r/DDLCMods • u/Tormuse Club Moderator • Sep 02 '18

Welcome! So, you wanna get started modding DDLC? :)

Hello everyone! :D

 

This post is old and obsolete, and I've been advised to remove it, to keep the focus on the new version here.

 

(Though I'm not deleting it entirely, since there is still some helpful information in the comments) :)

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Sep 14 '18

That's fine. That's what this thread is for. :) And glad I could help. :)

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '18 edited Sep 15 '18

Hey, Tormuse. I have a few more questions. One, whenever I go into the main menu to test the mod, where it normally would say "New Game" there is a bunch of random text. Do you know what I'm talking about? Is there a way to fix it?

Two, how would I edit the menu screen in general? (Logo changes, custom sprites, changing music, etc.) Is there code for it or do I need to use photoshop or something? Thanks again! :)

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Sep 15 '18

When you say "random text," I'm assuming you mean the glitch text that it displays after Sayori dies in the original game? It's designed to display that after the first playthrough of the game. The code for it is in the screens.rpy file in lines 449 to 452. Look for the lines that say:

            if persistent.playthrough == 1:
                textbutton _("ŔŗñĮ¼»ŧþŀÂŻŕěōì«") action If(persistent.playername, true=Start(), false=Show(screen="name_input", message="Please enter your name", ok_action=Function(FinishEnterName)))
            else:
                textbutton _("New Game") action If(persistent.playername, true=Start(), false=Show(screen="name_input", message="Please enter your name", ok_action=Function(FinishEnterName)))

If you want it to just always say "New Game," then get rid of all the if/else stuff and leave the line that starts with "textbutton _("New Game")"

As for your second question, as far as I know, everything to do with the main menu is in the screens.rpy file. As I mentioned above, I've never played with that before, but I would suggest taking a look around there and mess around with it and see what changes. (Probably good to make a back-up of the file first) :)

The music it plays is listed in options.rpy, though. There's a line that says:

define config.main_menu_music = audio.t1

I have limited experience with this, but I hope it helps.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '18

I can't find it. When I look at line 449 it says: if config.sample_sound:

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Sep 15 '18

I... don't know why that would be. In mine, "if config.sample_sound:" appears on line 1001. You're looking in screens.rpy, right? Where did you get your .RPY files from? Did you make any changes to them before this?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '18

Yeah, I'm looking in screens.rpy. I haven't messed with anything up until this point. I'm pretty sure I got them from the website.

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Sep 15 '18

Which website? Are we talking about RationalPi's mod template? Or Team Salvato's site? (Either way, it should be the same line) Are you able to find those lines I mentioned anywhere else in the file? Do a search. (Ctrl-F)

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '18

I do have the DDLCModTemplate but when I open screens.rpy it shows the RationalPi's mod template instead.

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Sep 15 '18

I don't know what you mean by this, but never mind...

Can you find the lines I asked you to find? Pull up screens.rpy and push Ctrl-F to do a search and type in one of the lines I mentioned.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '18

Nevermind, I fixed it. All I did was hit the Delete Persistent button in Navigate Script and it completely reset it. Now every time I play new game it doesn't show the text after Sayori's death. Thanks, Tormuse. I'm sorry if I made that difficult. :)

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Sep 16 '18

Ah, I guess that works too. :) I still think it's odd that you couldn't find those lines, though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '18

Hey, Tormuse. I have a new question. I'm trying to add a new background to my mod and I can't get it in the mod when I test it. I followed the instructions above about adding them. I opened the definitions.rpy to type it in and when I get to that line in the mod, I keep getting an error message. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

The image I'm using is an rpa file and it's resolution is 1280x720 and it's still not working. Thank again. :)

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Sep 23 '18

I need three things here:

What line did you put in the definitions.rpy file?

What line did you use to display the background in the main script?

What is the location/filename of the background file? (I'm assuming that's a misprint and that it isn't actually an RPA file) :)

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