Adversity Comp - Visual Novel Writing Contest - Sept 2012

[TKC]

What I've found that works best for me has been:

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    show girlsprite glare:
        crop (0, 130, 700, 700)
        align (0.5, 0.0)

Hope that helps.

[Akjosch]

Would someone be kind enough to give a Ren'Py newbie a way to show the spirit's head and body without the screen chopping off the top of her head? My entry's progressing nicely, but every I show the sprite you can't see those cat ears.

For example, in the "init" block at the start of the file:

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    transform my_left:
        crop (0, 130, 700, 700)
        align (-0.5, 0.0)
    transform my_center:
        crop (0, 130, 700, 700)
        align (0.0, 0.0)
    transform my_right:
        crop (0, 130, 700, 700)
        align (0.5, 0.0)

Usage in the actual scene:

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    show girlsprite confused at my_left

If you want a small "fade in/fade out" effect with that, this looks for example like that.

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    transform my_left:
        crop (0, 130, 700, 700)
        align (-0.5, 0.0)
        alpha 0.0
        on show:
            linear 0.5 alpha 1.0
        on hide:
            pause 0.5
            linear 0.5 alpha 0.0

[LieselSolo]

What I've found that works best for me has been:

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    show girlsprite glare:
        crop (0, 130, 700, 700)
        align (0.5, 0.0)

Hope that helps.

That worked! Thanks so much!

[papillon]

(There are also commands to resize/rescale graphics which may be handy. )

[Mink]

...Now I feel like the way I changed the sprite's image is really stupid.

But it's the story that counts, right? And as long as it works? >_>

[papillon]

As long as it works, yes!

[OokamiKasumi]

...Now I feel like the way I changed the sprite's image is really stupid.

But it's the story that counts, right? And as long as it works? >_>

I feel your pain. I kind of went around my as- err... butt to get to my elbow to make the sprite fit. (And chop off that &%$& mobile hanging over its head.)

[Mink]

Ha ha, I just feel silly because everyone else is like, "This is my code." and I'm like, "Uh...I just changed the numbers so it moved down." Hooray for taking shortcuts!

You guys, never ask me how I program stuff, because half the time I don't even know; I just mess with it until it works somehow. And yet I still think programming is fun, for some reason.

[OokamiKasumi]

Ha ha, I just feel silly because everyone else is like, "This is my code." and I'm like, "Uh...I just changed the numbers so it moved down." Hooray for taking shortcuts!

OMG! That's exactly what I did LOL!

You guys, never ask me how I program stuff, because half the time I don't even know; I just mess with it until it works somehow. And yet I still think programming is fun, for some reason.

Programming is like a foreign language to me; Sometimes it actually makes sense. But yeah, I generally mess with things until I get it right.

Sadly, AFTER I turned in my finished game, I figured out the ATL to actually rescale the image. Sigh...

[Blane Doyle]

All I did was change the numbers to move my sprite down too... I thought that was a lot easier and faster once I got it the way I wanted it. Only took me about a minute.

I don't trust myself to properly program, honestly.

[OokamiKasumi]

All I did was change the numbers to move my sprite down too... I thought that was a lot easier and faster once I got it the way I wanted it. Only took me about a minute.

I don't trust myself to properly program, honestly.

Neither do I. It my first time working with a sprite that changed expressions, so merely adjusting the numbers and displaying it in a fixed position worked for me. It's not like I needed it to move around, or anything.

[Mink]

Yeah, there's stuff I'd like to try to attempt to get the sprite to do using ATL, but I 1) don't know ATL, and 2) feel as if even if I did, my RPY file would turn into a giant mess.

Plus, the way I normally code stuff is to have the (main) story all in one file, and other code in another file (or files, because I'm anal), so that if I mess up, I don't have to go through lines and lines trying to see if one thing messed up another. Also, it just looks neater.

On a different note, this contest really is about adversity; I want to do too much. On the other hand, I'm out of the writer's block I was having.

[Sapphi]

Are any of the 00 ones Feldt? Because I liked Feldt. And the lady in charge whose name I can't remember ATM. /off-topic

Sorry, nope... I do have two Lacus..es (Lacii? ), two Lunamarias, a Cagalli, a Miriallia, and a Nena. And I don't know much about them other than their names. XD

@Papillon: Are we allowed to redefine the images or are we forced to use them as they're defined in the main script? I'm fuzzy on what exactly "any personal resources, etc, that your entry needs" entails...

[papillon]

You can write your own image definitions as long as you do it in your own rpy file, since anything you change in the script.rpy would not be submitted with your entry and would thus not work.

[Sapphi]

Yippee! Thanks! ^_^