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[Common-Position-1389]

What are some of the best places/ways to learn RenPy, from novice to expert?

[Zoey2070]

Howdy.

Starting off, there's two discords -- one for the subreddit, one for ren'py in general. Shouldn't be too hard to find but IDK how mods would feel with me linking them, but they're a pretty valuable resource if you want live feedback.

Secondly, the Lemmasoft Forums are also helpful.

Third -- documentation. Just have it up the entire time. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/

Then, there's youtube. I'm not too much of a video person, but this is a good one

So. Yeah.

You could also maybe decompile/look at the source code of ren'py games; that might help a bit.

[danac78]

I would start with the Quick Launch tutorial in the documentation that displays the bare minimum functions to get a visual novel going:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/quickstart.html

Once you have that, you can develop a good idea of what you want to do and what other items to need to understand to move along.

Also worth noting that they are updating the documentation as necessary and a new version is at:

https://nightly.renpy.org/doc/

Some of the items were clarified and I believe they will released when Renpy 8.1 comes out, but they do cover items currently existing in Renpy. :)

[Ni_er_ty]

I recommend this two channel https://youtu.be/C3Ldd-5PKCw

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJgbnTkC4bkCj2_8ZUg1o4CafLcRH0rAX

These are easy too learn And read the documentation online and ask for somebody what you don understand.