{SOLVED} Character Sprites Not Replacing

[WhatNames]

So I was testing the first section of my latest game, and I'm finding that the sprites of my character aren't replacing after a certain spot? I checked the code and it's the same as it is above (where it's working), so I don't know why it's not working...

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    show image "mae skeptic":
        xpos 0.15
    m "What am I, a lawyer?"
    show image "mae quiet":
        xpos 0.15
    m "Something more casual..."
    show image "mae skeptic":
        xpos 0.15
    m "Yo Ma and Eileen, I got some big ol' news for y'all!"
    show image "mae nerves":
        xpos 0.15
    m "Nope. Bad already."
    "I don't care how so far South I am, I am not a Southern belle."
    show image "mae quiet":
        xpos 0.15

Do you guts see anything I'm not? There's no error code or anything when it doesn't replace, it just won't show "mae quiet" for some reason.

Thanks for your help!

[78909087]

Try writing

show mae skeptic:
xpos 0.15
"-------"
show mae quiet:
xpos 0.15

Instead of defining them as images every line... As long as they're defined before the project with the names you use, it should work this way.

[78909087]

Make sure your indentation remains correct!
My phone won't allow me to use the code option in the editor, so I apologize.

[WhatNames]

Try writing

show mae skeptic:
xpos 0.15
"-------"
show mae quiet:
xpos 0.15

Instead of defining them as images every line... As long as they're defined before the project with the names you use, it should work this way.

Okay I tried it... When I input it like that, I get this error for each time I changed it from 'show image' to 'show':

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File "game/script.rpy", line 33: expected 'image_name_component' not found.
    show "mae quiet":
         ^

And for reference, my images are defined like this at the beginning:

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image mae nerves = "maenerves.png"
image mae quiet = "maequiet.png"
image mae realize = "maerealization.png"
image mae skeptic = "maeskeptical.png"

(Plus the images are all in the game folder, not image folder, so that can't be it either.)

It's only about halfway through that mae quiet isn't displayed (which is the code above). Before that it's fine. Any thoughts? :c

[chocoberrie]

Remove the quotation marks, so that you have:

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show mae quiet

instead of:

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show "mae quiet"

So your code would look like this:

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    show mae skeptic:
        xpos 0.15
    m "What am I, a lawyer?"
    show mae quiet:
        xpos 0.15
    m "Something more casual..."
    show mae skeptic:
        xpos 0.15
    m "Yo Ma and Eileen, I got some big ol' news for y'all!"
    show mae nerves:
        xpos 0.15
    m "Nope. Bad already."
    "I don't care how so far South I am, I am not a Southern belle."
    show mae quiet:
        xpos 0.15

Hope this helps!

[WhatNames]

Okay so one thing that works to make the next piece show up is this:

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show image "mae skeptic" at midleft
    m "What am I, a lawyer?"
    hide image "mae skeptic"
    show image "mae quiet" at midleft

This seems to fix the issue, but that's still odd and I'd prefer to just have it replace the other image!
(I also defined midleft so I wouldn't have to retype xpos 0.15 each time.)

Remove the quotation marks, so that you have:

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show mae quiet

instead of:

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show "mae quiet"

So your code would look like this:

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    show mae skeptic:
        xpos 0.15
    m "What am I, a lawyer?"
    show mae quiet:
        xpos 0.15
    m "Something more casual..."
    show mae skeptic:
        xpos 0.15
    m "Yo Ma and Eileen, I got some big ol' news for y'all!"
    show mae nerves:
        xpos 0.15
    m "Nope. Bad already."
    "I don't care how so far South I am, I am not a Southern belle."
    show mae quiet:
        xpos 0.15

Hope this helps!

I attempted this as well, and I got a new error:

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File "game/script.rpy", line 30: Line is indented, but the preceding show statement statement does not expect a block. Please check this line's indentation.
    xpos 0.15
    ^

Thank you anyway!

[chocoberrie]

Instead of using xpos and ypos to position each individual side image, you can use show_side_image along with xalign and yalign to position all the side images for a character before the rest of the script, like this:

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image side e = ("Eileen.png")

define e = Character(show_side_image=Image("Eileen.png", xalign=0.0, yalign=1.0))

With the above code, you can define a side image and its position on the screen. xalign=0.0 and yalign=1.0 would put the side image at the bottom left corner of the screen.

Here's an example script that shows how you can define more than one side image, if you have sprite side images with emotions (e.g. a side image for happy, a side image for sad, etc.):

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# You can place the script of your game in this file.

