How to make anim.Filmstrip play only once [SOLVED]

[RicharDann]

Hello there, I'm not exactly new to Ren'Py since I've been using it for a while now, I've been lurking in this forum for some time and I've found some of the examples here, if a little dated, quite helpful anyway.

So on to my question: as I started to dig into ATL and animation I've run into some examples in the tutorial that make use of a function call 'anim.Filmstrip', wich is used to make an animation out of a spritesheet, I've found it quite easy to use, but there is a problem. This function makes it so the animation plays repeatedly until it's dismissed, and I wanted to know if there is a way to have it play only an x amount of times and then dissapear, maybe a parameter or something, but I can't seem to find anything about it on the Documentation.

Is anim.Filmstrip deprecated somehow that it doesn't appear on the Docs, if it is is there a better alternative to use spritesheets?

[Donmai]

People here will must likely be telling you to quit using filmstrip and go for ATL (see here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42965) .
But the old filmstrip documentation says there's a "Loop" parameter you can use.
https://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/re ... .Filmstrip
Maybe something like

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    image blossom = anim.Filmstrip("sakura.png", (20, 20), (2, 1), .30, False, xpos=760, ypos=560, xanchor=0, yanchor=0)

Should work.
If not... well, go for ATL .

[RicharDann]

Thank you very much for your reply, I think I will go for ATL after all, I've been doing a bit of testing and I think ATL is far more powerful and will allow more precise customization, so yeah. Still good to know about filmstrip having that option, thanks.