vpunch/hpunch on just one character, and simultaneous events

[delenir]

Hello everyone! I've been messing around with renpy for a few weeks now, and finally decided to break down and ask the experts for some advice...

My first question is about vpunch/hpunch. To put it simply, I'm wondering if there's a way to have this effect occur on just one character/image, rather than the whole screen?

Second question is about having two move events happening at the same time. Namely, having one character do a movein, while at the same time another character is doing a moveout, for a swapping type of effect.

Thank you in advance to anyone who has given my questions a look!

[deliciumartis]

Have you checked here yet?
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/transitions.html
there's a section for multiple transitions that does a pretty good job of explaining the how of it. As to the shake, there's a sample code here:
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/coo ... ake_effect
that should set you in the right direction as to how to do it.

[delenir]

I did see the Phoenix Wright tutorial one, however that still affects the whole screen rather than the individual image. I may need to just experiment a little more with the basic Move command and see if I can manually get the effect I'm after... Thank you for your reply however!

[nyaatrap]

You can apply transition on a specific layer using ren'py.transition() statement.
If you want to apply animations on a single image, use transforms (At clause) instead of transitions (With clause).

[Donmai]

Usually, ATL transforms are more flexible than old transitions. You can use this transform to make a character "tremble" with fear or excitement:

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transform tremble:
        alpha 1.0 xoffset 0
        choice:
            block:
                linear 0.05 xoffset 10
                linear 0.05 xoffset -10
                repeat 2
            block:    
                choice:
                    linear 0.05 xoffset 10
                    linear 0.05 xoffset -10
                    repeat 2
                choice:
                    linear 0.05 xoffset 10
                    linear 0.05 xoffset -10
                    linear 0.05 xoffset 10                    
                    repeat 2
        choice:
            block:
                linear 0.05 xoffset -10
                linear 0.05 xoffset 10
                repeat 2
            block:
                choice:
                    linear 0.05 xoffset -10
                    linear 0.05 xoffset 10
                    repeat 2        
                choice:
                    linear 0.05 xoffset -10                    
                    linear 0.05 xoffset 10
                    linear 0.05 xoffset -10
                    repeat 2
        linear 0.07 xoffset 0

Then you would use it this way:

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show eileen shocked at tremble, center
e "What?"

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/atl.html

[delenir]

Thank you both very much for your replies! I'm glad to know it can be done. I'll try both of those, and do some further research on ATL and transforms, thank you again! I'll be sure to post a reply with my results (hopefully by tomorrow!)