# Declare images below this line, using the image statement.
# eg. image eileen happy = "eileen_happy.png"

# Declare characters used by this game.

image side c_curious = "cside_curious.png"
image side c_happy = "cside_happy.png"
image side c_embarassed = "cside_embarassed.png"

define c_curious = Character(show_side_image=Image("cside_curious.png", xalign=0.0, yalign=1.0))
define c_happy = Character(show_side_image=Image("cside_happy.png", xalign=0.0, yalign=1.0))
define c_embarassed = Character(show_side_image=Image("cside_embarassed.png", xalign=0.0, yalign=1.0))

# The game starts here.
label start:
    c_curious "You've created a new Ren'Py game."

    c_happy "Once you add a story, pictures, and music, you can release it to the world!"

    return

Each side image is defined as a character, which is kinda tedious to code, but it does work! You would have to be careful how you call the side images in the script.

In order to keep the side images from appearing on top of the text in the dialogue box at the bottom of the screen, find the following code in options.rpy:

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    #########################################
    ## These settings let you customize the window containing the
    ## dialogue and narration, by replacing it with an image.

    ## The background of the window. In a Frame, the two numbers
    ## are the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders,
    ## respectively.

    # style.window.background = Frame("frame.png", 12, 12)

    ## Margin is space surrounding the window, where the background
    ## is not drawn.

    # style.window.left_margin = 6
    # style.window.right_margin = 6
    # style.window.top_margin = 6
    # style.window.bottom_margin = 6

    ## Padding is space inside the window, where the background is
    ## drawn.

    # style.window.left_padding = 6
    # style.window.right_padding = 6
    # style.window.top_padding = 6
    # style.window.bottom_padding = 6

    ## This is the minimum height of the window, including the margins
    ## and padding.

    # style.window.yminimum = 250

You need to do two things: 1) remove the # sign before style.window.left_padding and fix the indentation, and 2) adjust the number after style.window.left_padding to the width, in pixels, of the side image. So if my side image is 200 pixels wide, my code would look like this:

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    #########################################
    ## These settings let you customize the window containing the
    ## dialogue and narration, by replacing it with an image.

    ## The background of the window. In a Frame, the two numbers
    ## are the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders,
    ## respectively.

    # style.window.background = Frame("frame.png", 12, 12)

    ## Margin is space surrounding the window, where the background
    ## is not drawn.

    # style.window.left_margin = 6
    # style.window.right_margin = 6
    # style.window.top_margin = 6
    # style.window.bottom_margin = 6

    ## Padding is space inside the window, where the background is
    ## drawn.

    style.window.left_padding = 200
    # style.window.right_padding = 6
    # style.window.top_padding = 6
    # style.window.bottom_padding = 6

    ## This is the minimum height of the window, including the margins
    ## and padding.

    # style.window.yminimum = 250

[WhatNames]

Instead of using xpos and ypos to position each individual side image, you can use show_side_image along with xalign and yalign to position all the side images for a character before the rest of the script, like this:

This is informative, but not quite the problem I'm trying to fix, sorry! I think I may have written that last post in a confusing order...

I used this code to define the "midleft" position and that was just so I wouldn't have to type xpos 0.15 each time.

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init:
    $ midleft = Position(xpos=0.15, xanchor='left')

When I go and take out the quotes, I get this error:

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File "game/script.rpy", line 36: end of line expected.
    show image mae -> quiet at midleft
                   ^

I can't seem to find a way beyond showing and hiding each sprite to make the next one show up in game. Does anything other than my quotes look out of place?

This is where they stop showing up:

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    show image "mae nerves" at midleft
    m "Nope. Bad already."
    show image "mae realize" at midleft

That is, as long as I put:

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    show image "mae skeptic" at midleft
    m "What am I, a lawyer?"
    hide image "mae skeptic"

Hiding each image usually makes the next one show up, but I'm trying to avoid that since it seems to be breaking after that point...

[chocoberrie]

Hmmm... I'm not sure why I got the impression that you're trying to use side images... Sorry about the confusion XD

You're trying to show regular, full size sprites, one after the other, makes sense!

How about this:

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define c = Character("Celeste", image="celeste")

image celeste happy = "sprites/celeste happy.png"
image celeste curious = "sprites/celeste curious.png"

# The game starts here.
label start:
    show celeste curious
    c "You've created a new Ren'Py game."

    show celeste happy
    c "Once you add a story, pictures, and music, you can release it to the world!"

    return

Defining a character that way makes Ren'Py find all images defined with the variable in quotes after image= so that you don't have to keep defining them explicitly in the rest of the script.

Also, using the show statement makes the sprite appear, as you know. I didn't have to use the hide statement to make the previous sprite disappear before showing another one; it disappears on its own.

Does this help?

