This is a list of changes that may require intervention in the form of changes to scripts or your development environment. Our intent is that all other changes should not affect existing scripts.
Note that setting config.script_version
will cause many of
these changes to be reverted, at the cost of losing access to recent
features.
Ren'Py will now scan the an image directory (the directory named images underneath the game directory) for images, and define them based on their filename. To disable this behavior, use the code:
init python:
config.image_directory = None
The show screen
and call screen
statements may now evaluate their
arguments as part of the screen prediction process. If evaluating the
arguments to a screen causes side effects to occur, the show screen
or call screen
statements should be given the new nopredict
clause, which prevents prediction.
Screens now participate in transitions - transitions now go from the old
state of the screen to the new state. To disable this, set
config.transition_screens
to false.
Ren'Py no longer uses structural equality to transfer state (for example,
the state of a transform) when a screen replaces a screen with the same
tag. Instead, the use statement now supports an id
property, which can be used to explicitly transfer state.
The meaning of the loop parameter to MusicRoom()
has changed. To
get the old behavior, set both loop and single_track to true.
Previously, Ren'Py moved archived files into the archived/ directory. It would search this directory automatically when running a game or building archives. One-click builds make this unnecessary, and files in archived/ should be moved back into the game directory.
MoveTransition()
has changed its interface. The old version of
MoveTransition can be accessed as OldMoveTransition, if you don't want
to rewrite your code. (The changes only matter if you use factories with
MoveTransition.)
Transform()
has changed its behavior with regards to
asymmetrically scaled and rotated images. It's unlikely the old
behavior was ever used.
Old-style string interpolation has been re-enabled by default. If you wrote code (between 6.13 and 6.13.7) that uses % in say or menu statements, you should either write %% instead, or include the code:
init python:
config.old_substitutions = False
The changes to text behavior can affect games in development in many ways. The biggest change is the introduction of new-style (square-bracket) text substitutions, and the elimination of old-style (percent-based) substitutions. These changes can be reverted with the code:
init python:
config.old_substitutions = True
config.new_substitutions = False
New- and old-style substitutions can coexist in the same game, by setting both variables to True.
Ren'Py has also changed the default line-wrapping behavior. While the new behavior should never increase the number of lines in a paragraph, it may change which words fall on each line. To restore the old behavior, add the code:
init python:
style.default.layout = "greedy"
style.default.language = "western"
A bug with negative line_spacing was fixed. This fix can cause blocks of text to shrink in height. To revert to the old behavior, use:
init python:
config.broken_line_spacing = True
Finally, the new text code may lead to artifacts when displaying slow
text, especially in conjunction with a negative line spacing. Consider
adjusting line_overlap_split
to fix this.
Image names have changed from being static names to being
attribute-based. This can lead to image names that were previously
distinct becoming ambiguous. To disable attribute-based image names,
set config.image_attributes
to False.
Showing an image without providing a transform or ATL block will now
continue the previous transform that the image was using. This means
that a moving image may continue moving once it has changed. To revert
to the old behavior, set config.keep_running_transform
to False.
The image argument to Character()
has changed meaning. While
the old meaning was unsupported in the screens-based environment, it
can be restored for compatibility purposes by setting
config.new_character_image_argument
to False.
The definition of the items parameter of the Choice and
nvl_choice
screens has changed. The nvl_choice
screen is
deprecated in favor of the NVL screen.
Screens may be invoked at any time, in order to allow for image prediction, unless they have a predict property of False. When the predict property is not False, screens should not cause side effects to occur upon their initial display.
For performance reason, Ren'Py now ignores the position properties of
ImageReferences. This means that the position properties of
style.image_placement are now ignored. To revert to the old behavior,
set config.imagereference_respects_position
to True.
MoveTransition has been modified to respect the xoffset and yoffset parameters of the displayables it is moving. The factory functions that are used for movement now take xoffset and yoffset parameters. While the built-in movement factories take these parameters without problem, user-defined factories may need to be upgraded to use or ignore these additional parameters.
The transform specified by the config.default_transform
variable is used to initialize the transform properties of images
shown using the show and hide statements. The default value of this
transform sets xpos
and xanchor
to 0.5, and
ypos
and yanchor
to 1.0.
This represents a change in the default value of these style properties, which were previously uninitialized and hence defaulted to 0.
By including the reset
transform in ATL transforms, these
properties can be reset back to 0. Alternatively, one can stop using
the default transform, and revert to the old behavior, using the
code:
init python:
style.image_placement.xpos = 0.5
style.image_placement.ypos = 1.0
style.image_placement.xanchor = 0.5
style.image_placement.yanchor = 1.0
config.default_transform = None
If a transform does not define one of the position properties
xpos
, ypos
, xanchor
, or
yanchor
, that property will be taken from the transform's
child, if the defines that property.
This makes it possible to have one transform control a displayable's
vertical motion, and the other control the horizontal. But this is
incompatible with previous behavior, and so can be disabled with the
config.transform_uses_child_position
variable.
init python:
config.transform_uses_child_position = False
The default positions (left, right, center, truecenter, offscreenleft, and offscreenright) are now defined as ATL transforms. This means that showing an image at such a position will cause the position to be remembered. If you do not want this behavior, you need to redefine these positions, by adding the code:
define left = Position(xalign=0.0)
define center = Position(xalign=0.5)
define truecenter = Position(xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5)
define right = Position(xalign=1.0)
define offscreenleft = Position(xpos=0.0, xanchor=1.0)
define offscreenright = Position(xpos=1.0, xanchor=0.0)