Page Flip Animation?

[Windchimes]

Hi there!

So I'm rather new to the whole idea of ATL. I was reading on it in the documentation/some relevant pages but I can't really find what I need (or I'm just too dumb to even realize it was what I needed.) What I'm trying to do is just, when it goes from main menu to start, the transition is something of a page flip, starting from bottom right corner. I have no idea where to even begin with this though.

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much!

[xela]

I don't believe that there are ready to use tools available for this... you could try and do something with UDD but it'll be very tricky and complicated.

[Onishion]

I have no idea how to go about this in Renpy. Maybe hand drawing an animated sequence of a page flipping, then using it as an alpha for the screen as the new one is shown behind it? I think that would be possible, but it'd be a lot of work.

[xela]

I'd load main screen/start screens into memory, Transform crop them into lines and use zoom/movement effect updated through UDD to flip them. Performance may be an issue... and I am not entirely sure how to get to the next screen (start) from previous (main) before starting the process

There should be a better way and PyTom promised something along the lines of these kinds of transitions in future releases (he'd know how to do the damn thing properly) but if the goal is to get one now, I'd start with a UDD/Transform cut between two images, code for that is fairly simple and if performance is an issue, pixel width of a single line can be increased. That should work out and since Transform doesn't care what it cuts, next step would be figuring out a good way to do that between statements, over entire layers... I am clueless about this step, never touched that stuff before. First step with line-cutting/zooming is easy, I have seen on forums and worked with somewhat similar stuff which performed quite well at decent speed.

[Jae]

It's not really a page flip, but maybe it can be a temporary animation of some sort?

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init -1 python:
    flipfade = ImageDissolve(im.Tile("TransCornerFlip.jpg"), 1.5, 16)

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label start:
    scene blank2
    
    show page1 at center
    
    show girl norm at left
    e "I wonder what's on the next page."
    
    show page2 with flipfade
    
    show girl happy
    e "Oh. That's...{w=0.25} interesting?"
    
    return

[Onishion]

Nifty illusion. Kudos.

[Windchimes]

Oh I had no idea it'd be that difficult x: It's alright I guess. I like the temporary animation though. I'll probably use it for some pics transitions. Thank you!