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Ren'Py 8.1 and Ren'Py 7.6 Prerelease
🕑 Added 2023-04-22 22:51:22 +0000 UTCI'm happy to announce that Ren'Py 8.1 and Ren'Py 7.6 are now in prerelease.
(I'm sending this up to my sponsors because I think you'll be interested. I'm not going to make a post for every prerelease, because that would be annoying - please check https://www.renpy.org for every update.)
Ren'Py 8.1 is the second feature release of Ren'Py that supports Python 3. This release is the first version of Ren'Py 8 to run on the web platform, and is recommended for all new games and games that plan to release after May 2024.
I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.6, a feature release that retains support for Python 2.7. This release is intended to support games that do not support Python 3 yet, and plan to release before May 2024.
Ren'Py 8.1 and Ren'Py 7.6 are a joint release that add improved documentation, fixes, and many new features to Ren'Py. Some of the new features are:
- Ren'Py Sync, an easy way to synchronize save games between computers, phones, and the web.
- A built-in way for displaying character dialogue in speech bubbles, including an interactive editor for positioning the bubbles.
- Ren'Py 8-only support for progressive web apps, including features like installing on a device and caching data locally.
- Apple Silicon support.
- Sticky layers, such that an image tag remains associated with a layer until it's hidden.
- Detached layers, that are displayables themselves.
- Support for displaying AVIF images.
- Support for displaying SVG images.
- Support for oversampled images, which can be used to upgrade a game to a higher resolution.
- Support for AV1 video on PC and Mobile platforms, with web support depending on browser support.
- A rewritten audio mixing system that works on a per-sample basis, allowing for smoother fadeouts and removing clicks.
- Volume sliders that work in decibels, and hence are more responsive.
- Viewports that can be dragged on touch screen devices, even if the player is touching a button or bar.
- Support for _ren.py files, that allow Ren'Py script to be edited using Python text editors (allowing for better completion of Python-heavy files).
- The use of lenticular brackets as a simpler syntax for ruby text (furigana).
- The ability to substitute text before self-voicing is performed, allowing pronunciation to be changed.
- A new warning that reminds people that it's insecure to load saves from people you do not fully trust.
- New transform properties that control rotation on the 3D Stage.
As well as many more new features, improvements, fixes, and a dark theme for the documentation.
Downloads of 8.1.0 can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/release/8.1.0
Downloads of 7.6.0 can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/release/7.6.0
A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/changelog.html
A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/incompatible.html
Please also check out the credits and sponsor list.
Comments
Renpytom
Can you post the error message for this? It's odd that the game would fail only on build.
Ariane Barnes
Ran into a problem with making new builds using 8.1, was getting the "ERROR Launching Project Failed" message, when the game launched fine from Renpy. Turns out the build was detecting an error, and posting the error.txt file in the game menu so I missed it. It was a simple syntax error on a say command that wasn't preventing launch in Renpy, but was preventing the Build from happening. Might need to update the error message to reflect that.
