Automatically Hide + Show NVL Window When Image Changes?

[DaBackpack]

Hi all, I'm working on a NVL VN (consider it a late NaNoReNo project ^^;;;;;;) and have a question about dialogue and character images.

For example, in Higurashi and Umineko, whenever a speaking character's image changes, the text window will hide + show for a split-second before displaying new text. This is used to emphasize changes in character emotion, e.g. a character's facial expression changing.

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hideyoshi normal "I am a useless character." 
window hide 
pause(.1) 
window show
hideyoshi sad "At least my family isn't going to all die in an accident anytime soon." 

Is there a configuration setting or a callback function I can write which does this automatically? It seems a little tedious to have those middle lines every time a character's image changes.

Thanks!!

[namastaii]

You can probably just define the transition as a whole (by combining all three steps hide, pause, and show again) and then type just one line when the character changes. I'm not sure if you'd be able to get away with creating something where the game will automatically know when to do the transition without your say.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/transitions.html

Something like this example:

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define logodissolve = MultipleTransition([
    False, Dissolve(0.5)
    "logo.jpg", Pause(1.0),
    "logo.jpg", dissolve,
    True])

but directed at window instead. (which I think you can do but I haven't tried it)
and obviously not really about dissolving, but hiding and showing
I hope this helps. Sorry if it doesn't.