Steam API functions other than achievements?

[munni]

I have successfully shipped games through Steam, with achievements correctly working thanks to the Steam libraries in Ren'py.

Now, I would like to use other functions that the Steam API can offer, such as GetSteamUILanguage and InstallDLC which seem to be part of the steamapi.py module. I have no idea how to call these functions inside Ren'py however.

The only documentation I could find on the matter was:

Steamworks API
When Steam is available, a ctypes-based binding to the Steamworks API is available as achievement.steamapi. The binding is an instance of the steamapi module, as found here, and represents a machine translation of the C++ Steamworks API to Python.

I tried the following:

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	$ achievements.steamapi.InstallDLC("2261480")

But it returned me a "NoneType" error.

Has anyone ever used the Steam API's fuctions?

[Ocelot]

Well, firstly you are doing it wrong. SteamAPI documentation states that

Member functions for ISteamApps are called through the global accessor function SteamApps().

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/ISteamApps

So correct way to do that would be $ achievements.steamapi.SteamApps().InstallDLC("2261480")

Does it work? I have no idea, never used SteamAPI in RenPy.

[munni]

So correct way to do that would be $ achievements.steamapi.SteamApps().InstallDLC("2261480")

Does it work? I have no idea, never used SteamAPI in RenPy.

Ok, I had a try with your example. Unfortunately, I get the same error:

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AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'InstallDLC'

Unfortunately, I'm not savvy enough to figure out what's missing here.

[Ocelot]

It is hard to tell what exactly happens here, but is the steam support installed? Was the Steam integrated properly? Do achievements work?

[munni]

It is hard to tell what exactly happens here, but is the steam support installed? Was the Steam integrated properly? Do achievements work?

I just checked: indeed the Steam libraries are installed. I'm using Ren'py 7.6.0 and 8.1.3, which I'm working with currently. Both versions were used to ship games whose achievements were working properly for Steam users.