expected 'comma or end of line' not found when defining an image

[neutrino]

hii! this is probably gonna be a really simple answer but im having trouble with an image i'm trying to define and i'm not sure what to do to fix it

background deets are as follows:

• i'm defining all of my images & transformations in separate .rpy files rather than just in the script file itself

• i've made separate folders for different sets of my games images for ease of organizing, therefore all of my images in the image defining file are structured like "/foldername/file.png"

• i'm trying to make an image consisting of a foreground and background separated out. the offending line is the background image

pictured below are my error message and the code i currently have. "sky" is a transition i made to make the clouds of the bg move a little bit. i was wondering if it might be that im trying to use a transition within a defined image, but removing that and trying to define movement manually didn't do anything to help so i'm not quite sure how i could fix that if thats the issue

[m_from_space]

hii! this is probably gonna be a really simple answer but im having trouble with an image i'm trying to define and i'm not sure what to do to fix it

You cannot put the keyword "at" inside an image definition, it's used inside screens and when showing images.

If you want to apply a transform you can do:

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image airplane = At("airplane2", sky)

Also, if you write multiple lines of images inside an image definition, only the last line will apply, since it overwrites the former images. Multiple images are only useful as part of an animation, like that:

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image airplane:
    "airplane1"
    pause 1.0
    "airplane2"

If you want to have a layered image, you need to create it in this way: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/layeredimage.html

edit:
Or you could also use a composite image: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displaya ... #Composite

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image airplane = Composite((800, 600), (0, 0), "airplane1", (0, 0), At("airplane2", sky))

[neutrino]

oh i totally forgot about layered images, i think ive only used those like once HEJLP., THANK YOU!!
another thing im wondering, can layered images only use at statements for transitions if the transition is in the same .rpy file as the image is? my previous usage of a layered image had an at statement on one of the images for a custom motion i made and that worked fine, but when i try to do the same thing here it still doesnt work so im assuming its a thing of where im defining my transitions..

[m_from_space]

oh i totally forgot about layered images, i think ive only used those like once HEJLP., THANK YOU!!
another thing im wondering, can layered images only use at statements for transitions if the transition is in the same .rpy file as the image is? my previous usage of a layered image had an at statement on one of the images for a custom motion i made and that worked fine, but when i try to do the same thing here it still doesnt work so im assuming its a thing of where im defining my transitions..

Renpy reads .rpy files in alphabetical order (with a default init value of 0 for every image definition, transform etc. in that file). So you either change the filename or you just change the init value, by putting the transform inside an init block with a value lower than 0.

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init -1:
    transform mytrans:
        ...

[neutrino]

OH WOW THANK YOU this is my first time separating my script out into multiple files like this so i had no idea the alphabetical of it was important 0: changing the file name fr my transitions fixed it, tysm!!!