Ren'Py crashes when using [Animated Cursor]

[[Admin-C]]

Hello everyone,

This will be my first post and also my first topic.

Now for the issue that I encountered, I keep experiencing some crash issues on launching the game every time I use the .ani cursor that I created. There are no error messages but the project just won't let me go into the testing phase of the game. If I try to click the "Launch Project", it will only open up a black screen for a split second and will disappear like it tried to open and close automatically. I tried to change the animated cursor into the same customized cursor but without animation (.cur) and it worked. My problem is, how am I supposed to retain the project running without crashing by using the animated cursor that I implemented into the game?

This is the code with the animated cursor.

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init python:
    config.mouse = { 'default' : [ ('KCTknifecursor.ani', 0, 0)]}
    gui.init(1280, 720)

This is the code without the animated cursor.

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init python:
    config.mouse = { 'default' : [ ('cursor/cursor (1).cur', 0, 0)]}
    gui.init(1280, 720)

PS: I haven't placed the animated cursor in the cursor folder that's why the codes are a little different.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

[Remix]

If you have the actual frames of the cursor you could try to see if the standard cursor animation works... (not too sure which formats are supported, so put pings in the example)

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define config.mouse = { 'default' : [ ('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0), ('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0), ('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0) ] }
init python:
    gui.init(1280, 720)

Though I cannot say for sure, it might be that Ren'py does not like the .ani format

[[Admin-C]]

If you have the actual frames of the cursor you could try to see if the standard cursor animation works... (not too sure which formats are supported, so put pings in the example)

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define config.mouse = { 'default' : [ ('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0), ('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0), ('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0) ] }
init python:
    gui.init(1280, 720)

Though I cannot say for sure, it might be that Ren'py does not like the .ani format

Hello Remix,

I am pleased to let you know that your advise works!



After clipping the frames of my animated cursor and following the additional lines of codes that you recommended as an example, I can finally able to launch the project without crashing and the mouse is animating as it is (by frames). My next problem though is that the animation per frames is so fast that the cursor keeps animating every 0.5 seconds which is not a good sight. Do you have any advice on how to slow the transition of each frame?

This is the animation speed of the cursor that I am seeing:


This is the animation speed that I want to happen:


I hope you can help me out on this one. Thank you in advance!

[Remix]

The backbone of cursor animation basically runs at 20Hz, so a 1 second animation cycle should contain 20 images.

I do not know if there is a way to set a duration value to particular frames, so all I can advise it to repeat the frame(s) in the define

[ ('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0) ] # etc

You might get away with list comprehension to make it shorter code wise...
[ ('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0) for k in range(5) ] + [ ('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0) for k in range(5) ] # etc

[[Admin-C]]

The backbone of cursor animation basically runs at 20Hz, so a 1 second animation cycle should contain 20 images.

I do not know if there is a way to set a duration value to particular frames, so all I can advise it to repeat the frame(s) in the define

[ ('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0),
('KCTknifecursor.frame3.png', 0, 0) ] # etc

You might get away with list comprehension to make it shorter code wise...
[ ('KCTknifecursor.frame1.png', 0, 0) for k in range(5) ] + [ ('KCTknifecursor.frame2.png', 0, 0) for k in range(5) ] # etc

Greetings Remix,

Absolutely amazing!

I applied your methods to my script and the cursor is now animating at its own phase just like what I have imagined. So far, no issues with the codings.

I'll be sharing my script on this topic should people encountered the same problem as I did.

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init python:
    config.mouse = { 'default' : [ ('cursor/KCTknifecursor.png', 0, 0) for k in range(5) ] + [('cursor/KCTknifecursor2.png', 0, 0) for k in range(5) ] + [('cursor/KCTknifecursor3.png', 0, 0)for k in range(5) ] + [('cursor/KCTknifecursor4.png', 0, 0) for k in range(5) ] + [('cursor/KCTknifecursor5.png', 0, 0) for k in range(5) ] + [('cursor/KCTknifecursor6.png', 0, 0) for k in range(5) ] + [('cursor/KCTknifecursor7.png', 0, 0) ]}
    gui.init(1280, 720)

I guess this is everything I needed for this topic. Once again, thank you for your big help!

Regards,