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by withtheknife
Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: Half a second of a checkerboard screen before the video starts...
Replies: 5
Views: 196

Re: Half a second of a checkerboard screen before the video starts...

You can use a start_image parameter to provide an image which is shown after scene statement executesm but before video starts playing. If you use first frame of your video as that image, it might look better. Another way is only remove old images after movie starts playing. Thanks! How would these...
by withtheknife
Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: Half a second of a checkerboard screen before the video starts...
Replies: 5
Views: 196

Re: Half a second of a checkerboard screen before the video starts...

You can use a start_image parameter to provide an image which is shown after scene statement executesm but before video starts playing. If you use first frame of your video as that image, it might look better. Another way is only remove old images after movie starts playing. Thanks! How would these...
by withtheknife
Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:33 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: Half a second of a checkerboard screen before the video starts...
Replies: 5
Views: 196

Re: Half a second of a checkerboard screen before the video starts...

What you wrote is equivalent to: # scene something is just a shortcut for writing both scene and show statement. scene # clears screen show movie # shows movie WHEN IT LOADS AND DECODES THE FIRST FRAME. Which might take time. You can use scene black fowwlowed by show movie to show black screen befo...
by withtheknife
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:21 am
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: Half a second of a checkerboard screen before the video starts...
Replies: 5
Views: 196

Half a second of a checkerboard screen before the video starts...

I want to use a video as a background, but it doesn't seem to be working! What the code looks like: ------------------------ image movie = Movie(channel="bg-placeholder4", play="images/bg-placeholder4.ogv", size=(1920, 1080), loop=True) [irrelavant code] scene movie play music &q...
by withtheknife
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: How do I change the text size and position with each scene?
Replies: 4
Views: 195

Re: How do I change the text size and position with each scene?

jeffster wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:59 am Since Ren'Py 8.1 you can use speech bubbles:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/bubble.html

I didn't try them myself, but maybe the are what you need.
Seems useful. Thanks.
by withtheknife
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: How do I change the text size and position with each scene?
Replies: 4
Views: 195

Re: How do I change the text size and position with each scene?

EDIT: An idea came to me. Could I define several characters as "none", determine a different x,y locations for them and use them according to each scene? So "i sure love not getting hit by an anvil" is a line from character k and "my boy" is from character c, each with...
by withtheknife
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:34 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: How do I change the text size and position with each scene?
Replies: 4
Views: 195

How do I change the text size and position with each scene?

I'm going for a more distinct style that wouldn't work with a single kind of text. Here's an example. https://i.imgur.com/EaeFpKB.png https://i.imgur.com/dA5nPM8.png You see how the text changed position and size? How do I do that for each scene? Thanks :^) EDIT: An idea came to me. Could I define s...