[solved] Image declaration/initialisation

[Ayutac]

Hello there, long time not read.

A new project usually has this line in script.rpy

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## You can place the script of your game in this file.

## Declare images below this line, using the image statement.
## eg. image eileen happy = "eileen_happy.png"

I did so and it is the only place in my whole script which is neither in an init/early block nor behind a label which is jumped to from within the game.

But by now I have about 100 images to be loaded and I would like to put it outside the script. How do I do this without breaking anything (in the sense of save issues, which I had a lot in the past; fixed through)?
And when is this part run through?
Same for the character declaration block which follows after the images:

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## Declare characters used by this game.
## In general, we will have two Variables for a character: 
## The one with data (Python-based) and the one to look at and speak with (Ren'Py-based).
## The first's name will start with a small letter and the last with a big letter.

[Elmiwisa]

What's wrong with declaring image and define character in an init block?
After all, image declaration and character definition always run in an init block even if you don't explicitly put them in one. Only image declaration is slightly strange because it would have priority 990 instead of 0 if you don't explicitly put it in an init block, but I doubted that you do anything unusual enough for it to matter.
Beside, if you don't indent the line, then they are never part of any block. No matter where you put them.

[Ayutac]

so no indent is priority 990 or only the images? Anyway, thanks for the information. I'll just keep them at init 800 to be sure.

[Elmiwisa]

The image only.
When using image statement, it's priority 990.
When using define statement (whether character or anything else), it's priority 0.
I am guessing the image is default to priority 990 because unless you do something very unusual, there is literally no way to actually use an image in an init block, but there is a lot of situation where in order to declare an image you need to use something else first. Hence image is declared as late as possible.