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Berin, that is really sweet of you to say. Thank you so much!

It really means a lot that no one (so far, lol) is disappointed in me because of the upcoming lack of updates. I will try to fully enjoy my break, and remind myself that those who care about Artificial Selection probably also want what's best for me.

I hope you are looking after yourself as well!

Hi Heiden! It both helps to know, but is also really sad, how common these feelings are among fellow creatives. Part of me will probably never be able to fully give up on my dream, but I think we owe it to ourselves to at least stop making our own lives harder by blaming ourselves for not being able to achieve it.

It's great to hear that your extended time off has brought such an "old" joy back for you! Makes me optimistic that I've made the right choice, too.

Thank you for your kind words, and I'm wishing you all the best as well!

Hi Carrot, thank you for saying that. Honestly, I've also had many crises before this one where I've questioned the point of everything I do, but I somehow always managed to force myself to carry on, business as usual. Having an existential meltdown every now and then almost seemed like another standard part of my routine, and maybe that's what got me to this point......

I'm glad to hear that pausing development during a hard time (if I'm interpreting your words right) has worked for you. Though I can't fully picture it at the moment, it helps to know that, with due time, maybe even that original spark I had 7 years ago will finally come back. Being able to feel that type of pure joy again sounds wonderful.

Thank you again for reaching out, and I hope you can also remember to show yourself the same kindness the next time you doubt yourself. I'll be rooting for you, too!

Thank you for your kind words, Mado. While part of me is tempted to immediately jump back into work and somehow magically fixing all of this, I’d be very grateful if I could get back to you about that offer at a later time. I truly appreciate it.

Take care of yourself too!

Thank you so much! Your support is much appreciated :D

Hey! Thank you for that suggestion. Unfortunately, after looking into it, I don't think this is something I can do, since I would fundamentally have to change how my code works. (My code makes use of a built-in "Count" class, rather than scanning all the text itself.) I'm sorry...

It's true that a good use of variables and "extend" might already help a lot, though! If you can think of alternative workarounds, I'll try my best to support those!

On the other hand, your comment motivated me to finish up the last few features I've been cooking up, so now there's a different type of update for you to enjoy. Thank you again! :D

The new version is now live, and works as a compromise between Versions A and B. Thank you for sparking this idea!

Sorry for the long wait, but I think I finally figured out a solution for this!

The functionality you're looking for will be added in an update later today!

If I'm understanding correctly, this isn't a bug, but simply how persistent variables work in Ren'Py. When the default of a persistent variable has been set once, updating it won't change anything. I might add a note within the plugin to make this clearer in the future!

Using Delete Persistent from the launcher should let your changes to the default value take effect. (Though keep in mind this might also reset some other settings for you.)

Otherwise, if you don't plan on using the preferences menu / having the player be able to change the values themselves, you can swap default for define (for example define persistent.speech_pause_comma = 0.15) and this will make the game always override it with the values you set!

So glad to hear that. Fingers crossed! :D

OOF, I’m really sorry you had such a bad time, Pri.

I’m honestly more surprised others somehow DID manage to have a good experience with this company, because I immediately assumed it was a scam when I saw they didn’t list anywhere where they were based and had a laughable “about us” page, supplied a gmail address rather than their own domain (though I see they changed this in the meantime), and not to mention are creating bootleg merch of other franchises.

Still, I hope that you don’t give up, and that you can turn plushies into reality with a more reliable manufacturer someday!

Thank you for reporting this, and sorry again for the late reply! I am unfortunately unable to fix this myself, but I filed a general report about config.say_menu_text_filter in the Ren'Py Github in order to hopefully find a solution. I will keep you posted!

Thanks for pointing out it was gone. I've updated it with the new one now!

Thank you so much for playing! :D

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There is technically no singular true canon route, but I’d say Bea & Ricky are the strongest contenders for that, yeah!

Thank you Pri!! I hope you'll enjoy it when you get the time :D

Hey, just to let you know it's possible to run into a rare crash if the audio is muted and there is "No song playing", and you then hit the "previous song" button.

I fixed it by adding the same code from the next() function to the previous() function, right before "pos = renpy.music.get_pos(channel=self.channel)":

            filename = renpy.music.get_playing(channel=self.channel)
            if filename is None:
                return self.play(None, 0)

Oh yeah, I'm on the latest nightlies, so that's probably why. Thank you, I can confirm this fixed it!

Back with a new bug report! This time around it's related to self-voicing (normally activated with "v"). The game throws the following error when I hover over a choice menu making use of truncate_text.

