Animated NVL GUI

[slaybelles]

I was trying to create a custom NVL screen and got the static version working just fine, but I really wanted to make a version that jitters a bit. I made up a simple animated version of what I wanted, but since Ren'Py doesn't use animated .gifs, I'm a bit at a loss of what to do.

Does Ren'py let you use a .mov file as a screen? If not, any clue how else I could implement this?
Or if I should even implement it? (I've had some concerns about legibility, to be honest.)

(I'm using the newer GUI version, by the way...loving the simplicity of it so far.)

The successful still image NVL customization:




The animation I want to use for the NVL mode GUI (Obviously I have it saved as a PSD, the .gif is for accessibility.)

[Divona]

You can use ATL to make animation out of image sprites:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/atl.html ... -atl-block

or you can use Movie displayable:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html?#Movie

[EchoFrost]

Hello! Like Divona said, an option to achieve an animated background is by using a movie displayable.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html

Code would look something like this:

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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.

init:
    $ s = Character('Sylvie', kind=nvl, color="#c8ffc8")
    
image background movie = Movie(channel="background", play="background.webm")

# The game starts here.

label start:
    show background movie

    s "Look at this cool animation!"

    hide background movie

    s "Aww, now it's gone..."

    return

Hope that helps!

[slaybelles]

Thank you both! I'll take a look at these options.