Dynamic Images, Image Tags, and Transitions

[trooper6]

Greetings!

I have a question about the very exciting new Dynamic Images. (Discussed here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelo ... mic-images)

So let's say you have an image like so:

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define e = Character("Eileen", image = "eileen")

image eileen = LiveComposite(
    (300, 600),
    (0, 0), "eileen_base.png",
    (0, 0), "eileen_eyes_[eyes].png",
    (0, 0), "eileen_mouth_[mouth].png",
    )

I want to ask a bit about changing expressions...specifically, if there is a way to use image tags and or also transitions.
Lets say we have the following eyes: "happy", "angry", "sad" and the following mouths: "grin", "frown"
Let's say I now have a few emotion combinations in my mind:
happy = happy eyes, grin mouth
angry = angry eyes, frown mouth
sad = sad eyes, frown mouth
creepy = angry eyes, grin mouth

So I know I can switch from emotion to emotion like so:

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$eyes, mouth = "happy", "grin"
e "I'm so happy."
$eyes, mouth = "sad", "frown"
e "Now I'm sad."

But how would I get these changes to happen with a dissolve transition?

Also would there be some efficient way for image tags to work without hardcoding each one separately so I could do:

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e happy "I'm so happy."
e sad "I'm so sad."

Note: The reason I don't want to define each image emotion is because I have a really, really large number of options between brows, eyes, and mouth of multiple options.

Any ideas?

[PyTom]

The current implementation can't do this. It's something I'd like to add, but haven't gotten around to yet.

[trooper6]

Oh, that is good to know! I'm glad I didn't miss something that was in the documentation somewhere.
Is this change high, medium, or low on the to do list?

[PyTom]

The list is - kind of a fluid thing. What happens is that ideas sort of percolate in the back of my head for a while - days, weeks, months, years - and one day, it hits me how to do do it _right_. Then I furiously code. So it's hard to really give an idea of when something is going to be done.

I used to keep a more organized list - "this is the top priority thing". I didn't work, since I was forcing myself to code things I knew weren't ready.

[chocoberrie]

The dissolve transition bit for facial expressions can be done using TransitionShowing Switch, but it sure would be amazing and tons easier to do it like this! Looking forward to such a feature being implemented in Ren'Py

[trooper6]

The dissolve transition bit for facial expressions can be done using TransitionShowing Switch, but it sure would be amazing and tons easier to do it like this! Looking forward to such a feature being implemented in Ren'Py

Can you link to the documentation? I can't find TransitionShowing.