(The same also happens in NVL mode and in the history screen, where i shorten the character names with truncate_text.)

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
  File "game/script/routes/loye_3.rpy", line 1359, in script
    menu:
TypeError: TruncateText._tts() got an unexpected keyword argument 'raw'
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "game/script/routes/loye_3.rpy", line 1359, in script
    menu:
  File "renpy/ast.py", line 1816, in execute
    choice = renpy.exports.menu(choices, self.set, args, kwargs, item_arguments)
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/exports/menuexports.py", line 135, in menu
    rv = renpy.store.menu(new_items)
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/exports/menuexports.py", line 418, in display_menu
    rv = renpy.ui.interact(mouse="menu", type=type, roll_forward=roll_forward)
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/ui.py", line 306, in interact
    rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/core.py", line 2164, in interact
    repeat, rv = self.interact_core(
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        preloads=preloads,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ...<4 lines>...
        **kwargs,
        ^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "renpy/display/core.py", line 3259, in interact_core
    rv = renpy.display.focus.mouse_handler(ev, x, y)
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/focus.py", line 641, in mouse_handler
    return change_focus(new_focus, default=default)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/focus.py", line 568, in change_focus
    set_focused(current, newfocus.arg, newfocus.screen)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/focus.py", line 217, in set_focused
    renpy.display.tts.displayable(widget)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/tts.py", line 428, in displayable
    s = d._tts_all(raw=False)
        ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/behavior.py", line 1204, in _tts_all
    rv = self._tts_common(alt(self.action), raw=raw)
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 625, in _tts_common
    speech = i._tts(raw=raw)
             ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 663, in _tts
    return self._tts_common(raw=raw)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 625, in _tts_common
    speech = i._tts(raw=raw)
             ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1300, in _tts
    return self._tts_common(raw=raw)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 625, in _tts_common
    speech = i._tts(raw=raw)
             ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/layout.py", line 1300, in _tts
    return self._tts_common(raw=raw)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 625, in _tts_common
    speech = i._tts(raw=raw)
             ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: TruncateText._tts() got an unexpected keyword argument 'raw'
Windows-11-10.0.22631-SP0 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.5.3.26042304+nightly

Alright, so I did not forget about this!

One other thing that could be causing it is that the speech pauses function is being overwritten by something else.

Do you use "config.say_menu_text_filter" anywhere else in your game?

Hey, and thank you so much for this amazing plugin! I finally got around to testing the Bloom effect, and I'm running into the same issue (KeyError: 'a_tex_coord') there as well. It only happens when I try showing a displayable that makes use of "Solid("#000")" - regular image files work perfectly!

Hi, and thank you for asking! Feel free to use this for commercial projects.

Hmm, that's weird. Are you sure you put it inside the "game/" folder, and not the base folder?

No worries! As described in the "How to Use" section, just copy the whole file into your game's folder, and you'll be good to go!

Thank you for your kind words and for sharing your cute looks!! I hope you will enjoy Artificial Selection as well! :D

This is so cute! Unfortunately, some of the settings don't seem to take effect - particularly the window size (it always forces it to fullscreen) and volume controls. Otherwise, great game! Keep it up!

Thank you, that's a great point! I've now updated the file with different default names for the "focusing" variable and the "focus" image.

Let me know what kinds of tweaks you were thinking of, and I might add this additional functionality for everyone!

Woah, letting translators test and see their own work in action is going to be a real game changer. Thank you for this!!

Hey! So I finally gave this a shot by swapping out my existing flowchart viewport with zoom_viewport.

While zooming out immediately worked as expected, I ran into the following issues:

• Despite supplying "draggable True" and "pagekeys True", neither of these input methods seem to work. ("mousewheel "zoom"" however, does.) Is there anything in particular I should be looking out for that could be interfering here?
• Like I said, zooming out works perfectly, but whenever I scroll the mousewheel to zoom in, I run into the following error:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 494, in renpy.display.render.render_screen
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/accelerator.pyx", line 1020, in renpy.display.accelerator.RenderTransform.render
  File "renpy/display/accelerator.pyx", line 439, in renpy.display.accelerator.RenderTransform.render_child
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "renpy/display/accelerator.pyx", line 1020, in renpy.display.accelerator.RenderTransform.render
  File "renpy/display/accelerator.pyx", line 439, in renpy.display.accelerator.RenderTransform.render_child
  File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 267, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "game/script/system/plugins/zoom_viewport/01_zoom_viewport.rpy", line 383, in render
  File "game/script/system/plugins/zoom_viewport/01_zoom_viewport.rpy", line 319, in redraw_adjustments
  File "game/script/system/plugins/zoom_viewport/01_zoom_viewport.rpy", line 343, in adjust_pos_for_zoom
IndexError: list index out of range

The error appears while the zoom-in animation is already happening, if that helps. 

