Side image,condition switch problems

[JitterySlob]

Hi
I wanted to have my main character change expressions(even when not talking),while being a side image and came across Donmai's condition switch idea on another topic.
viewtopic.php?p=294991#p294991

but when I try applying it to my own script I can't seem to get the image to appear.

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## The script of the game goes in this file.
image side Malie ouch = "Malie ouch.png"
image side Malie smile = "Malie smile.png"

define m = Character('Malie',color = "#c8ffc8")

$ m = Character('Malie', color='#aa4933', show_side_image=ConditionSwitch('mood==0', 'Malie ouch', 'mood==1', 'Malie smile', xalign=0, yalign=1.0), window_left_padding=160)


## The game starts here.

label start:
    init:
        $ mood = 0
        
m "ouch"
$ mood = 1
m "smile"

I know side image problems get asked a lot,and I apologize in advance for missing something i'm sure is very obvious.
Could someone please tell me what I've missed or need to adjust?

[firecat]

this must be another gui bug, if you using renpy 6.99.11 go back a version and maybe it should be fix. you dont need to restart, just go download an older version and your game file will work unless are you using the new GUI which case its a bug.

[indoneko]

I tried your code and it didn't work, but after I remove the one in bold :

image side Malie ouch = "Malie ouch.png"
image side Malie smile = "Malie smile.png"

It works

[JitterySlob]

uh sorry to bother again but I tried what you said indoneko and it didn't seem to make a difference.
(Oh should probably mention,that it does gives the space for an image by the name with the code)

[indoneko]

Ah... sorry, I forgot to mention that I also added init: on the top of your code, so it will look like this (I also changed the image filename to make it simpler) :

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init :
    image Malie ouch = "ouch.png"
    image Malie smile = "smile.png"
    define m = Character('Malie',color = "#c8ffc8")
    $ m = Character('Malie', color='#aa4933', show_side_image=ConditionSwitch('mood==0', 'Malie ouch', 'mood==1', 'Malie smile', xalign=0, yalign=1.0), window_left_padding=160)
 
label start:
    init :
        $ mood = 0
m "ouch"
$ mood = 1
m "smile"

return

goodluck~ :3

[JitterySlob]

I swear I copied ur code exactly, and changed my file names to what you changed it to but I get this now:

Exception:Unknown keyword arguments:side_image

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[code]
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 13, in script
    m "ouch"
Exception: Unknown keyword arguments: side_image

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 13, in script
    m "ouch"
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 603, in execute
    renpy.exports.say(who, what, interact=self.interact)
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\exports.py", line 1135, in say
    who(what, interact=interact)
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\character.py", line 873, in __call__
    self.do_display(who, what, cb_args=self.cb_args, **display_args)
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\character.py", line 719, in do_display
    **display_args)
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\character.py", line 484, in display_say
    what_text = show_function(who, what_string)
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\character.py", line 702, in do_show
    **self.show_args)
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\character.py", line 282, in show_display_say
    return renpy.display.screen.get_widget(screen, "what", layer)
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\display\screen.py", line 1176, in get_widget
    screen.update()
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\display\screen.py", line 573, in update
    self.screen.function(**self.scope)
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 148, in apply_arguments
    return parameters.apply(args, kwargs, ignore_errors)
  File "C:\Users\Sheyenne\Downloads\renpy-6.99.11-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 136, in apply
    raise Exception("Unknown keyword arguments: %s" % ( ", ".join(values.keys())))
Exception: Unknown keyword arguments: side_image

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.11.1749
test 1.0

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[xela]

Ok... so what's happening here is that the docs did not have time to catch up to the new Ren'Py version:

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Some useful show_ variables implemented by the default screens are:

show_side_image
    When given a Displayable, shows that displayable when the dialogue is shown. The position of that displayable is controlled by its position properties. This is often used to show an image of the speaking character to the side of the dialogue.
show_two_window
    If true, restructures the layout so that the name of the character is placed in one window, and the dialogue text in a second window.

This is no longer a thing as it mostly mimics Ren'Py's real functionally of managing SideImage internally and caused a lot of confusion in the past as people kept mixing them up. You can still "link" images to a character using "image" positional argument but there are no longer a special "show_" defined in the code for you. So you can:

- Extend modern say screen with side_image positional argument.
- Copy/paste screen from older Ren'Py version but will loose some of the modern functionality.
- Use "image" linking instead as described here:

Linked Image An image tag may be associated with a Character. This allows a say statement involving this character to display an image with the tag, and also allows Ren'Py to automatically select a side image to show when this character speaks.

image
A string giving the image tag that is linked with this character.

[xela]

For example:

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image side e green = Solid("#008000", xysize=(100, 100))
image side e red = Solid("#FF0000", xysize=(100, 100))

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

label start:
    e green "Green Now!"
    e "Still green!"
    
    e red "Switching to red!"
    return

This is how side images were meant to be used, you can still add a ConditionSwitch or whatever you please in there, like:

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image side e automood = ConditionSwitch('mood==0', 'Malie ouch', 'mood==1', 'Malie smile', xalign=0, yalign=1.0)

and:

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    e automood "..."

[JitterySlob]

ah thank you!