New GUI interface, side image appears under textbox?

[Milkymalk]

You can use transitions with the "with" statement: "add sideimage [...] with dissolve"

If you want the "side image" to stay even when the character is not talking, you don't need a side image. In effect, you just want to show an image above the say screen, which you can achieve by using a layer above the screen layer. I would have to look up how to do it myself, but it's relatively easy if you follow the docs: Register a layer above the screen layer and tell Ren'Py to show this specific image on that specific layer instead of the standard layer.

[Katz_Drawings]

Would something like this be what you're looking for? I haven't tested this sort of thing in particular, but I've used config.side_image_tag before.

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$config.side_image_tag = Null()
kana "something" #no side image
$config.side_image_tag = "kana"
kana "hi" #kana side image
tsugu "hi" #still with kana side image
$config.side_image_tag = "tsugu"
tsugu "hi" #tsugu side image
kana "hi" #still with tsugu side image
$config.side_image_tag = Null()
kana "hello" #no side image

[Goldie28]

Where can I put that code you suggested? I'm entirely unfamiliar to config. tags ;-;

[Goldie28]

You can use transitions with the "with" statement: "add sideimage [...] with dissolve"

If you want the "side image" to stay even when the character is not talking, you don't need a side image. In effect, you just want to show an image above the say screen, which you can achieve by using a layer above the screen layer. I would have to look up how to do it myself, but it's relatively easy if you follow the docs: Register a layer above the screen layer and tell Ren'Py to show this specific image on that specific layer instead of the standard layer.

Do you by chance know how I could arrange the layers for a non-side image to appear over the textbox like a side image, as you suggested?

[Milkymalk]

I'd have to look it up myself, but it's rather simple:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayi ... html#layer
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.h ... fig.layers

You could make a user-defined layer or just use the layer "overlay". You use "onlayer LAYER" as an argument for the show statement you want to appear there.

[Katz_Drawings]

Where can I put that code you suggested? I'm entirely unfamiliar to config. tags ;-;

Sorry it took so long to reply, but as long as you use the $ sign before the config. tag you should be able to simply change it at will during the script.