character image on the textbox?

[glithch]

i know this is a popular question but i cant find any tutorial that looks like it would work with the new version of renpy ://
i would like to have my protagonists sprite on the side of the text box, but only their, and only when they talk.
i need to make a character specific text box for that? do i need to mess up with different files?

[glithch]

ok i dont know if its the new version or if im messing it up but im using this. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/side_image.html the invisible character section.
and the code there looks like this
define p = Character("Player", image="player")

image side player happy = "side_player_happy.png"
image side player concerned = "side_player_concerned.png"

label start:

p happy "This is shown with the 'side player happy' image."

my code looks like this

define m = Character('Max', color="#ffffff", image="max")
image side max neutral = ("side_max_neutral.png")
label start:
m neutral ".{w=0.2}.{w=0.2}."
and i get an error that no image tag is associated with the speaking character

[Divona]

The only way for me to replicate the error is to remove image="max" out of Character(), or define the same character again without the use of image="max". The code you provided above is fine, the problem is likely to be else where in your code.

[glithch]

The only way for me to replicate the error is to remove image="max" out of Character(), or define the same character again without the use of image="max". The code you provided above is fine, the problem is likely to be else where in your code.

i ended up doing
define m = Character('Max', color="#ffffff", image= "max")
image side max = "side_max.png"
m ".{w=0.2}.{w=0.2}."
and it works??

[Divona]

Perhaps misspell the word "neutral" originally?

[Imperf3kt]

I don't know if using the new GUI makes a difference, as I am still using the old GUI, even though I've updated renpy, so please keep that in mind.
Anyway, renpy still does as expected when I use the following:

$ Eileen = Character(None, show_side_image=Image("images/Eileen_side_image.png", xalign=0.01, yalign=0.99))

This is positioned for a 1280x720 screen, adjust as neccessary using the xalign / yalign variables.

What this does, is every time I define "Eileen" to be speaking, it'll show a "side image" every time only that character speaks.

For example, the following was made with the new GUI:
http://puu.sh/t2eEJ/b97986e43d.png
It's not aligning as expected though...

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## The script of the game goes in this file.

## Declare characters used by this game. The color argument colorizes the name
## of the character.

define e = Character('Eileen')
$ Eileen = Character(None, show_side_image=Image("images/Eileen.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=0.99))

## The game starts here.

label start:

    ## Show a background. This uses a placeholder by default, but you can add a
    ## file (named either "bg room.png" or "bg room.jpg") to the images
    ## directory to show it.

    scene bg room

    ## This shows a character sprite. A placeholder is used, but you can replace
    ## it by adding a file named "eileen happy.png" to the images directory.

    show eileen happy

    ## These display lines of dialogue.

    "Hello, world."

    e "You've created a new Ren'Py game."

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

    ## This ends the game.

    return

E: Okay, after a few quick tests, it seems the new GUI doesn't function the same way at all. Please disregard the above post.

I have since read through file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/renpy/renpy-6.99.11-sdk/doc/side_image.html and realised how silly it was for me to comment :p