How to make an image appear via dissolve w textbox in tact

[pyopyon]

So, I was playing Rune Factory 4 and I thought it was really cute that when characters blush, the blush appears on their cheeks via some sort of dissolve function, like it fades in-- I wanted to implement that in my own game but it comes out like this:





In essence, the text box will disappear, the blush will dissolve in, and then the textbox will reappear. Anything I can do to prevent this while keeping in the dissolving blush effect?

[trooper6]

Could you show your code? Within [ code][ /code] tags please (without the spaces).

[pyopyon]

Ah, right.

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            show ba_6
            
            show ba_b with dissolve
            
            ba "..."
            
            $ pov_expr = "mhm"
            
            pov ".....?"
            
            hide ba_b
            
            hide ba_6

[Darim]

You can insert a pause after show ba_b with dissolve this will prevent that the textbox appears.

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            show ba_6
            
            show ba_b with dissolve
            
            $ renpy.pause(3.0)            

            ba "..."
            
            $ pov_expr = "mhm"
            
            pov ".....?"
            
            hide ba_b
            
            hide ba_6

[pyopyon]

I tried that and it just made the textbox delay for three seconds.

[trooper6]

So I need to ask you a few questions about how you are doing things.

You have two images, ba_6 and ba_b
You also have the character ba.

1) Could you show the code where you define those three things?
2) What exactly are those images? Are they both the full sprite but the second one is full sprite plus blush? Is the first one the sprite and the second just the blush? How exactly have you set up the art? Because I would give you different advice depending on what the answer to that question is.

[nyaatrap]

I don't understand fully what you want to do, but most of transition problem is came from With statement layer problem - it can't control layers.
I don't know why the general With statement can't have layer property. Anyway, you have to use renpy.transition() statement instead of With statement.
(I'm using renpy.transtion instead of with statement in 90% of case in my game. with statement is useless because of no layer statement)

[trooper6]

Oh also, another quick question to clarify what you want to happen. Do you want the text box to stay visible the entire time? If you do, try putting:

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window show

Right after your label start.