Artist gives me differently sized Character sprites. How to use them together? HELP

[ramondev]

Good day everyone. I'm here with a straightforward question.

My artist is giving me different sprite sizes (PNG FILES) for each character. So let's say a character is 1000x1000 whilst the other one is 850x1000. This, when I use the following code, gives me undesirable results:

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 #Cold Eyes, Cold Mouth 1 
    image Taka coco1 = LiveComposite(
        (291,618),
        (0,0),"char/taka/body.png",
        (0,0),"char/taka/Cold/cold_0000s_0000_eyebrows.png",
        (0,0),"Taka Eyes Cold",
        (0,0),WhileSpeaking("t","Taka Mouth Cold","char/taka/Cold/cold_0000s_0004_mouth.png"),
        (0,0),ConditionSwitch(
            "t_blush == True","char/taka/blush.png",
            "t_blush == False","blank.png"))

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image Taka Eyes Cold:
        "char/taka/Cold/cold_0000s_0001_eyes.png"
        choice:
            2.0
        choice:
            3.1
        choice:
            4.2
        choice:
            3.3
        "char/taka/eyesclosed.png"
        .13
        repeat

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image Taka Mouth Cold:
        "char/taka/Cold/cold_0000s_0002_mouth.png"
        .2
        "char/taka/Cold/cold_0000s_0003_mouth.png"
        .2
        "char/taka/Cold/cold_0000s_0004_mouth.png"
        .2
        repeat

Of course, one of those goes for each character/emotion.

So, since I am receiving differently sized sprites from the artist, some of the sprites float, some sprites are not in the right position at all.

How to fix this? I can't find any resources on the matter.

[Remix]

The absolutely easiest way is to just download gimp.org or (ms.paint.can.do.png.nowadays.maybe.org.or.something) and throw the images in there on a new canvas at the size you want... or ask your artist to size them all the same...

Failing that:
Programmatically, for Ren'py to recognize an image size (even without rescaling it) it mostly has to have put the image onto a pygame surface (which takes time)...

img_surf = im.cache.get(im.image("some_image.png"))
img_width, img_height = img_surf.get_size()

... every time you run it (without the re-scaling the image to fit your requirements bit that would come afterwards) your readers/players are waiting 0.0n seconds...

Basically trying to say, fix the images before launching the game... do not ask the game to 'take-the-time' to fix the images on the fly

[Remix]

Apology if that sounded harsh... it truly is good advice though

[ramondev]

Apology if that sounded harsh... it truly is good advice though

Not harsh at all. Can you expand on your answer? I see you have a bit of code snippet but I am not sure how to apply the code.

Trust me, I want my artist to export CONSISTENT sizes. I am the programmer in this project, so I have no power over production.


I really appreciate it. You have no clue how frustrating this is.