Animated Main Menu

[deltazechs]

I have a question about the main menu. I heard somewhere before that it's possible to have an animated background when the main menu is displayed (aka showing a simple list of images at decided intervals)

How do you do that? Thank you for any help provided.

[monele]

Mm... haven't tried but maybe this is it :

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init:
    $ animmenu = Animation("1.jpg", 2.0, "2.jpg", 2.0, "3.jpg", 2.0)
    
    $ style.mm_root.background = animmenu

If it's not mm_root, try gm_root. And of course, replace "*.jpg" by your pictures... and "2.0" by the time in seconds you want them to be displayed. The animation will loop.

[deltazechs]

thank you, i will give this a try then

[DaFool]

Hmmm...my test mule has something like this:

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    $ titlefader = Animation("amano1.jpg", 4.00, "amano2.jpg", 4.00)
    $ style.mm_root.background = LiveComposite((800,600), (0, 120), titlefader, )

where amano1 and amano2 are 800x340, so they appear as if in widescreen.

[Senpai88]

Say I wanted to have a still background and then have smaller images cycle on the left side of the screen, how would I do this? Could I just add "at left," or is it more complicated?

[DaFool]

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    $ wowanime = anim.Filmstrip(
             "romanclub.jpg",
             (400,600),
             (3,2),
             5, 6, True, ) 
    $ title = ui.text("Test Mule", size = 24, color = (160, 160, 160, 255))
    $ style.mm_root.background = LiveComposite((800, 600), (0, 0), wowanime, (444, 44), "bluehairvp3.jpg", (.55, .60), title, )

Image bluehairvp3 is 312x300, romanclub.jpg is 1200x1200, a single image that is used as a filmstrip since it is 2 rows tall and 3 columns wide

The filmstrip image is displayed on the left side of the screen, while the stationary image is on the right. They are all live-composited together, including the Title.

My Test Mule is currently set for other settings, so I haven't had a chance to reactivate this code, but it should work.

EDIT: my example uses the default black background. In your case I guess your BG will take the place of bluehairvp3 and will be positioned as full-size.

[frumplstlskn]

I have a question about the main menu. I heard somewhere before that it's possible to have an animated background when the main menu is displayed (aka showing a simple list of images at decided intervals)

How do you do that? Thank you for any help provided.

You can make a clip in windows movie maker. Just insert the pictures, decide the timings and save it in a video format compatible with Renpy. Then you can insert it into your code, set it to loop and hopefully have the effect you were going for (I can't give you any of the actual code because I haven't learnt much Renpy script yet ^^;).

[PyTom]

DaFool >>> For big stuff, it's better to use many images then one Filmstrip. IIRC, the filmstrip takes up twice as much memory as the small images.

frumplstlskn >>> I recommend against using a movie as the main menu background. While theoretically supported, in practice it doesn't work too well when there's something on top of the menu. (When a menu is full-window, then we use hardware acceleration, if possible.)