[WhatNames]

So before you posted that last reply, I attempted to hide each image I put onscreen just to see if that would fix it. Now, when I press start on the home menu, before I even have put any "show image" besides the background, "mae skeptic" is onscreen. I have no idea why or how she got there, but tada! There she is!

("mae skeptic" isn't even the first mae sprite I show...)

I tried taking out the quotes around each image name and I got this for each one other than the first one:

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File "game/script.rpy", line 36: end of line expected.
    show image mae quiet at midleft
                   ^

When I take out only the first show image "mae realize" quotes, it starts out fine, but then completely ignores any command to show "mae quiet" and will completely skip over some of the other commands to show other expressions. I have no idea how or why it's doing this at this point!

[chocoberrie]

Gosh! That's quite confusing!

I found a solution to your positioning issue! Try defining the xpos=0.15 position with a variable, like this:

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init:
    $ cpos = Position(xpos=0.15)

This bit goes in the same block as the character definitions, at the top of the script, like this:

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init:
    $ cpos = Position(xpos=0.15)
    define c = Character("Celeste", image="celeste")

    image celeste happy = "sprites/celeste happy.png"
    image celeste curious = "sprites/celeste curious.png"

So in the script, if I want my sprite to show up at that position, I'd write:

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    show celeste curious at cpos

Since you want your sprite to be at xpos=0.15 all the time:

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init:
    $ maepos = Position(xpos=0.15)
    define m =Character() <---- your character definition here

    image mae nerves = "maenerves.png"
    image mae quiet = "maequiet.png"
    image mae realize = "maerealization.png"
    image mae skeptic = "maeskeptical.png"

label start:

    show mae skeptic at maepos
    m "What am I, a lawyer?"
    show mae quiet at maepos
    m "Something more casual..."
    show mae skeptic at maepos
    m "Yo Ma and Eileen, I got some big ol' news for y'all!"
    show mae nerves at maepos
    m "Nope. Bad already."
    "I don't care how so far South I am, I am not a Southern belle."
    show mae quiet at maepos

Of course, you can use any label, it doesn't have to be maepos. Just don't put any spaces in it! Hope this helps

[WhatNames]

Ack! I've got the positioning down; I defined it like this:

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init:
    $ midleft = Position(xpos=0.15, xanchor='left')

And that's working very well, thank goodness!

Unfortunately, it still won't show my character as I'm telling it to, and is completely ignoring "mae quiet" along with a few other seemingly random commands.

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label start:
    scene bg maeroom1
    play music "heavy_rain.ogg"    
    "The rain is pouring down onto the roof of my house."
    "It's been like that for an hour or so."
    "Ma and Eileen called me earlier."
    "They said it was storming so bad where they were that they wouldn't be able to make it home tonight, maybe even tomorrow."
    "I guess that comes with being the vet for all the local ranches."
    show mae realize at midleft
    with dissolve
    m "Long drives..."
    "I shift my laptop over to my other leg and rearrange the blankets on my bed."
    show image "mae quiet" at midleft
    m "At least it gives me more time to figure out what to tell them."
    "I've been working on and off on my 'speech' for a few days now."
    "And by working I mean wildly avoiding and procrastinating about it."
    show image "mae nerves" at midleft
    m "Why is this so hard?"
    "I lean my head against the wall."
    "Sadly, it doesn't offer any help."
    show image "mae quiet" at midleft
    m "Okay, one more time..."
    play sound "keyboard.mp3"
    m "Dear Ma and Eileen. It has been my intention for a while to inform you..."
    stop sound
    "..."
    show image "mae skeptic" at midleft
    m "What am I, a lawyer?"
    show image "mae quiet" at midleft
    m "Something more casual..."
    show image "mae skeptic" at midleft
    play sound "keyboard.mp3"
    m "Yo Ma and Eileen, I got some big ol' news for y'all!"
    stop sound
    show image "mae nerves" at midleft
    m "Nope. Bad already."
    show image "mae realize" at midleft
    "I don't care how so far South I am, I am not a Southern belle."
    show image "mae quiet" at midleft
    "I sigh."
    m "Let's try this again."

That's all the code up to where things start getting wonky and not showing up...

[chocoberrie]

Hmmm... Well, you seem to be making images show differently, coding-wise.

You have show mae realize at midleft early on in your script, and then every other image statement after that is show image "mae _____". Maybe this is the source of the issue?

Try using the first show statement (e.g. show mae quiet at midleft) instead of putting the image and quotations bit. You got the positioning to work, which is good!

[WhatNames]

IT WORKED
OH THANK GOODNESS
THANK YOU
I tried running it and it didn't work at first, but I think I missed one or two that had show image "blahs" in them but once I found and changed them it works like a dream.
Thank you so much! c: