Ren'Py Tutorial Image Buttons

[@fanntsy]

I'm a complete beginner and these videos saved me, because I'm dealing with needing to know a lot in such a short period of time. Your videos are well explained and I've learned along the way interesting stuff about RenPy and how its algorithm works. Thank you so much for helping me achieve what I needed to do with these tutorials!

[@hfreeman330]

I've tried several image button tutorials and this one was the first time that I have been able to get them working. Thank you!

[@FentonHardyFan]

This is definitely the best tutorial for the subject I’ve found so far. It’s given me the confidence to try it myself. :)

[@LearningWithBandE]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bad-sad]

This is actually the best (for me) of Ren'Py's tutorial series. I don't know why, but I like the way you do it. I'm not talking about this particular video, but the whole series. I have some programming experience (in Python too) but I needed an introduction to Ren'Py. You do it the best of all the tutorials I've seen so far.

[@CarlosGutierrez-hl1db]

I agree!

[@FaeMidway]

tysm for this tutorial! I followed a few others but the lack of focus_mask effed up my results. This one was perfect :)

[@HikariKaitou]

This was a very clear and concise video and your instructions were so easy to understand! Thank you for making this :)

[@klleptic]

Literally could not figure out image buttons without this tutorial - thank you so much for creating this video! You made it all so easy to understand compared to a bunch of other resources out there that I tried. Super excited to use image buttons in my NanoReno game this year

[@DRUZYDAY]

I’ve looked at a ton of tutorials, and yours is the only one that gave me results. You were very clear and concise, thank you! (Also, hope your neighbor was ok!)

[@5space522]

Great video, first one of yours that I watched, but I like how you actually explain things. I've never programmed before so this is awesome! Thanks for the video man!!

[@joshlabindustries]

Solid tutorial. Hope that you will continue to create more Renpy content.

[@LearningWithBandE]

Absolutely! I'm trying to get in the habit of posting Ren'py videos every Monday with other Python and Python Arcade videos throughout the rest of the week.

[@storytimewiththecrimsondm1318]

Oh my goodness! It works! I have struggled for a year now to figure out how to make this work, and now I can click on things. yay!

[@victorkola1251]

Thank you for this, just started and is just messing around with Renpy but your tutorials has helped so much it's almost silly. Once again, thank you and keep up the good work!

[@tlsumner]

Tip At 5:50 where you missed part of the bartenders body, Instead of re-doing the entire selection, just hold while you add to your selection or hold to subtract from it. This can be done with most selection tools including the magic wand.. Nice video!

[@marklakan774]

Thank you so much for this! This tutorial finally got some stuff to click in my head about how imagebuttons work and now I realize how dang flexible they are lol -- thanks for making these tutorials and lessons!

[@MrMaskYT]

Thank you! this is the best image button tutorial so far. You saved my project!

[@djt3rrv875]

So good!!!! Thank you so much for this.

[@mysterious_monolith_]

These are really great tutorials, thank you.

[@mirceatheolder]

Great tutorial!Keep up the good work!

[@CarlosGutierrez-hl1db]

Thank you so much! This is a great tutorial! Super clear and useful ^^

[@cipyradutza]

modal means if you click anywhere but the buttons nothing happens. this prevents game from advancing.

[@LearningWithBandE]

Thanks for the tip! 😀

[@ピッキネータ]

My left ear appreciates it, thanks.

[@LearningWithBandE]

Lol. Sorry about that. I was using an audio interface that records in mono by default. In my newer videos I started using a USB mic that's way easier to use and sounds almost as good.

[@daturaze7702]

This helped quite a bit - thanks!

[@LearningWithBandE]

Glad you got something out of it! Thanks for watching!

[@Skigunn]

YOOO THIS IS SICKKK

[@galaxyoverride1722]

I was able to follow and worked. but I want to know how to you use image buttons to switch back and forth for example: if click on the kitchen button and send you to the kitchen, then while in the kitchen you have click on Livingroom button send you to the living room going back and forth something like that.

[@emanuele4678]

Thanks for this tutorial,it helps me a lot 👏🏼 If i could ask you a something i noticed this: example: room_A with 2 doors for room_B and room_C,at the end the player return to room_A. Beginning : Player is in room_A,choose room_B (it comes with fade ),do something and return on room_A,now during the 2nd choice to room_B or room_C i noticed that the next come with fade but in the background i saw last room selected(room_B or room_C )not room_A like the 1st time. Hoper it's clear 😅

[@UltraRik]

how can i put imagebuttons in 'screens' or costum menus it says 'show is not valid child of screen' and stuff

[@kadri_zozor]

this is SUCH a good tutorial but the microfon quality just makes me really want to rip my ears out lmfao, still awesome work!!

[@LearningWithBandE]

Thank you! This is one of my old videos. I've upgraded mics since then. 🤣

[@TildeSymbol]

Amazing and thanks for the image editing guide at the beginning too. One thing I want to add is that you should check your recording channel balance. I can only hear you from the left ear. 😂

[@chuckrackers198]

This is great! Thanks!

[@chaeyeongLFG]

IT WORKED thank you!!

[@selishady2307]

This helped so much!

[@LearningWithBandE]

I'm glad it helped!

[@你也配]

Great video. Could you please show how it looks at the end or show how it looks like during each state of your coding. Thanks.

[@aniketwaghmare2012]

Thanks man great video! Cn you tell what software you use for photoshop

[@bunnybunbun2660]

great vid but was your neighbor okay?? (13:40 ). :((

[@Lucascraft]

Hey, in your video you show how to setup tooltips when you hover the imagebuttons. But I'm not sure how to implement this into the rest of the game. Would it be possible to get a video about tooltips? And maybe you could combine that with some "notify" tips as well. I want to add some notifications to my VN but I don't like the default position. I can't figure out how to move the Notify text to the other side of the screen.

[@dr.dislike6206]

why's there only audio on the left

[@Rupturedspace]

Are you still doind renpy? Tried following this but the screen just jumps to the last scene, not the "room"

[@MrCrazyManCat]

For some reason I got an exception - telling me it can't find the idle image. Adding ".png" after %s solved it. I wonder why it didn't give you that exception!

[@Pawlo370]

how can i use zoom to imagebuttons?

[@eva-nf9fl]

I'm having a problem!! all of my images have hovers and idles however the code is telling me none of them have an idle image :(

[@OswaldHemair]

you need to put the name of the file in front of it, for example if your image name was "hello" and it was in the file "images" you'd need to put "images/hello%s.png"

[@jamieandreassen6720]

You might know the answer to this, I'm working on a visual novel myself It's very early stages and I'm still in many ways learning the basics of what's possible with Ren'Py. But I'm wondering if it's possible to attach a mini game to an image button. For example I have a little scene that takes place in an arcade and I want one of the arcade units to be clickable and it have like a basic rhythm game or some such on it. I know image buttons tend to be used to bringing up stat pages or world maps but can they be used to trigger an event?

[@LearningWithBandE]

There is a way that you can include mini-games. I haven't done it myself, but I've played other VNs that make use of that feature. Let me research that a bit and I'll see if I can figure it out.

[@v3vlog]

@@LearningWithBandE have you found the answer?

[@chickenlittle621]

Thank you!!!!

[@LearningWithBandE]

You're welcome!

[@murillodaniel9208]

Hey man, I'm having an issue while trying to make an event to happen once I click on a place in the map: MapUI> Click imagebutton School> go to Introduction event. Basically after the opening of the game is over I want the player to be able to enter the main map and select the school and the game enter a brief event only once. I tried: default school_unlocked = False

[@bhavinisharma1793]

hiya! lovely tutorial :)) Also, if I want to call a screen very often in a game(like a point-and-click one, where you wanna visit the same room multiple times), how do I do that? And how and where do I place a screen in the screens.rpy file? Kinda a newb to the whole coding thing. Thanks!

[@LearningWithBandE]

One of the cool things about screens is that that they work like functions in Python. If you haven't done so, I recommend that you check out my earlier videos about Python programming, which Ren'Py is written in. Functions can be placed and called from pretty much anywhere, so it doesn't really matter where you put them in the screens.rpy file. In fact, you can even put them in one of your other files (such as script.rpy), though I advise against doing that unless you have a very good reason to (such as a one-time screen) as it makes your code messy and difficult to debug. I'm looking into doing videos specifically on code organization in the near future.

[@bhavinisharma1793]

@@LearningWithBandE alright, I'll give them a watch! Im slowly making my way through your vids, they're really helpful cuz coding is intimidating :) And it would be awesome to have some videos on organization since I end up making a very cluttered file

[@Xegethra]

I think GIMP is alright. I've never tried photoshop though so I can't really compare.

[@catoblepag]

Thank you! This was wonderfully simple and concise, something very important for a beginner like me. I know this is quite old, but if you're still reading comments I have a question. I'd like to insert some pushbuttons in a scene (let's say, a painting on the wall that can display a zoomed image and a comment by the character when you click on it), but at the same time I want the scripted dialogue to continue when you click anywhere else. EDIT: I solved changing "call screen" to "show screen"; now I have to figure out how to stop the game from resetting to title screen after I've seen the painting! If I solved this, I'd have all I need, but I can't find the right script line. This is my current code: screen living_room(): imagebutton auto "bg scene_3_painting_%s": focus_mask True hovered [ Play("sound", "audio/click.mp3") ] action Jump ("look_at_painting") label look_at_painting: show image "painting_see.png" with dissolve alice "It's a painting." hide image "painting_see.png"

[@imtrappedinmydadsbasement]

don't know if you still need help, but it's likely that after the code you entered in, there's a return code below it which makes the game return to the title screen.

[@catoblepag]

@@imtrappedinmydadsbasement Thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I can't remember exactly how I've solved it, but I've added the line "call screen living_room" at the end of each examinable object (for example, look_at_painting), and it forces Ren'py to go back. I've also decided to have the investigation part separate from the story part, 'cause it's much less confusing this way.

[@OswaldHemair]

why doesn't it work 😭😭😭

[@BatmanSeRiedeTi]

Dude, i cant click like enough!

[@lawrencelopez9839]

ohh, I get it. So a screen is like css

[@sharifvalizadeh1870]

Thanks. The audio was bad but thanks