How to prevent players from going back

[Sakura02]

I wasn't sure how to do a search if this was asked already.
Is there a code to prevent users from using arrow keys to go back in the dialogue?
Or to have a scene only been once.
Thanks

[luminarious]

Please don't do this. Thank You!

-- a player.

[Lotus]

Please don't do this. Thank You!

-- a player.

I lol'ed. You could always make a save for that spot in the game if you're paranoid of messing up.

I wasn't sure how to do a search if this was asked already.
Is there a code to prevent users from using arrow keys to go back in the dialogue?
Or to have a scene only been once.
Thanks

Does this thread help any? c: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... ck#p112729 I just tried it with my game and it works for me.

I added

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config.hard_rollback_limit  = 0

to an init block in my options.rpy file.

[papillon]

It's a common ongoing argument, you can find tons of threads on the subject, where authors want to stop people rolling back in order to preserve the purity of something or other, and players are rather annoyed about it.

Rolling back isn't just about wanting to change your mind and make a different choice, it's also about "oops, I accidentally double-clicked". It also tends to irritate people that you're intentionally taking features away that they want to use, because you don't want to use them.

There are times where it makes sense, but expect a lot of grumpypants.

[Greeny]

It's not "taking a feature away" so much as "not putting the feature in in the first place", in my opinion.

[Anima]

That's not really possible, since it's a standard Ren'Py feature.

[SleepKirby]

A few possibilities:

(1)

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    config.rollback_enabled = False

Disables rollback completely, so that the player can't go back to previous dialogue at all. This gets the same effect as setting config.hard_rollback_limit to 0 (as suggested earlier), though un-enabling rollback like this might be more intuitive.

(2) If you only want to disable rolling back past specific points in your game script, then you can use

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    $ renpy.block_rollback()

at each of those points.

(3) Slightly trickier, but you can do something like automatically disabling rollback after in-game choice menus. If your choice menus are handled by your own custom choice screen, then you can add renpy.block_rollback() to that screen's code. (I haven't tried it myself though, so I don't know the exact details. I know you can also do this without screen language by overriding Ren'Py's default menu handler with your own; it's a hack that should still work now, but it may or may not work in future Ren'Py versions.)

Another trickier thing to try: there's an alternative to rollback, called readback, which lets the player read previous dialogue, but doesn't allow them to "go back in time" in the game. The readback implementation I'm linking here isn't officially supported by the current version of Ren'Py; it was written by forum member delta. But it worked for me after a couple of tweaks or so.

[Sakura02]

Lol thanks Sleep Kirby. For the people freaking out, it's ok I'm not going to do it for the entire game. It's for a mini game I'm making where you can only see the animation once and then remember what was on it.

Now for the

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$ renpy.block_rollback()

What do I need to put in the brackets in order to toggle it off and on?

[Aleema]

You don't put anything in the brackets. Block Rollback prevents the player from rolling back any further than that line. It won't turn off rollback. I suggest you put it after the animation shows.