Ren'py Kinetic Text Tool

I may have been unclear about this in the video, but if you want to use these kinetic text tags, download the Wattson's Kinetic Text tool, then copy and paste the file kinetic_text_tags.rpy in the same folder as your script.rpy file!

Beyond the Harbor: R is a vn that implements this pack well in a horror setting if you're looking for examples

i feel like the rainbow gradient text tool could be used to make a really fun period piece about like that transitional period from web 1.0 to web 2.0 when seizure inducing fonts absolutely RULED the web if you were of a certain demographic (and even if you weren't, let's not pretend weird boomers like time cube guy weren't also great at it).

anyway, have you ever considered making a cookbook video about the renpy encyclopaedia plugin? it's a really neat framework that lets you add a highly customizable, well, encyclopedia to your game.... if you can get it to work. which i haven't 😅 it doesn't have any video tutorials and i've been rifling around but documentation aimed at beginners or people who learn best with videos seems sparse to none. i've got it half working, but i've hit a wall and can't think of what i could be missing at this point and i've been poking around in it for weeks so i'm honestly feeling a little discouraged! thanks for reading :>

In trying to add the game file to my other files I accidentally replaced it, effectively destroying seven months worth of code. Not blaming the vid or u just an awful awful thing that I had to go through. Wish me luck 🥲

How can i combine 2 of these effects? like, fade in and glitch?

Ok, i found these files today and downloaded it, but, when i tried to use it in my project, it didn't worked e.e ( i broke the script), so, here i'm, trying to learn how to use it

Thank you for this video! Even though it's way more than a year old, it's incredibly useful. Although I do wonder if there is a way to make these Kinetic tags work with {color} and {size}.

How to fix the bug of the paragraph continuing off the dialogue box?

Hello VND. Love your videos. Is there a function that is similar to "hpunch" for text only? Currently, when I use hpunch, it shakes the entire screen (image and text). Is there a way to just shake the text for a half second like hpunch.

Fun video as always!! :D I'm not sure if it's possible with these tools or a tutorial I haven't found yet, but I would love to see a glowing text feature.

heya, you know if you can make the gradiant vertical?

Hey! Kind of embarrassing but - It's me again :)
First of all, I really appreciate the hard work and the responsiveness you put on these projects!


Second of all, I have a small question regarding the glitch text. Might be silly, but everytime I try to use it, I get the same error:

my_style = DispTextStyle()
NameError: name 'DispTextStyle' is not defined.

How can I resolve this?
Thank you in advance! :) Have a great day! :)

Why won't it work?! Help...
I put it in the same folder of the script.rpy of my game, but when I try to use a tag, it won't work on the game, and it'll say that the tag I use is inexistent (or undefined, I don't remember)

EDIT: I KIND OF Got this to work. I'm not super keen with reading tons of update txt logs (I am pathetically ADHD and need an itemized list or else I'll get totally lost) , and there's not a ton of documentation on this scripts updates, so I found out reading the script itself that "bounce" is discontinued. Wave worked fine. Some of these are totally different and I guess I'm gonna have to dig a lil deeper into the doc to see which ones of these I can use without breaking everything. But WAVE does work fine, just as in your video here. Maybe it's time for an update on this tool! Thanks so much for putting me onto this!!

(ORIGINAL COMMENT:)
I put this in my game folder, but I still can't get it to work. Am I missing something? I saw your top comment as well.

For starters, I'm using mac. So I need to open the executable project file by right clicking the downloadable game executable and clicking > Open Package Contents.

My Game's filepath is in my documents folder. But do I need to add something to the Renpy application folder?

IE (filepath is mac) My game folder is called "TEST"
Documents>TEST>GAME>kinetic_text_tags.rpy

I'm still confused how to get this ATL to be sourced in my game. Anything you can do to help would be amazing.. still have a lot of gaps/ still learning this src code. Thanks so much for your videos and responsive comments.

is goths switch one of your games?

can i make a text outline?

I can't get the glitch to work. Can someone tell me what's wrong? It shows me an error: "Exception: Line with id 6c0c3176 appeared twice, at game/glitch_tag.rpyc:1 and game/kinetic_text_tags.rpy:1."

i got an error :(

como você fez o nome ficar animado também?

Does anyone know if there's a way to make text appear with a sweep animation? Like persona 3 for example.

Hai there ^w^
So, i'm having a bit of a problem with this, to be more specific- whenever I'm using one of the text effect, the text it's aplied to is goin way off teh text box, might i ask for a bit of help here?

Is there a way to apply an effect, like say a font, to only one of the texts in the swap text?

Love your content btw.

thank u thank u

This tutorial satiates my bells-and-whistles obsessed brain XD thank you so much! 
Would you happen to know why these don't work when used in gui? I want to add a function where a button wiggles when you hover over it but the tags don't work apparently.

I'm trying to use this for a game I'm working on but its not working ;w; I have the kinetic text file in my game folder, but when I put "{glitch}{b}test text{/b}{/glitch}" I get the error that it doesn't recognize the tag glitch-

Amazing video! have question, it's normal can't reload the game after installed kinectic text? im constantly writting on it and i loss that function :(

Thank you for your video , but long text cannot wrap automatically ???!

Hello! Um, I wanted to do a game with these tags, but it seems the code is outdated? I can´t find a way put the tags i the game :c

This is so cool! I didn't know Renpy was capable of so much!

cool...

is there a way to set one of those ATLs as the default for dialogue?

help i can't get this to work ;o;
i keep getting this error message: "Exception: Unknown text tag u'bt=10' " (tried using {bt=10}text{/bt} in this case).
the same happens with any other effect... it works fine in the actual tutorial, just not in my script? am i missing something obvious ;o;

Amazing tutorials. Many thanks

I have no idea how I didn't hear of that script before.
Thank you so much for the tutorial, It was really helpful.

these tutorrials coming out right as Im learning Renpy have been very helpful!

Another amazing tutorial! it would be cool to see you attempt to make a visual novel in 48 hours challenge or something like that, keep up the good work man

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Thank you so much for the tutorial and the shout out, Vimi! >U<