Ren'Py infinite loop ?

[Deleted member 833183]

I was trying to make conditional statements with if/else for different path choices and now I'am stuck with this error what i'am I not seeing?

 

[Kappuru Games]

Well... as soon as you jump to shout it keeps on jumping to shout. So that is pretty much an infinite loop.

 

[79flavors]

Same with the label Wait:

Usual convention would be to use the menu itself as a label and jump back to that, if you absolutely need to.

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Hopefully something in there will be more or less what you are looking for.

 

[f95zoneuser463]

You have two infinite loops in your script that raise this exception.

label wait:
    jump wait

label shout:
    jump shout

Not sure what you are trying to do. If you want a choice to be visible based on a condition it should look like this:

$ allow_shout = False      # declare variable
menu:
    "wait":
        jump wait
    "shout" if allow_shout == True:
        jump shout

label wait:
    "waiting ..."
    "Code is more readable if long dialogues are not placed inside indented menu-choices."
    jump continue_story

label shout:
    "LOOOOUD NOISE !!!"
    jump continue_story

label continue_story:
    $ del allow_shout     # delete variable
    "... and at the end everybody died in pain. *roll credits*"

Usual convention would be to use the menu itself as a label and jump back to that

Damn, I did not even know that using a menu as label was possible. I've always placed custom label before the menu if I wanted to jump back.

edit: forum seems to ignore custom-color-tags code is suppose to be green, only works in preview

 

[Penfold Mole]

edit: forum seems to ignore custom-color-tags code is suppose to be green, only works in preview

Im pretty sure that code tags will disable any kind of BBCode. It's what they're for. That they're working in the preview could be a bug though

 

[anne O'nymous]

Though, if you really want to start getting more complex, then you could use something more like this...

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This is a little more involved.
Menu options for "Wait" and "Shout" are only shown if the menuopt1 and menuopt2 variables are set to True.
Initially that's true for both.

This can be done in a more simpler way, by using the set property of the menu statement.

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Ren'py will automatically use the myMenu01 list to store the chosen options and decide if one should be displayed or not.

This don't invalidate the fact that you can still condition the option, and you can also have a condition based on the said list :

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[79flavors]

This can be done in a more simpler way, by using the set property of the menu statement.

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Ren'py will automatically use the myMenu01 list to store the chosen options and decide if one should be displayed or not.

Ohhhh... I like that.
I'm not entirely sure I understand WHY it works... but I can fix my ignorance by typing it in and opening the console.
Cheers.