Ren'Py Trouble Building Distributions [resolved]

[Tribe]

Seems like something you should be able to google but it's not... Which may make this a stupid question.

When building distributions for my game I select windows/linux and mac. For the second time in a row I've had complaints that the mac version isn't playable.
Can anyone tell me if I need a mac to build a mac distribution? Or what do I need to do?

The second issue is that it removes empty folders when I build distributions. That's cool, but I need those empty folders for players to drop their files into.
The game must loop through these folders to look for any images/animations that the player has added, and the game will crash if a potentially empty folder is missing.
I could put 30+ insignificant files in these folders to keep them from being empty, but I'd prefer a neat solution.

Thank you for your time!

 

[Winterfire]

You need to build for Mac separately, from what I remember, the option for those 3 together was related to itch.io or another market thingie...

 

[GetOutOfMyLab]

For empty folders, you can change this to False:

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For Mac build, I've not had any issues with them (I only have PC).

EDIT:

And this is how I build for PC and Mac:

 

[Winterfire]

For empty folders, you can change this to False:

You must be registered to see the links

For Mac build, I've not had any issues with them (I only have PC).

EDIT:

And this is how I build for PC and Mac:
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Yeah, that's how I used to do it as well.
There was a time when I used the last option as having all 3 in a single one looked handy, but then people told me that was wrong, and switched to those settings.

 

[GetOutOfMyLab]

Yeah, that's how I used to do it as well.
There was a time when I used the last option as having all 3 in a single one looked handy, but then people told me that was wrong, and switched to those settings.

Ah, I've never even tried the last option because I don't do anything for markets currently.

 

[anne O'nymous]

For the second time in a row I've had complaints that the mac version isn't playable.

Regarding this, must be noted that with its version 11, MacOS X past the historical Intel CPU architecture to the ARM one. And officially Ren'Py still do not support the latest. It's possible that it works (it have ARM support for Linux, Android and iOS), but if it's the case, it have never been included in the changelog.

 

[Tribe]

Winterfire
GetOutOfMyLab
anne O'nymous

I just got word that my latest Mac distribution worked.
I was able to easily build the game preserving those empty directories as well thanks to that link.
Thank you all for your help!

(I have to make another post about returning the length of videos now )