Active Speaker Project

[demwilson]

I was asked by a friend to make it easy to tell who is talking with a slight glance at the screen.

This turned into the Active Speaker Project:
https://gitlab.com/demwilson/active_speaker

I accomplish the task by rendering the person talking normally while rendering the inactive characters with a dimmer (AlphaMask).
The code above contains how to implement active speaking in a visual novel, while attempting to reduce the amount of code required to handle rendering scenes using the active speaker concept.
Another minor goal is to accomplish this while keeping the number of required images low.

There are other Ren'Py features used in the code as well:
* Creator-Defined Statements - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/cds.html
* Movement based transforms - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/transforms.html
* AlphaMask - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displaya ... #AlphaMask
* Basic Composite - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displaya ... #Composite
* Image Flip - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displaya ... ml#im.Flip
* ConditionSwitch - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displaya ... tionSwitch

If you want to see how it works before looking through the code, here is a demo of how active speaker works when the project is run with Ren'Py:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DVYmCpjSX0

I'm using assets from generous artists and musicians in the Ren'Py community, please support them, if you can.
Assets:
* Wisteria Sprite - (https://liah0227.itch.io/wisteria) by Liah (https://liah0227.itch.io/)
* Hoshiko Sprite - (https://liah0227.itch.io/hoshiko) by Liah (https://liah0227.itch.io/)
* Megalopolitan Education Background - (viewtopic.php?f=52&t=33202&p=413452&hil ... 40#p413452) by Uncle Mugen (https://alte.itch.io/uncle-mugens-backgrounds)

Music:
* As the Wind Carries (https://kinetiklee.bandcamp.com/track/a ... nd-carries) by Kinetik Lee (https://soundcloud.com/kinetik-lee)

I'm still new to Ren'Py, and I'm looking to improve, so if I missed something, or you have suggestions, please feel free to post a comment, or even send over a pull/merge request.

[quillyquillquill]

Hey, thank you so much for sharing this! Really like the way you've organized the code.

[Morhighan]

Thank you for sharing this, it's very likely I'll make use of it in the future.