[SOLVED] How can I create custom content preferences?

[limpciabatta]

I'd like to add custom content preferences to the Preferences screen in my game, but I'm not entirely sure how I need to code them.
What I want to provide is a menu/list of content topics that are enabled by default and players can click on them to disable them, that way the players can skip past that content in the game without seeing it.

So, for example:

Content Preferences (label)

• Peppers (check button)

• Beaches (check button)

• Dogs (check button)

As a player who doesn't like peppers, I want to disable/skip past the content related to peppers in the game, so I'd click on "Peppers" to disable it.

In screens.rpy, under the preferences screen section, how should I go about coding this? For instance, can I use something like the following:

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textbutton _("Peppers") action Preference("toggle", $ persistent.turnoffpeppers = True)

Or is there some other way I should be going about doing this?


As for the in-game content in the script, would it be safe to assume that I can then use whatever variable I set for the content preference button in the following fashion?

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charactername1 "What did you buy at the grocery store?"

if persistent.turnoffpeppers == True:
	charactername2 "I bought grapes, cheese, and meat."
	jump section_conversationcontinued

charactername2 "I bought grapes, cheese, peppers, and meat."

label section_conversationcontinued:
	#This is where the characters continue their conversation

If not, how should I go about this in the game content?

Thanks very much!

[m_from_space]

I'd like to add custom content preferences to the Preferences screen in my game, but I'm not entirely sure how I need to code them.

It's pretty easy actually. Here is what I do in my project. Let's assume we have a custom setting called "nudity" (for obvious reasons). But don't use Preference(), that's for Renpy internal preferences.

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# create a default value for that persistent variable
default persistent.nudity = False

screen preferences():
    tag menu
    
    # show a check button for that specific variable
    textbutton "Show Nudity" action ToggleField(persistent, "nudity") style_prefix "check"

In game:

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label start:
    if persistent.nudity:
        show eileen nude
    else:
        show eileen

[limpciabatta]

Thanks a bunch, it looks like that did the trick! Marking this as solved, I really appreciate your assistance on this!