[Solved!] Continuous shake effect?

[teacup]

Very sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't find it ;w;
Anyway. I know how to do the shake effect.

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    m2 "{size=+35}KYAAAAAA!!!{/size}"
    show c1 
    with Shake((0.5, 1.0, 0.5, 1.0), 1.0, dist=5)
    "My feet let go of the edge of the staircase and I let out a scream."

But what I'm wondering is if the screen can be shaking continuously while text goes across the screen? Because right now, I can only get the screen to shake, stop, then the text appears. So what I'm wondering is if I can get this to happen... simultaneously.
If not, that's cool. I just thought it would make it seem more realistic XD

[fioricca]

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/coo ... ake_effect

[teacup]

<.< I've already looked at that. It doesn't answer my question though (or if it does, I guess I'm just blind and I don't see it?)

[Camille]

If you apply the shake effect to the background/image itself, it should work? It would instead be

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show c1 at Shake((0.5, 1.0, 0.5, 1.0), 1.0, dist=5)

[Alex]

The answer is - ATL, 'cause ATL transforms do not interupt game flow.
You can try smth like:

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init:
    transform my_shake:
        linear 0.1 xoffset -2 yoffset 2 
        linear 0.1 xoffset 3 yoffset -3 
        linear 0.1 xoffset 2 yoffset -2
        linear 0.1 xoffset -3 yoffset 3
        linear 0.1 xoffset 0 yoffset 0
        repeat
label start:
    scene bg at my_shake
    "Looks like BG is shaking..."
    "..."

[teacup]

@Camille
That actually did the same thing as before. I guess 'with shake' and 'at shake' are the same thing :p
@Alex
Sweet, this worked Thank you sir!

[Camille]

@Camille
That actually did the same thing as before. I guess 'with shake' and 'at shake' are the same thing :p
@Alex
Sweet, this worked Thank you sir!

That's strange, because I use that exact same code in my own VN (for an explosion) and it works fine for me. ^^; I'm glad you got something to work for you, though!

[017Bluefield]

Tried this...

The answer is - ATL, 'cause ATL transforms do not interupt game flow.
You can try smth like:

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init:
    transform my_shake:
        linear 0.1 xoffset -2 yoffset 2 
        linear 0.1 xoffset 3 yoffset -3 
        linear 0.1 xoffset 2 yoffset -2
        linear 0.1 xoffset -3 yoffset 3
        linear 0.1 xoffset 0 yoffset 0
        repeat
label start:
    scene bg at my_shake
    "Looks like BG is shaking..."
    "..."

..but it kept giving me an error that there was no "comma or end of line" at the return line.

[Alex]

Hm, show the actual code you use, 'cause this code gave me no errors.

[017Bluefield]

Wait--I just noticed the repeat line. I thought that said return.

[017Bluefield]

Okay, so I got it to work, even though I had to stitch an init: block onto the beginning of the script file.

So, that raises two questions:

1. Is there a smoother way of organizing the init and the defines together if they're going to all be in the beginning of the file?
2. How do I get the shaking to stop/last a second or so before stopping?

[kivik]

1. not sure what you mean by that? You can just put them at the start of the file if you want, or at the end, long as they're outside labels. You can even create a separate .rpy file and put all your init and defines in there.

2. I don't see how pausing a second would be noticeable by your players - considering everything else will continue happening so the pause won't be perceivable.

If you meant you want it to shake, then pause for a second, before shaking again on repeat then you put a pause 1.0 above the repeat statement.

[017Bluefield]

For 1.: Huh, I see. Maybe I'll try that. I dunno, putting in an init block just felt really clumsy, at least to me.

For 2.: Well, I was asking more about stopping the shaking, because once I called it, it wouldn't stop. Let me guess, though: I have to call scene already_shaken_room at center?

[kivik]

If you want to stop the shaking, then try ditching the repeat line first (that's what makes it continuous), but you'll probably find it too short then - then you can ask it to repeat a fixed number of times - try repeat 2, repeat 5, repeat 10, until you're happy with the result

[017Bluefield]

If you want to stop the shaking, then try ditching the repeat line first (that's what makes it continuous), but you'll probably find it too short then - then you can ask it to repeat a fixed number of times - try repeat 2, repeat 5, repeat 10, until you're happy with the result

Ah, okay.

One last thing, about the empty screen behind the scene image during the shake: can I hide it by making the scene image bigger?