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#1 Post by pyopyon » Sun Dec 15, 2013 11:14 pm

(Former Title) "What's a good way to show nighttime to daytime transitions?"

So my game is split up into four individual game "days", and I was trying to think of a way to show that the day is ending/ the protagonist is going to sleep and the day is starting up/ the protagonist wakes up.

Right now I have simple 'scene black with fade' like text (code below) but the next transition is so fast that I feel as though it's not effective.

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label nighthyun:
    
    pov "Night."
                
    ch "Night, [povname!t]."
    
    scene black with fade
    
    "You settle into your bed sheets."
    
    pov "Not too bad for my first day..."
    
    "Your mind goes back to your early conversation with Chanyeol."
    
    ch "{i}I think that he needs to open up more, considering what happened with--{/i}"
    
    "...Hm."
    
    "Considering what happened with... what, exactly?"
    
    "What was it that he was going to say about Baekhyun?"
    
    "Mind occupied by the mystery, you drift off to sleep."
    
    jump baek_day2
And then the follow-up:

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label baek_day2:
    $ baekpath = "yes"
    ## meet up with D.O. on this day!
    stop music
    
    play music "Lucky.mp3"
    
    scene bedroom with fade
    
    "It's morning, and your mind buzzes with thoughts of Baekhyun."
Any ideas?
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Re: What's a good way to show nighttime to daytime transitio

#2 Post by SundownKid » Sun Dec 15, 2013 11:18 pm

Add a title card/sound effect to show the day is over or the next one started? Like "Day 2" popping up.

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Re: What's a good way to show nighttime to daytime transitio

#3 Post by pyopyon » Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:43 am

.....wow, I didn't think of that, haha.

Added some page transitions that say "Day 2" in funky script. //huzzah

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