RenPy Beginner - Questions

[webmasterjunkie]

Hi All,

Working on whether or not I can create a VN. I am just running into things that don't make sense. Hoping this can be a place I ask some pretty basic questions and get some guidance on. Probably the first hiccup I am seeing is around OOP in my code. I am just working on functionality bits to ensure I can build the VN I am thinking about. I am creating an "Actor" class:

### Actor Object
init python:
    class Actor:
        def __init__(self, character, name, relationship, affection = 0):
            self.character = character
            self.name = name
            self.relationship = relationship

        def affectionUp(self, amount):
            self.affection += amount
            renpy.notify(self.name + " liked that!")

        def affectionDown(self, amount):
            self.affection -= amount
            renpy.notify(self.name + " will remember that!")

I have a pretty basic statement for it that looks like this:

define mel = Actor(
    Character("Melissa", who_color = "#213fe9"),
    "Melissa",
    "Neighbor"
    )

This all works fine up until here:

    mel.character "[mc.name], do you like me?"
    menu:
        "Yes":
            $ mel.affectionUp(1)
            mel.character "Thanks!"

        "No":
            $ mel.affectionDown(1)
            mel.character "Ouch"

RenPy tosses me this:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/story/intro.rpy", line 28, in script
    $ mel.affectionUp(1)
  File "game/story/intro.rpy", line 28, in <module>
    $ mel.affectionUp(1)
AttributeError: 'Actor' object has no attribute 'affectionUp'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/story/intro.rpy", line 28, in script
    $ mel.affectionUp(1)
  File "C:\Program Files\RenPy\renpy\ast.py", line 823, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "C:\Program Files\RenPy\renpy\python.py", line 1178, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/story/intro.rpy", line 28, in <module>
    $ mel.affectionUp(1)
AttributeError: 'Actor' object has no attribute 'affectionUp'

Windows-10-10.0.22631 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.2.3.24061702

Anyone have any insight into what could be causing this? I have checked my indentation but I am using all spaces and indented as needed I think.

 

[webmasterjunkie]

Disregard. Seems VS Code was creating a running cache of my files and RenPy wasn't getting my latest version. Mod can delete post if they like!

 

[osanaiko]

"define" keyword is for constants that will not change. So when you did "define mel = Actor(...)" it's not going to do what you intend because later when you save games the changes to the object properties won't be persisted, which can lead to some confusing bugs.

tl;dr: Should use "default mel = Actor(...)"