Displaying day/night sprite with variable

[SundownKid]

I am looking for a way to switch between the day or night versions of a sprite without having to type in "show dude normal night at center". Basically, I am looking to change a variable such as "daytime = True" and have the character sprite automatically switch to the daytime image. Is there any way to do that when you define the image?

[Stainless_Steel]

You could try a condition switch:

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image character = ConditionSwitch(
        "time_of_day == 'day'", "character_day.jpg",
        "time_of_day == 'night'", "character_night.jpg",
        )

then you just switch using the variables

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$ time_of_day= day 
$ time_of_day = night

Though it'd get more complicated if your making the day and night versions by tinting the image in renpy, not sure how you'd do it then.

[junna]

You could try a condition switch:

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image character = ConditionSwitch(
        "time_of_day == 'day'", "character_day.jpg",
        "time_of_day == 'night'", "character_night.jpg",
        )

then you just switch using the variables

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$ time_of_day= day 
$ time_of_day = night

Though it'd get more complicated if your making the day and night versions by tinting the image in renpy, not sure how you'd do it then.

doing it with image tints could mean that you have to tint the characters first

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image characternight = im.MatrixColor("characterday.jpg",
                                       im.matrix.saturation(0.5)*im.matrix.tint(.44,.44,.93)*im.matrix.brightness(-0.05))

(the tint I used is a purplish-blue colour) then using it as...

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image character = ConditionSwitch(
        "time_of_day == 'day'", "character_day.jpg",
        "time_of_day == 'night'", ImageReference ("characternight"),
        )

lol. that was guesswork. but I hope it worked.

[SundownKid]

Thanks! This works perfectly - now my characters can have night versions.