2 characters appearing at the same time?

[Cybeat]

(Ah, finally the right thread). Anyway, is it possible to have 2 characters appearing on the screen at the same time? If so, how do I do it?

[Twar3Draconis]

Would you not just show a character?

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show blahone normal at right
show blahtwo normal at left

?

[000]

(Ah, finally the right thread). Anyway, is it possible to have 2 characters appearing on the screen at the same time? If so, how do I do it?

???
You cannot talk about two character images, right?
So, what do you want, two text windows with different characters' lines? or something other?

[Cybeat]

No, not like that. I mean, when I want 2 character image to appear, I want them to appear simultaneously. If I did

show character1 with dissolve
show character2 with dissolve

character2 appears after character1, not at the same time.

[akemicchi]

You can just do what Twar3Draconis said and just show the characters without dissolve... 8D;

But as for having multiple images with transitions appear simultaneously... Well, I have no idea how you could do that; maybe someone else knows. XD; Doesn't Ren'Py finish the transition before continuing on to the next line??


EDIT:
Have you considered just keeping the effect of them appearing one after the other, or is that out of the question? Because I think having them appear separately could be a nice effect, too~

[Mochiron]

This works for me. Both characters dissolve at the same time.

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   show character1 at left
   show character2 at right
   with dissolve

[chronoluminaire]

Yes, Mochiron's way to do it is the right way.

The thing is,

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show char1 with dissolve

is just a convenient Ren'Py shortcut for

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with None
show char1
with dissolve

Which means "finish everything on the previous lines, and then show char1 with dissolve".
The thing is, this means

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show char1 with dissolve
show char2 with dissolve

is the same as:

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with None
show char1
with dissolve
with None
show char2
with dissolve

Which dissolves in char1, then dissolves in char2.

If you want to make them both dissolve in at the same time, then you need to put the with statement on its own line:

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with None
show char1
show char2
with dissolve

And you usually don't need the "with None" at the start.

[Cybeat]

@chronoluminaire and Mochiron: Thanks. It worked.