I'd also be happy to send a game build to figure this out in more detail in DMs! (My Discord username is kigyodev.)

That’s very kind of you, thank you! A link to my website (https://kigyodev.com/) should be fine for Steam. Glad my tool has been helpful! :D

I'm really sorry I missed your last comment! 

I've personally been using Ren'Py 8 ever since the launch of this tool, but I downloaded 7.8.7 to test this, and I got it to work just fine in a fresh test project.

To make absolutely sure, is your wordcounter file inside of your project's game/ folder? (A screenshot of how your folder structure is set up might also help.)

I'll also admit Ren'Py not respecting your "character counts by speaking character" setting is very strange. Does it only do that if the wordcounter is there, or in general?

Thank you so much for the quick reply, it works now!

Thank you again for this awesome plugin!

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it working with LayeredImageProxy. It always gives me one of two errors:

When using outline_transform() directly:

File "game/outline_shader.rpy", line 244, in <module>
    u_width float(width)
            ~~~~~^^^^^^^
TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a real number, not 'MultiBox'

When using a transform that makes use of  outline_transform():

File "game/outline_shader.rpy", line 247, in <module>
    u_line_color Color(color).rgba
                 ~~~~~^^^^^^^     
TypeError: 'MultiBox' object is not iterable

I got these in a sample project simply by doing:

layeredimage eileen base:
    always "eileen.png"
image eileen = LayeredImageProxy("eileen base", [outline_transform()])

I'm happy to provide more detail in case there's a specific part of the error message that would help!

Thank you so much! :D

We’re definitely planning on adding more options for the player - do you have any specific examples for what you’d like to see?

Ohhh, please note that wordcounter_hidden_files only hides those specific file statistics from your view - their word counts will still be included in the character-specific and overall totals.

To exclude unused labels entirely, you'd want to look at script_ignore_path instead. Unlike wordcounter_hidden_files, this one makes sure the words won't be counted at all. (Otherwise, they work exactly the same when it comes to file name matching.)

1. Specifically, you'd want to put your unused script parts in a separate file, let's say "wip_route.rpy"
2. You can then set script_ignore_path  = ["wip_route.rpy"]
3. Or script_ignore_path  = ["wip"]
   
4. Depending on your preferences, you can either name specific files or broadly exclude all files mentioning a certain keyword

Likewise, I have no idea if this would fully resolve your problem, but maybe simply adding ".rpyc" to script_ignore_path would do the trick for the second issue? I've personally never run into this issue, so I'm unfortunately not sure how to validate it.

Thank you for pointing this out! I fixed this issue and also added some new features while I was at it. I hope you enjoy! :D

Thank you so much for your interest! I'm so glad you enjoyed the stream and had a good time with SpookY2K!

Regarding your question, the two endings that are already in the Demo will more or less stay as they are. We might decide to add more CGs or do minor edits, but no major story changes/additions are planned at the moment.

Haha I was definitely a little self-indulgent when conceptualizing this project, and I'm so proud of how our team put it all together! Thank you so much for your kind words!! 💗

I'm glad!!! Huge shoutout to Rosia for being our incredible web dev wizard

I'm not sure what's going on with my Ren'Py right now, but since trying 8.4.1 and going back to 8.3.7 due to various errors, all my save files either jump back to the very start of a label, or immediately crash upon being loaded. One of the errors I get when loading a save is:

File "game/script/system/plugins/inline_conditions.rpy", line 544, in check_for_seen_conditional
     if store.just_seen_conditional:
AttributeError: 'StoreModule' object has no attribute 'just_seen_conditional'

It's the type of crash that doesn't just display an error screen, but fully shuts down the game and opens traceback.txt

just_seen_conditional is defaulted correctly, and I've (so far) used inline conditions only in one single line of my game, so I have no idea what's going wrong here. When I remove inline conditions, other variables of mine cause issues as well, but they don't fully shut down the game, so this seems to be the most "severe" one. I'd appreciate any help!

NVM: I did manage to restore my old .rpyc files and all the crash problems have been resolved. While I still don't get why this would affect defaulted variables, this is no longer really problem.

Elevator Rush is separate from the main game and therefore doesn't have access to the flowchart. To continue with the main game, select "Load" in the main menu and pick your latest save slot that doesn't say "Elevator Rush". 

Let me know if you run into any other problems!