Image naming

[dvemail]

I've looked at the docs and scanned through the cookbook stuff I thought apropos, but I still don't understand the image naming conventions.

I have a directory "game/images/Char1"
In that directory I have three files, "Char1.png", "Char1 left.png" and "Char1 right.png"

In the game I refer to

show Char1 right at right

But I don't get the image at all, just a generic black anime girl outline.
So, a couple of questions

1. Do I have to explicitly define an "image Char1 = " etc for every thing and character, or is any of it automagic?
2. What's the tag order for matching image name components?

[Divona]

Ren'Py doesn't do capital letters for auto images. Do:

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show char1 right at right

[Imperf3kt]

You can define an image in two ways.
One is
define image <name> = "path.extension"
Where <name> is whatever you decide to call the image with and path.extension is the image name, example Char1.png
You use this outside any labels in your game.

Another way, is to call the image from within the line, so for example:
show image "Char1.png"
But this way will take considerably more typing if you reuse any of the images more than once.

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image char1 = "Char1.png"
image char2 = "Char2.png"
image char3 = "Char3.png"
image char4 = "Char4.png"

label start:
    show char1
    "Hi, I'm character one."
    show char2
    "Hi, I'm character two."
    show char3
    "Hi, I'm character three."
    show char4
    "Hi, I'm character four."

    return

Is the same as

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label start:
    show image "Char1.png"
    "Hi, I'm character one."
    show image "Char2.png"
    "Hi, I'm character two."
    show image "Char3.png"
    "Hi, I'm character three."
    show image "Char4.png"
    "Hi, I'm character four."

    return

[IrinaLazareva]

Also look this
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.h ... tic_images