this seems so useful! as someone who still struggles with ren'py and has way too many issues with anything that isn't sprite or dialogue-relate, this is great! i'm more of an artist and someone who likes designing UIs than a coder, so being able not to struggle with it as much I would've otherwise is great ( ^ ^ )/ thank you so much for releasing this!
I personally don’t really like imagemaps and focus mask GUI, reminds me too much of my days coding webpages out of Photoshop slices (and you have to remember giving them all alt tags). However, I’m actually happy to see this, because while Feniks’ Easy Renpy GUI is what I would send people comfortable with coding, there is little option for something similar geared towards people more visually-inclined. There are packs out there, yes, but usually a bit too stylized/hardcoded/… to be of use as a launchpad.
(Sorry if that sounds unwelcome. I do not intend to make comparisons here, I think more tools available is nice)
The use of ATL to recolor the images is also a clever one, plus all the options you surfaced so new people don’t have to muck their way through gui.rpy and screens.rpy along with the comments.
I'm glad you find it useful. This pack is indeed geared towards people with minimal to no coding experience. While Renpy itself is fairly easy to learn, let's face it, GUI customization is a whole another thing than implementing dialogues or moving sprites around.
In my experience, many artists or writers are interested to start their little projects, but hesitant because coding is a new realm for them. I aim to fill that gap a little here ^^
I'm definitely going to recommend something more advanced for people who are familiar with programming. But for an introduction, I hope this pack will give a better experience.
I agree. It certainly doesn’t help that screen language is fairly different from the script language, and it’s easy to get mixed up when to use what where.
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this seems so useful! as someone who still struggles with ren'py and has way too many issues with anything that isn't sprite or dialogue-relate, this is great! i'm more of an artist and someone who likes designing UIs than a coder, so being able not to struggle with it as much I would've otherwise is great ( ^ ^ )/ thank you so much for releasing this!
I personally don’t really like imagemaps and focus mask GUI, reminds me too much of my days coding webpages out of Photoshop slices (and you have to remember giving them all alt tags). However, I’m actually happy to see this, because while Feniks’ Easy Renpy GUI is what I would send people comfortable with coding, there is little option for something similar geared towards people more visually-inclined. There are packs out there, yes, but usually a bit too stylized/hardcoded/… to be of use as a launchpad.
(Sorry if that sounds unwelcome. I do not intend to make comparisons here, I think more tools available is nice)
The use of ATL to recolor the images is also a clever one, plus all the options you surfaced so new people don’t have to muck their way through gui.rpy and screens.rpy along with the comments.
Thank you for the pack.
I'm glad you find it useful. This pack is indeed geared towards people with minimal to no coding experience. While Renpy itself is fairly easy to learn, let's face it, GUI customization is a whole another thing than implementing dialogues or moving sprites around.
In my experience, many artists or writers are interested to start their little projects, but hesitant because coding is a new realm for them. I aim to fill that gap a little here ^^
I'm definitely going to recommend something more advanced for people who are familiar with programming. But for an introduction, I hope this pack will give a better experience.
I agree. It certainly doesn’t help that screen language is fairly different from the script language, and it’s easy to get mixed up when to use what where.
Will keep this handy to refer to artist friends.
I needed this in my life!!!