Ren'Py bug?

[UAB Productions]

Lately, I've been trying to run my game, but for some reason unknown to me, now that I'm using a new computer, the videos in the game no longer play correctly. I only see a transparent screen, nothing more than that. Has anyone experienced the same issue?

 

[GNVE]

Could you show the code for the videos? Easiest possibility is that you hardcoded the video location (e.g. C:\renpy project\...\video.mp4)

 

[UAB Productions]

Could you show the code for the videos? Easiest possibility is that you hardcoded the video location (e.g. C:\renpy project\...\video.mp4)

This is how I have the video code, I don't understand what's wrong, it used to work perfectly before.

 

[Deleted member 2282952]

You need to specify the path for each video. /videos/smth/name.format, or whatever folder structure you have.

 

[anne O'nymous]

Since they are webm and you're using a new computer, could it be a question of codex ?


Edit:

You need to specify the path for each video. /videos/smth/name.format, or whatever folder structure you have.

Not necessarily. If the movie is directly in the "images" directory, Ren'Py will find it without need to specify the relative path.

 

[UAB Productions]

You need to specify the path for each video. /videos/smth/name.format, or whatever folder structure you have.

I already tried doing it, it didn't work at all.

 

[UAB Productions]

Since they are webm and you're using a new computer, could it be a question of codex ?


Edit:


Not necessarily. If the movie is directly in the "images" directory, Ren'Py will find it without need to specify the relative path.

The codec is exactly the same, I think I'm going to try changing it multiple times, maybe that could be it.

 

[the66]

did you update Ren'Py too? if so, always read the changelog.
your problem might be:

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File Search Ren'Py will now only look for image files in game/images, rather than all files. To look for all files in game/images, use:

define config.search_prefixes += [ "images/" ]

 

[Winterfire]

Last time I used Ren'Py, people had issues with Webm due to something related to audio... https://f95zone.to/threads/overlord-h-r48-winterfire.36056/post-3964512

Now that I use Unity, people had issues with Webm due to some GPUs not supporting VP9. However, I assume they'd have the same issue with Ren'Py as well.

 

[UAB Productions]

did you update Ren'Py too? if so, always read the changelog.
your problem might be:

You must be registered to see the links

File Search Ren'Py will now only look for image files in game/images, rather than all files. To look for all files in game/images, use:

define config.search_prefixes += [ "images/" ]

Friend, thank you, thank you so much. I just solved that little problem. I really appreciate it.

 

[UAB Productions]

Last time I used Ren'Py, people had issues with Webm due to something related to audio... https://f95zone.to/threads/overlord-h-r48-winterfire.36056/post-3964512

Now that I use Unity, people had issues with Webm due to some GPUs not supporting VP9. However, I assume they'd have the same issue with Ren'Py as well.

Is it worth learning Unity to make visual novels?

 

[GNVE]

In 99% of cases no. Ren'Py is easy to learn and has all the bells and whistles for VN's in one easy package. Also Python on which Ren'Py is based is one of the easiest languages to learn. (Having tried to dabble and failed in a few others). Ren'Py is like Ikea furniture for VN's a flat package that is easy to assemble while Unity is a tree. Sure you can make a lot more things with a tree but it takes more work and is easier to screw up.

 

[osanaiko]

Ren'Py is like Ikea furniture for VN's a flat package that is easy to assemble while Unity is a tree. Sure you can make a lot more things with a tree but it takes more work and is easier to screw up.

That's very poetic. You should consider writing something, like a game script.

 

[rayminator]

some people forget about these two code for video the beginning image and end image
the code that you are using you can use these to get rid of the checker board background

image=None, and start_image=None,

 

[GNVE]

That's very poetic. You should consider writing something, like a game script.

Well my game script writing is a lot less poetic I can tell you...