How do I make "Hide" option automatic?

[Gustavs14]

Basically, after every show "x image", I have to use hide "x image" and I feel like that's a real bother (Maybe I am doing something wrong, but whenever I just use "show" without hiding previous image, the previous image stays there...forever, so I absolutely need to do this currently), so I'm wondering if there is any way I can make it so that whenever a new "show image" image appears, It automatically goes "over' the previous image or something?

thanks.

[Scribbles]

you should try scene vs show?

[Gustavs14]

you should try scene vs show?

every time I use scene there is a small "fade" or something similar to it and the text disappears for like half a second...

[Imperf3kt]

You could cheat and use "show xxx as xxx"

For example:

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    show eileen at left
    eileen "Hey, Lucy, lets go buy pizza!"
    show lucy as eileen
    lucy "Sounds great."

Of course, this only works for back-and-forth conversations where both characters occupy the same area

[TellerFarsight]

What kind of images we talkin'?
Can you use tags to define groups of images? Sprites use tags so that showing a new expression overwrites the previous expression, and you can make use of that for whatever images you're talking about. This is essentially what Imperf3kt's solution is; both eileen and lucy in the example have the "eileen" tag, and so both can't exist at the same time. So, showing one automatically hides the other.

[Taleweaver]

Moved to Ren'Py Questions.

[vollschauer]

"Bundle" your character images, so you don't have to hide the previous one if you show the "next" image of the same character

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayi ... -statement