Ren'Py Help for building environment in my game

[Parsion]

Hi guys, my game goes well, instead I want the player have the choice to explore every room in the house.

At the beginning at the story, the player has to click on the front door to enter the house.
And then in the house, he can go everywhere just by cliking in areas, like Summertime saga in every house. You want to go upstairs ? click on the stairs, you know what i mean ?

My art is fully 2D art. I'm drawing all the characters and the backgrounds, and i use some real pictures to create the house.

If I can put that gameplay in my game that will be great.

 

[Studio Errilhl]

That's not that difficult. You will need to create imagemaps, or use imagebuttons, to be able to highlight and click parts of the background. When you click, you will load another instance, with new places to click. You can even have a confirm (yes/no) when you click something, to avoid having the user going back and forth if clicking wrong. And you can have off-limit places, like a room the player can't enter, if certain conditions aren't met, and so on.

 

[Parsion]

That's not that difficult. You will need to create imagemaps, or use imagebuttons, to be able to highlight and click parts of the background. When you click, you will load another instance, with new places to click. You can even have a confirm (yes/no) when you click something, to avoid having the user going back and forth if clicking wrong. And you can have off-limit places, like a room the player can't enter, if certain conditions aren't met, and so on.

or can I access to imagemaps/imagebuttons, it's in scripts.rpy ?

 

[Studio Errilhl]

I suggest you read up on Ren'Py - the documentation is a bit shoddy, but you can find it here:

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and I also suggest you take a look at the Lemmasoft forum, where you'll find both quite a bit of useful code and examples, but also people that use Ren'Py a lot, even the creator of Ren'Py. You should be able to find more information there. The link to the forums are:

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[anne O'nymous]

More explictly

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of the documentation. You can also use

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to access Summertime Saga source code and look how they did it. I don't know if they use image map or image button, so search for "Imagebutton" and "Imagemap" on the rpy files.

 

[xort]

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of the documentation.

I was planning on making a city map with this functionality. Saved me some time digging into the docs to find what I needed.