Layering start menu images? [SOLVED]

[Harliqueen]

I hope this is the right place to ask this!

I am currently designing the start menu for my VN, and I had an idea I really like, but not entirely sure if it's possible. I searched and searched but can't find anything on it.

What I would like is instead of a CG gallery, every time the player unlocks an ending, that cg shows up on the start main in a particular place on the background. I have managed to do it so as when I unlock an ending it shows up, but the rest won't appear even though I've unlocked them.

Is there a way of having the images show on start screen as they're unlocked, or can only one show up at a time? What I want to achieve I suppose is layering images over the other, as I have transparent backgrounds around them.

I think it's because I'm using the 'add' statement, so it's overwriting the last one. But I'm not even sure how to begin getting it to do what I want

I'm still learning RenPy, so any help will be really appreciated! This is what I'm currently using, as it's the only thing I could think of.

Should I just scrap this idea, will it not work?

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add "gui/main_menu_ground.jpg"
    
    if persistent.end1_unlocked:
        add "gui/end1.png"
    if persistent.end2_unlocked:
        add "gui/menu_end2.png"
    if persistent.end3_unlocked:
        add "gui/menu_end3.png"

[Alex]

Check if you have

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persistent.end1_unlocked = False

somewhere in init block that resets the value.

When using persistent variables it should look like

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init:
    if not persistent.end1_unlocked:
        $ persistent.end1_unlocked = False

This code will set persistent variable's value to False only if this variable does not exist yet.

[PyTom]

You don't even really need that. Fields on persistent default to None, which is false, so you can just check it and get that falseness until you set it to True.

[Harliqueen]

Yay! It's working perfectly! And it looks so cool

Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it!