- Jun 14, 2018
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If not a navigation screen - then what do you plan instead?
It's difficult for us to offer advice about a solution, when we don't know what type of solution you are aiming for.
A common solution is different form of map, where the background is the picture of the current location and the clickable buttons are presented as a toolbar across the bottom (or top) of the screen. In a lot of ways, it's the same solution as a more recognizable map - with a background image and some clickable imagebuttons, only the position of those imagebuttons change.
Or are you thinking of something completely different? Perhaps pressing WASD or arrow keys to move around between locations?
It's difficult for us to offer advice about a solution, when we don't know what type of solution you are aiming for.
A common solution is different form of map, where the background is the picture of the current location and the clickable buttons are presented as a toolbar across the bottom (or top) of the screen. In a lot of ways, it's the same solution as a more recognizable map - with a background image and some clickable imagebuttons, only the position of those imagebuttons change.
Or are you thinking of something completely different? Perhaps pressing WASD or arrow keys to move around between locations?
- Apr 28, 2020
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You could also make parts of background as buttons so you have click on doors or stairs or stuff like that but that will be annoying if there's a lot of going back and forth through empty locations
- Jun 10, 2017
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If I consider your title as being more accurate than your question, what you want is a navigation screen that do not rely on a button bar presenting the different reachable locations. And, as implied by 79flavors, then crabsinthekitchen, it's done in the same way that the navigation screen tutorials you found. The only difference being the position and visual used for the clickable elements.
Python:
screen map():
add map_background
imagebutton:
auto "clickable_element1_%s.png"
xpos x_position_for_this_element
xpos y_position_for_this_element
action Jump( "corresponding_label1" )
imagebutton:
auto "clickable_element2_%s.png"
xpos x_position_for_that_element
xpos y_position_for_that_element
action Jump( "corresponding_label2" )
[And so on as long as there's clickable elements in the map]Anyway, as I said, except for the menu and the old school 3D, all rely on the same mechanism, a background with clickable elements on top.
I'm talking about a free roam events that happens after the regular scenes, just like in games like AOA academy, university of problems or being a dik, without needing a clickeable object or a menu to trigger the locations and the navigation map
- Jun 10, 2017
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I'm surely missing something important here, because I'm really tempted to answer that, if what you want is the map to appear automatically, then you just have to make it appear automatically.
But it can't be that simple... The answer to your question can not be "put
call screen myMap every time you want the map to automatically appear". It's too obvious, too basic ; the first thing someone who is currently developing a game would try.
- Jun 10, 2017
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It's off topic, but since you talk about it, there's not really need to transforms for that. Something like this would already be a strong base:
Python:
screen horizontalScroll():
timer 0.01 repeat True action Function( scroller.update, allBadies, allShoots, player )
key "K_space" action Function( player.shoot, allShoots )
key "K_up" action Function( player.jump )
# Play on negative values for x to make it move outside of the screen
# Strictly speaking would need a too big image for smooth performance, but
# there's way to pass from one image to another.
add scroller.background pos ( scroller.x, 0 )
for i in allBadies:
add i.picture pos (i.x, i.y )
for i in allShoots:
add i.picture pos (i.x, i.y )
add player.picture pos ( player.x, player.y )
init python:
class Scroller( renpy.python.RevertableObject ):
def update( self, badies, shoots, player ):
for i in shoots:
i.update()
for i in badies:
i.update( shoots )
player.update( shoots )
self.x = self.x + 1
class Badies( renpy.python.RevertableObject ):
def update( self, shoots ):
self.tick += 1
if self.tick >= self.speed:
self.tick = 0
self.x += 1
# eventually change the y value is the progression isn't linear
for i in shoots:
if i.x, i.y == COLLISION:
self.destroyed = True
i.shoots.destroyed = True
return
if renpy.random.randint( 0, 10 ) >= 7 :
shoots.append( Shoot( self.x, self.y, toLeft = True ) )
class Player( renpy.python.RevertableObject ):
def update( self, shoots ):
self.tick += 1
if self.tick >= self.speed:
self.tick = 0
self.x += 1
if self.jump
if self.jumpToUp:
self.y += 1
else:
self.y -= 1
if self.jumpY + JUMP_AMPLITUDE >= self.y:
self.jumpToUp = False
for i in shoots:
if i.x, i.y == COLLISION:
self.destroyed = True
i.shoots.destroyed = True
def jump( self ):
self.jumpY = self.y
self.jump = True
self.jumpToUp = True
def shoot( self, shoots ):
shoots.append( Shoot( self.x, self.y, toLeft = False ) )
class Shoot( renpy.python.RevertableObject ):
def update( self ):
self.tick += 1
if self.tick >= self.speed:
self.tick = 0
if self.toLeft:
self.x -= 1
else:
self.x += 1
# eventually change the y value is the progression isn't linear
- May 3, 2018
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this is just what I was thinking about, navigating without a map.
But Jesus Christ, I didn't actually expect you to code a fricken graphics mod. I probably should have known better, knowing you. Coming across side scrolling Ren'py games or games that really took advantage of ren'py's mechanics to make graphically interesting experiences (in a vn engine) is what first turned me to explore ren'py, but since then haven't really looked into using ren'py more than just for VN and prototyping.
Fuck, I got busy with making the phone app in my game because I truly couldn't understand how this shit works and after learning a few things about the screen maps in the phone code I realized how to do it hahaha, it was so fucking simple thanks for the help and the patience dude