A shimmying effect

[crimsonnight]

Hey guys,

I have a scene in my novel where someone's trying to shimmy through a small hole - it's quite an intense scene so it'd be great if there was an effect I could use with it. I have been chatting with TheSHAD0W in the IRC, and we have gotten close with a modified hpunch transition (applied to 'layer master'):

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define shimmy = Move((50, 0), (-50, 0), 1.5, bounce=True, repeat=True, delay=None)

To make it more realistic though, I need to add a random pause in between the 'Move's - does anyone know how I can do this? It would also be nice if it smoothly moved the screen to the left instead of instantly jumping there when the effect is called.

We also tried an ATL statement:

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    show layer master:
        align (0.5,0.5)
     
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.5
     
        pause 50
     
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.5
     
        pause 10
     
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.5
     
        pause 5
     
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.55
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.45
        ease 1.5 xpos 0.5
     
        pause 10
     
        repeat

But there are a few problems with this - it doesn't seem to be repeating (action only performed 4 times), the pauses seem to be ignored, and it's a little choppy. The modified hpunch is functioning closer to the desired effect at this time.

If anyone can help me perfect the code it'd be greatly appreciated

[Kia]

try: pause renpy.random.randint(1,10)
check the documentation for random, I'm not sure if I wrote that correctly