887, in render
    surf = render(d, width - x, rh, cst, cat)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3321)
    cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\behavior.py", line 707, in render
    rv = super(Button, self).render(width, height, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 1046, in render
    xminimum = max(xminimum, size_groups[size_group].width(width, height, st, at))
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 991, in width
    rend = i.render(width, height, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\behavior.py", line 707, in render
    rv = super(Button, self).render(width, height, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 1101, in render
    back = render(style.background, bw, bh, st, at)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3321)
    cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\imagelike.py", line 254, in render
    crend = render(image, width, height, st, at)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3321)
    cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\image.py", line 476, in render
    return wrap_render(self.target, width, height, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\image.py", line 125, in wrap_render
    rend = render(child, w, h, st, at)
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3321)
    cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2859)
    rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\im.py", line 473, in render
    im = cache.get(self)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\im.py", line 200, in get
    surf = image.load()
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\display\im.py", line 524, in load
    surf = renpy.display.pgrender.load_image(renpy.loader.load(self.filename), self.filename)
  File "C:\Users\Violet\Desktop\renpy-6.99.12.2-sdk\renpy\loader.py", line 543, in load
    raise IOError("Couldn't find file '%s'." % name)
IOError: Couldn't find file 'gui/button/[prefix_]background.png'.

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.12.2.2029
Markimoo 1.0

[Vegeluxia]

This looks like it's trying to reference fodlers, and the image being called just isn't in them...? Unless I'm sorely mistaken.

[xavimat]

EDITED: It's difficult to know what's going on without seeing the code, but I'll make a guess:
Maybe you are using code from the new GUI in a legacy GUI game. So it can't find the images.

Nope. I'm getting this error too in a newly created game, without any change to the script.

[xavimat]

Found the strange behavior:
For some strange reason, when renpy is creating the new project, sometimes it doesn't copy all the needed files in the gui folder.
In "game/gui/buttons" there should be twelve png files. In a test I've made, it copied only 4 of them, and some other folders in "gui" are missing.

Try creating a new dummy project and copying all the gui files generated there in your project.

[ItsAPurpleThing]

Thank you! Copying it over worked