You will all know that RenPy is a tool/environment/library to build visual novels. I will not go into details regarding RenPy.
But I’ll – now and then – write about my own journey into RenPy.
On the side you see a couple of buttons I made for the GUI. The default buttons are certainly “working” – but I thought a different more “modern” vibe would not be bad.
I was surprised how hard it was to find buttons I like. Actually I have not found any downloadable – or ‘free’ button at all that I had liked. Perhaps my search parameters were faulty…
After my search, I decided to draw the buttons myself – I took inspiration from a YouTube Video: Realistic Button Design
It shows how to draw buttons similar to “mine” using css and javascript.
I more or less translated the code to features of Photoshop.
The first thing in RenPy that surprised me was, the buttons are ‘missing’ a state that usually is available – there is no state “pressed”.
Only “idle” and “hover” – I have as yet not found a sensible way to emulate a “pressed” state.
Not that it really matters…
I also did CheckBoxes and other gui elements – but I am not really content with the results yet:
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