Is it possible to put images on the main menu?

[Sirachi]

I've done quite a bit of looking around but couldn't find anything about this. There was stuff about imagemaps and imagebuttons and what not but I could not dig up anything about this for the life of me.

Simply using:

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show image

Just returns an error and I couldn't find anything in the manual about it. I'd just like to add a small 2 frame animates image in the corner of the title screen. I could opt to just go unanimated and make it part of the background image but I wanted to know if could do it properly first.

[fluxus]

Usually you'd use

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image bg klinik = "img/bg_klinik.jpg"
scene bg klinik
with fade

for background images (although the main menu's background is added elsewhere - options.rpy I think)

and

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image tiger = "img/tiger.png"
show tiger

for character images, or objects.

Does that help?

I'd like to do something similar as what you write about at one point, but I'm unsure as to where the right section to add the code is.. I haven't really looked into it :]

Edit: @Donmai, Cool, that's going to help me as well when the time comes - Thanks ^.^

[Donmai]

You can change the background of the main menu by editing a line in options.rpy

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mm_root = "#594f4f", #change it to something like mm_root = "yourImageName.jpg",
# (the comma at the end of the line is very important!)

If you want to add more images, like an animated logo, you will have to, well, add it on screens.rpy:

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screen main_menu:

    tag menu

    window:
        style "mm_root"
    add "my_logo"

For this to work you must have the image defined elsewhere. This is usually done at the start of script.rpy, just to keep things organized:

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    image my_logo:
        "my_logo.png"
        offscreenleft
        alpha 0.0
        easein 1.0 xalign 0.5 alpha 1.0

(If my code isn't wrong your logo should enter screen from the left and stop in the middle of the screen).

[Sirachi]

You can change the background of the main menu by editing a line in options.rpy

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mm_root = "#594f4f", #change it to something like mm_root = "yourImageName.jpg",
# (the comma at the end of the line is very important!)

If you want to add more images, like an animated logo, you will have to, well, add it on screens.rpy:

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screen main_menu:

    tag menu

    window:
        style "mm_root"
    add "my_logo"

For this to work you must have the image defined elsewhere. This is usually done at the start of script.rpy, just to keep things organized:

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    image my_logo:
        "my_logo.png"
        offscreenleft
        alpha 0.0
        easein 1.0 xalign 0.5 alpha 1.0

(If my code isn't wrong your logo should enter screen from the left and stop in the middle of the screen).

Yup! This works. I did try using add as opposed to image/show but it seems the picture always showed beneath my imagemap for the menu which took up the whole screen.

Thanks a bunch!

[kisa]

Pardon me... When I do what Donmai says to do... it tells me that my image isn't defined. (Even though I defined it in script.rpy)
Is this because it's screen language or am I being a dunce and forgetting something?

[Asceai]

Make sure you put the image name in quotes when referencing it in screen language.

e.g.

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image picture = "testing image.png"

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screen test:
    add "picture"

[kisa]

Ah, so I was being a dunce.
Thank you, Asceai. OuOb