Background disappears after "Show"

[shanks]

Good afternoon, all!

I've been meaning to join this forum for a while. Figures I finally get off my butt and do it when I encounter an issue I just can't solve. orz

This is the code I have for this particular label:

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$ where = 0
    
    scene ren house with fade
    "Ren's House - 8:15PM"
    "It's getting dark. His parents might be home by now..."
    play sound "doorbell.wav"
    pause 2
    rmom "Ren! Get the door!"
    pause 2
    play sound "door.wav"
    show ren with fade
    R "Oh, it's you."

When I test this out, the "scene ren house" actually disappears once it reaches the "show ren with fade" action. When I cut out "show ren", then the background stays. I'm supremely confused, because I've done this several times throughout the script and never encountered this problem! ;n; I even switched the image file with an image I use frequently throughout the game and the same thing happens. The screen size is 800 x 600 and ALL of my backgrounds are 800 x 600.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Donmai]

The problem is in the way you named your files. Ren'Py is treating "ren" as a name tag. By default, an image will always overwrite another image that has the same name tag.
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayin ... html#image
Since name tags are very useful in sprite names (so you never need to hide a sprite, only show another with the same tag), try renaming your background image to something like "ren_house" and see if it works.

[Donmai]

The problem is in the way you named your files. Ren'Py is treating "ren" as a name tag. By default, an image will always overwrite another image that has the same name tag.
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayin ... html#image
Since name tags are very useful in sprite names (so you never need to hide a sprite, only show another with the same tag), try renaming your background image to something like "ren_house" and see if it works.

[shanks]

Thank you soooo much Donmai! It worked! : D

I didn't even consider that could be a possibility. I have so much left to learn. orz That explains a few other things that were happening too. Thanks again!