This is Arthur from thatGlobito!
I have a few questions about layers and video, and searched everywhere to find a solution but eventually ended noticing there wasn't anything like what I was looking from (I went through de Documentation and the Forums without luck).
I'm trying to add a effect in Vicky's Afterlife that consists of a new layer above the master layer (character and background). The thing is... I want it to be a video. A video with transparency, to be precise.
I'm trying to go from here:
To this:
...It could perfectly be an image, but a video animation would work even better (artistically talking).
When I try to load the video, as it's done with images, I loaded it this way displaying it into a new layer I named "effect":
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play movie "alpha.mpg" onlayer effect
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I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.
File "game/script.rpy", line 371: could not parse statement.
play movie "alpha.mpg" onlayer effect
^
Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.99.9.1168
That is the main question, but I have another one if there's a chance of the above working:
Can an alpha video work on Ren'Py at all? I gave a try exporting a test video from After Effects with no background, and exported it to .mpg since it's one of the formats that Ren'Py recognizes (MPEG2). Still, I don't know if it does well with alpha channels, since I can only plan the video between backgrounds, on the same layer.
I've been looking at the forums and the Documentation but I can't figure out a proper solution, so I came here for help! It would be great to hear your opinions and thoughts about this, and hopefully find a solution.
Thank you so much for reading this far!
- Arthur.