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Hello!

Is it possible to have an animation as the main menu background? - My VN is set in winter and the whole main-menu screen is kind of crappy without falling snow...

Currently is set the background with in options.rpy. mm_root onyl accepts image names, is there a way to use a displayable instead as the mm-background?

Thanks for your help!

Erm, I had the exact same problem..

If it's too complex to use animation, can at least the particle system somehow be used on the menu screen?

mm_root should accept animations. Have you tried something like mm_root=Animation(...)? That _should_ work. If I wanted to use a particle system, I'd do something like:

mm_root=Fixed(
Particle(...),
Image(...))

I'm sorry, I think I'm being a bit dense right now, but if that's the syntax, how can I use at the same time a background picture and SnowBlossom?

luminarious wrote:I'm sorry, I think I'm being a bit dense right now, but if that's the syntax, how can I use at the same time a background picture and SnowBlossom?

The 'Fixed' class which PyTom mentions is a layout class which will contain other displayables, so that when the Fixed is drawn it will draw first one of its parameters, then the other one:

http://renpy.org/wiki/Fixed

Although by the look of the docs there, he got the parameters the wrong way around.

Thank you, got it now!

Thanks a lot! I was mislead by the comment in the template's option.rpy:
which should be changed in that any(?) displayable is accepted. - Anyway thanks again, that saved my day

eh? im lost, im trying to use a gif.... do gif work?

cause i get this error

I think that gifs don't work with renpy.

GIFs don't work as animations in Ren'Py; you need to define your own with the Animation displayable.

And as it goes, the 'error' you posted isn't helpful in the least, Zephiel. All you've given us is the first couple of lines of the stack trace - that is, it's telling us where in your script the error occurred. But since we don't have your script, and we don't know what the error actually was (it's in the same traceback.txt file, further down) we can't really help you just based on that, we have to guess what you're doing wrong. It might be totally unrelated to GIFs for all we know.

When you have a problem, you really need to post the entire traceback.txt file, and it really helps if you post the lines from your script which are causing the error as well. The traceback tells you which line numbers are responsible.

oh, sorry. will gif ever be usable? or wat format is usable?

im trying to ad animation to my main menu.

i apreciate the help

I think (I don't know actually) that renpy doesn't support APNGs (animated PNGs), so this way you're stuck with defining the animation on a per-frame filmstrip basis (which is complicated for longer animations, see http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... .Filmstrip).

It may be a better idea to record your animation as an MPEG-1 video (and keep it as small as possible) and then embed it in a displayable that will show it on the main menu.

zephiel wrote:oh, sorry. will gif ever be usable?

I'm pretty sure PyTom's said he has no plans to implement it.

zephiel wrote: or wat format is usable?

The one I mentioned in my last post, for one - save out your frames individually and assemble them into an Animation displayable. It's really not difficult if you follow the example in the manual.

Compiling your animation into an MPEG1 video will probably be more trouble than it's worth for a short animation, and assembling an Animation displayable frame by frame is probably more trouble than it's worth for a long animation.

IIRC also that when Ren'Py plays MPEG1 videos it hands the audio mixer off to the movie-playing code wholesale, so you can't play any other sounds while your animation is going on.