Issue with loading images

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Hello, I just started with Ren'py yesterday and an really enjoying it. I'm just about done with the demo I'm working on, however I've encountered a small issue. And do forgive me if this is painfully obvious stuff.

I'm having issues loading the same images twice. All of my images are static and I'm using the "load imgx" function to bring them up followed by the text for the respective section.

However it seems to only let me be using an image once. Also, for some reason it's just completely ignoring one of my images.

Here's an example of an image not loading more than once

First place:

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    show img1
    
    m "Hi!"
    
    show img2
    
    m "I'm Millie."

etc. That loads just fine. But later,

Second, trouble area:

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    show img49
    
    s "H-hey!  Wait up!"
    
    show img1
    
    m "And with that, we were off on an adventure!"

It keeps img49 on the screen and continues the dialogue. And it also refuses to bring up any additional images such as the final screen which is right after the dialogue

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    show img50demo
    
    stop music fadeout 5.0
    
    nar "Thanks for playing our demo!  I hope you enjoyed it and are looking forward to the full version!"

It still stick with img49.

So any help would be appreciated. I need img1 loaded several times, as it's just a blank image. I tried making copies and renaming them and that seemed to work, but I would like to keep it to as few images as possible to save o space.

Thanks.

[FrozenApple66]

What may help is if you put hide img49 before show img1 (this is just a guess I don't know what load imgx means)

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What may help is if you put hide img49 before show img1 (this is just a guess I don't know what load imgx means)

Yes, this worked perfectly. Except I had to go back and do it for every image. Turns out by the end I had a good 45 images loaded on top of each other lol.

Thanks for the suggestion. It helped out.

[Showsni]

For future reference, if your images have the same tag then they'll replace each other when you show them - for example, if you have

image girl happy = "girlh.jpg"
image girl sad = "girls.jpg"

Then when you do

show girl happy
g "I'm happy!"
show girl sad
g "Now I'm sad."

Then the second sad image will automatically replace the happy one because they're both tagged girl.


Edit:

And if your images are of the fullscreen variety that are only showing one at a time, you probably want to use "scene" intead of show.

scene beach
"We're at the beach!"
scene shop
"We're in a shop!"

and so on. Scene, unlike show, removes all the displayables currently on the layer. So if you want to quickly fix your current project instead of going back over everything manually, you can try doing a find and replace and changing every instance of show to scene.

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Wow, that last part will be a huge help for my next project. Thanks a bunch.