Making Dialogue Delay in Renpy More Efficient
In My Visual Novel, I Have Small Pauses in Between Dialogue. the Code Currently Looks Like This. the Code Works Fine. but I Feel This Is Extremely Inefficient...
In my visual novel, I have small pauses in between dialogue. The code currently looks like this.
The code works fine. But I feel this is extremely inefficient and can get very messy when I eventually get up to hundreds of lines of dialogue.
Is there a way to make this script more efficient? If so, how?
Thanks for your help.
1 Answer
You could do something with character callbacks. It lets you add functions that run anytime a certain character speaks.
init python:
def Dialogue_Gap(event,pause=0.0,**kwargs):
if event == "begin":
renpy.pause(pause)
define delay_showing = Character(callback=Dialogue_Gap,cb_pause=0.75)
label start:
"It was quiet."
delay_showing "Too..."
delay_showing "Quiet..."
You could also make it apply to multiple characters at once using config.all_character_callbacks if you want
init python:
def Dialogue_Gap(event,pause=0.0,**kwargs):
if event == "begin":
renpy.pause(pause)
config.all_character_callbacks = [Dialogue_Gap]
define delay_showing = Character(cb_pause=0.75)
define b = Character("Show Talkin' Bob",cb_pause=1.5)
label start:
"It was quiet."
delay_showing "Too..."
delay_showing "Quiet..."
b "Hi"
And if you if you want it to apply to everyone by default, you can change the "pause" parameter to be something other than zero.
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