partially transparent character(solved)

[glithch]

i want to have a ghost character and i read in the tutorial that making something half transparent is possible with the alpha thingy. but like... how do i actually use it?
i have this

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image w alpha = im.Alpha("red.png", 0.5)

and this

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image w = "red.png"
image w lookaway = "redlookaway.png"
image w calm = "redcalm.png"
image w shy = "redshy.png"
image w smile = "redsmile.png"
image w smile2 = "redsmile2.png"

but the emotions show up as normal transparency even if i write "show w lookaway alpha" or "show w alpha lookaway". do i really have to state every single emotion as alpha?? or am i missing something

[xela]

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show w:
    alpha .5

RenPy keeps track of transforms applied to displayable, so make sure you've reset it to alpha 1.0 after you're done with ghosts.

[glithch]

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show w:
    alpha .5

RenPy keeps track of transforms applied to displayable, so make sure you've reset it to alpha 1.0 after you're done with ghosts.

wait what... sorry i have no idea what does it mean and how to put it into the code and then actually use it : ( im really nooby

[Scribbles]

can you make the image itself somewhat transparent without doing it in Ren'py? (I would use Photoshop and lower the opacity, I'm sure you could do something similar in other programs?)

[xela]

You can do that to any image as you show them...

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even if i write "show w lookaway alpha"

You do not define transparent images separately, you write it where you wrote that...

Like:

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label start:
    show w lookaway:
        alpha .5

You do not define:

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image w alpha = im.Alpha("red.png", 0.5)

You just do:

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image w lookaway = "redlookaway.png"
label start:
    show w lookaway:
        alpha .5

I am not sure how to explain it any better, you can always read the same in the Docs.

[glithch]

can you make the image itself somewhat transparent without doing it in Ren'py? (I would use Photoshop and lower the opacity, I'm sure you could do something similar in other programs?)

of course i could do that but it seems counter productive. renpy has the tools to do it so i can do it. and i rather not add more images than i have to, the file is going to be heavy anyway

[Imperf3kt]

The colon means you want to add properties to the image. No need to define the image twice, just do it once and when you show it, specify the properties you need, as shown by xela
Perhaps this helps a bit?

[glithch]

You can do that to any image as you show them...

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even if i write "show w lookaway alpha"

You do not define transparent images separately, you write it where you wrote that...

Like:

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label start:
    show w lookaway:
        alpha .5

You do not define:

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image w alpha = im.Alpha("red.png", 0.5)

You just do:

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image w lookaway = "redlookaway.png"
label start:
    show w lookaway:
        alpha .5

I am not sure how to explain it any better, you can always read the same in the Docs.

oooooh ok ok. i got it. thank you so much
ive been going off of whats written in the script files of the tutorial, maybe that code is just outdated

[glithch]

The colon means you want to add properties to the image. No need to define the image twice, just do it once and when you show it, specify the properties you need, as shown by xela
Perhaps this helps a bit?

yes i get it now. i was trying it out and it works perfectly. thank you all for help