CTCF and Side_Image(RESOLVED + New question!)

[Ruru]

I'm still kinda noobish when it comes to more complex things in Ren'Py (if by noobish you mean dabbling for a few years but never doing much), so I have a question for the masses.

I want to use the code for the "click to continue (fixed)" (ctcf) along with the "side_image" code, so I can have the blinking cursor in the lower right along with the image of the character. I'm not sure how to go about this, so I'm hoping someone can show me the way :3
This is the code I'm using for the "side_image".

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    $ s = Character('Saya',
                        color="#BEE6363",
                        window_left_padding=160,
                        show_side_image=Image("saya_side.png", xalign=0.0, yalign=0.0))

and this is the one I'm using for the "ctcf"

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    $ ctcf = Character('Saya',
                        color="#BEE6363",
                        ctc=anim.Filmstrip("blink.png", (20, 20), (2, 1), .30, xpos=760, ypos=560, xanchor=0, yanchor=0),
                        ctc_position="fixed")

Thanks in advance!

[JQuartz]

This should work. I changed the color cause it was giving an error. Make necessary adjustments to the color if you don't like the color.

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$ s = Character('Saya',
                        color="#BEE636",
                        ctc=anim.Filmstrip("blink.png", (20, 20), (2, 1), .30, xpos=760, ypos=560, xanchor=0, yanchor=0),
                        ctc_position="fixed",window_left_padding=160,show_side_image=Image("saya_side.png", xalign=0.0, yalign=1.0))

[Ruru]

Successfully implemented. Thanks for the help!

Also, do you have any idea why the windows pile atop eachother after I use the "centered" code?

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    show black
    with dissolve

    centered "Chapter 1"
    
    hide black
    with dissolve

Everything after seems to pile up like so:

[monele]

Try "scene black" instead, and make sure black is something like "Solid((0,0,0,255))".

The "pile up" is due to there not being any background (which is not obvious because no background = black too)

[Ruru]

I'm not sure I get what you mean...
Would I define this as a scene as well? And if so, what would be the best way to go about it?

Also, would this issue be resolved when a background is implemented?

[Jake]

I'm not sure I get what you mean...
Would I define this as a scene as well? And if so, what would be the best way to go about it?

Think of it this way - the Ren'Py window is a canvas, and the program paints on it. Every time something changes, it needs to paint from the back upwards - so normally it starts by painting your background, then it paints your characters over the top of the background, then it paints your text box over the characters and then your text over the top of the text box.

The canvas is black before you start, so if you don't set a background, then it starts out black and the first time you display anything, it looks fine. But the next time the scene changes, it goes to paint the background and finds you don't have one, so it just skips that and leaves the whole screen as it was before. Then it paints your characters over the top of your old characters+textbox+text, then it paints your textbox over the top of that, and finally your text... but if there's any places where you would have been able to see through to the background, you'll be able to see through to whatever was on the canvas previously instead. The default text box is semi-transparent, so you can half-see through it to the text that was on the screen before.

If you want a black background, then even though the canvas starts off black by default, you have to set the background to black. If you don't, that black won't get repainted every time anything changes, and you'll keep seeing past the non-existent background to what was there before. So yes, if you set a background (with the 'scene' command) then it'll solve your problem.



'show' is the command Ren'Py uses to show character sprites (and other things on the same level as character sprites). These are added to the current scene, so they're all drawn each time it needs to redraw something.

'scene' changes the scene, and it does so by doing two things. Firstly, it changes the current background to whatever you specify, so "scene black" would change the current background to the solid black BG which I'm pretty sure is set up in the default project (see options.rpy). The second thing it does is remove all of your 'show'n characters, because it's a different scene and the characters were added to the old scene.

[Megaman Z]

BTW, the error from the color (in your original posted script) was due to you having something similar to the following (syntax-wise) in your color specification:

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#rrggbba

this isn't permitted. valid color definitions must be one of the following forms:

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"#rgb"
"#rgba"
"#rrggbb"
"#rrggbbaa"
(r,g,b)
(r,g,b,a)

where r is red (either in hex or (in tuple notation) a value from 0-255), g is green, b is blue, and a is alpha (#F, #FF, or 255 if not specified - aka "FULLY OPAQUE")

just in case you run into that error again.