Preloading images for animation sequence: delay problems

[jwilliams77]

So I've published a few ren'py based games a few months ago, however, what stopped me from doing more was that my animation was taking a long time to load. The code isn't complicated but it does use ~30 images I think because I'm trying to do 30 FPS for my animated scenes.

Is there a way to 'preload' the individual images so that when the animation loads into view it doesn't "hang" or delay? On my mac and on my windows computer the animation starts very slow, as the game seems to pause when the button is clicked prior to the animation loading.

Below is the code I'm using for the animation loop in the game. Any ideas on how to preload or make it "start" faster without a lag would be awesome.

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label finalbonusmenutest:
scene bg bedroom05
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show testonbed

[PyTom]

You should be able to predict this with:

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$ renpy.start_predict("testonbed")

and stop prediction with:

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$ renpy.stop_predict("testonbed")

You'd also have to bump renpy.image_cache_size up to something that can handle 30 images.

That being said, you may want to consider using a movie sprite - you'd probably want to loop the sequence a dozen times, but even doing that you'll likely save space and improve performance.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.ht ... ie-sprites