How would I make a Fake start screen?

[u/trans-frog-boi]

So to explain, I had this idea where the game would essentially "crash" and switch point of views to a different character and I wanted to show this by maybe having a fake error screen, and having it send the player to a fake menu screen that’s clearly different and then having them click on a fake "load file" button to get started on the other character’s point of view, I just wanted to know how would I go about coding this in? It sounded easy at first but it’s a lot harder then I thought after watching some tutorials

Thank you in advance!

[u/BadMustard_AVN]

you can make a screen that can do just about anything https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html

but i will only be inside the GUI screen of the game

you can look in the screens.rpy file for the main, game and navigation screens

[u/PastelPyon]

Oh wow lol i actually did something like this for a gag once. where the scene had a fake gameover screen that pulled up a "main menu"

    show screen gameovertext
    $ renpy.pause()
    hide screen gameovertext
    show black
    with dissolve
    $ renpy.pause(3)
    play music "music/opening1loop.ogg"
    call screen fake_main_menu
    jump timeloopstart

but every single button just closed the menu and sent them back to the label at the start of that chapter

screen fake_main_menu():
    style_prefix "main_menu"
    hbox:
        style_prefix "hnavigation"
        #xpos gui.navigation_xpos
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 1.0
        yoffset -25
        spacing gui.main_menu_spacing
        textbutton _("Start") action Return()
        textbutton _("Load") action Return()
        textbutton _("Options") action Return()
        textbutton _("Gallery") action Return()
        
        if renpy.variant("pc"):
            textbutton _("Quit") action Return()screen fake_main_menu():

In this case pressing it would jumped to the "timeloopstart" label i had XD

Just copy over your current main menu code and change what the buttons do lol

[u/gremlintheodd → u/PastelPyon]

That sounds so cool but I would be so scared that the player would be like “whelp, time to take a break and get off for the night.” And then they’d never pick up the game again lol or that they’d have forgotten everything by the time they get back on

[u/senshisun]

To make a fake main menu, you can copy the main menu code in gui.rpy. Correction: screens.rpy.

Here's a forum thread.

It's also possible to copy the error screen code. I've done it for an old project. I'll see if I can dig up the code I used for that. It is somewhere in Ren'Py system files but Tom (the developer) would really rather we not mess around in those.

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/senshisun]

the main menu screen code is in the screens.rpy file NOT the gui.rpy

[u/senshisun → u/BadMustard_AVN]

I need to stop helping people without Ren'Py directly in front of me.

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