General Discussion

[DarkTl]

Alright, back to stories. I need to show 3 layers of images at once: background, characters sprites, prison bars (as a big png with bars and transparency between them).
Bars should always be on the top, obviously.

[Xela]

Look for :on_layer:, :behind: and general description of layers in Ren'Py, maybe also just the screens. There are advantages/disadvantages to every approach.

[DarkTl]

How to change row in MC's team? I see how you can add and remove chars and rename the team, but nothing about rows.

[Xela]

You can't for MC, Gismo never added that option, other chars rows can be set in their profiles (Control). We may look into setting the row in the team screen as well.

[DarkTl]

I wonder, what will happen if in BE you form identical parties using the same characters (not mobs)? Will it work as usual? Or killing enemy party will kill characters in your team after the battle?

[Xela]

identical parties using the same characters (not mobs)

It is not going to work, identical/same is not a useful option since a lot of BE data is bound to characters themselves. Some form of copies would have to be made.

[DarkTl]

Finally found a decent blueprint. I'm going to make a small exploration-type event based on simple blueprint and matrix.

Ideally there should be an option to change party members and formation during the event without actual access to MC screen. And not to include any hired character into the team, like usual, but to select only from the characters that you found during this event. Or, generally speaking, to select team from a freely changable pool of characters.
It could be easily but clumsily done via usual menus, when we just ask how the party should be built step by step. But if you can code something better closer to the release, it will look better.

[DarkTl]

Why do we have that reload option in the dev mode? What does it do, exactly? I mean R button in the left bottom corner.

[Xela]

Reloads the game... it's very useful when developing screens and testing new code. It does the exactly same thing as Shift+R.

[DarkTl]

So it does the same as closing and running again the game?

[Xela]

So it does the same as closing and running again the game?

Not exactly but close enough.

[DarkTl]

For some reason matrix works weird. Old maskes that worked before still work as intended, though coordinates of objects are a bit different from coordinates in jsons.
But when I try to create new coordinates json, matrix objects do not match objects on the screen.

If I have to guess, it has something to do with screen size or resolution. Do you know of any limitations there?

[Xela]

If I have to guess, it has something to do with screen size or resolution. Do you know of any limitations there?

From technical point of view, it should work perfectly. Are you sure that the window from which you're drawing coords is at true size/full screen? You can enter Gismos preferences screen and see if Window button is selected, if not, window is not @ true size.

[DarkTl]

Yeah, it is at true size accoring to the settings. I even tried to write coordinates in full screen mode, they were different and still didn't match objects.
I tried at two different pcs, still the same. But they both are not my usual pcs though.

So either something was broken at some point, or you need a very specific resolution and screen size. I'll try it at home on my usual pcs later, it will make everything clear.

[Xela]

PC shouldn't really matter. There could be something wrong with the code...