Displaying Images After Choices

[DiamondDust132]

Hello. I'm going to try to explain this the best I can. What I want to happen is an image to briefly pop up whenever the player picks a certain choice on the choice menu. Say for instance, the player picks a choice that leads them on the route of 'GirlA'. I'd want a small picture of 'GirlA' to briefly flash on the screen so the player realizes they're on the right track. I've seen this done in other Ren'Py visual novels, so I know it's possible. I just have no clue where to even begin trying to implement this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[RicharDann]

Do you want the image to quickly flash when the player hovers on the choice, or after the player already picked the choice?
Either way you could make a transform that shows the image and hides it after a short time, depending on wich way you want to show it you would need to use different code. Here's an example, it's rather crude but it could be a start:

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image girlA = "girlA.png"

image girlB = "girlB.png"

transform glimpse:
    align (.5,.3)
    linear .2 alpha 0
    
# Or, you can use a screen, the effect seems to be the same:

screen showGlimpse(img):
    
    modal True
    
    add img at Position(xalign=.5,yalign=.3) 
    
    timer 0.2 action Hide('showGlimpse') #Hide the screen after half second passes


# The game starts here.

label start:

    menu:
        "Where should I go?"
        
        "Option 1.": #Girl A's route
            
            show girlA at glimpse
            
            "Let's go with 1."
            
        "Option 2.": #Girl B's route
            
            show girlB at glimpse
            
            "I choose 2."

[DiamondDust132]

Ah! Perfect! That did the trick. Thank you so much!