I can't seem to get images to display properly.

[Tsundere Lightning]

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I'm sorry, but an exception occured while executing your Ren'Py
script.

Exception: Couldn't find file 'thinking'.

While executing game script on line 38 of C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Games\renpy-5.6.3-full\renpy-5.6.3\First, Second, Third/game/script.rpy.

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 5.6.3a

Just as a test, I made a demo file with the Tsuina character set.

I renamed them to match Tsuina's emotions. That is, I changed the filenames to 'embarrased' or 'smug' and so forth.

Had a script a little like this...

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init:

    # Declare images used by this game.
    image black = "#000000"
    # Backgrounds.
    image bg_arcade = "arcade"
    
    # Characters.
    image lucy surprised = "surprise"
    image lucy thinking = "thinking"

    # Declare characters used by this game.
    $ l = Character('Lucy', color="#660099")

# The game starts here.
label start:

    scene black
    show lucy thinking

    l "Testing, testing, 1-2-3..."

    l "Did it work?"

    show lucy surprised

...and it choked on the file named 'thinking' for some reason.

Any idea why? I thought it was the lack of a '.png' extension on the characters, but the backgrounds have no extensions in thier names either.

Thanks in advance.

[EvilDragon]

Is the file in the correct place? Perhaps it's better for all image files to have a proper extension, and that they are put in the separate "img" directory, right in the game directory. Then, when making image statements, you should define them like this:

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image background = "img/bg1.png"

...if your images directory is set in %renpydir%/%yourgamedir%/game/img.

I also prefer sorting various stuff into more directories, it feels more organized. So for my project I have:

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ProjectDir
    ├ bgm       #background music
    ├ chars     #character sprites
    ├ fonts     #duh, self-explanatory :D
    ├ sfx       #sound effects
    ├ img
    │  ├ bg     #backgrounds
    │  ├ misc   #various images (menu backgrounds, cursors, ctc indicators, etc.)
    │  └ trans  #images for ImageDissolve transition
    └ saves

[mozillauser]

Hi Tsundere Lightning,

I examined your script and ... there is nothing wrong with it.

Ok, I

1. put it in the editor,
2. prepared some images and
3. let it run.

It works fine except.... the last statement (show lucy surprised). This show statement ist useless because the scripts ends, before the user can interact (click) with Ren'Py. A concluding "" (2 Double-Quotes) should help.

Oh, yes I forgot: You told us, the script didn't run. Hmm, that's why I subscribe to EvilDragons view.
Tell us: Does the problem still exist?

[yummy]

I think you simply might have forgotten to put the image file extensions.

Assuming your image are in png format:

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init:

    # Declare images used by this game.
    image black = "#000000"
    # Backgrounds.
    image bg_arcade = "arcade.png"
   
    # Characters.
    image lucy surprised = "surprise.png"
    image lucy thinking = "thinking.png"

Ah and don't forget to put your images in your game folder (thus ..\Yourgamefolder\game\yourimages.png)

Hope this helps.

[mozillauser]

I think you simply might have forgotten to put the image file extensions.

I don't think, that this is a must! (at least under windows)
I testet the unmodified script from Tsundere Lightning, and I only prepared some images (jpg's and png's without extension)

[PyTom]

Extensions are required for image files. (Unless you did something insane and saved the image file without an extension, which is possible but unlikely.)

[mozillauser]

Extensions are required for image files. (Unless you did something insane and saved the image file without an extension, which is possible but unlikely.)

unlikely? Of Course
But it seems, that the missing extensions don't affect anything (in this script )

[EvilDragon]

Probably because Ren'py recognizes the file header and sees it's an image file. But, nonetheless, extensions should be there!

[Tsundere Lightning]

Actually, putting in the extensions solved the problem. Oops...

What was tripping me up was that the filename of that .png displayed while browsing windows was "Surprised" but Ren'Py only found it when I listed it as "Surprised.png" - weird.

Thank you all very much.

[Mikan]

Actually, putting in the extensions solved the problem. Oops...

What was tripping me up was that the filename of that .png displayed while browsing windows was "Surprised" but Ren'Py only found it when I listed it as "Surprised.png" - weird.

Thank you all very much.

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