How to Make Characters 'Pop Out'?

[ArizaLuca]

During DDLC, I noticed that when multiple characters were onscreen and a character was speaking, it would sort of 'pop' into the foreground and become lighter in color. When they were done speaking or done being highlighted, they would retreat back into the background. Does anybody know how to do that?

Thank you!

[kivik]

Not sure how DDLC does it, but you can do it by creating a "speaking" version of your character images, and add a config variable to make that image load instead of the default.

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define config.speaking_attribute = "speaking"

This defines what image tag to add to your speaking character, so "image eileen speaking" will be used instead of "image eileen" when she's speaking.

So you can create your images:

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image eileen:
    "eileen.png"

image eileen speaking:
    "eileen.png"
    # add transforms here

To lighten the character, someone else had helped me achieve that using this code:

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transform alpha_mask:
    alpha 0.25
transform lighten(child):
    AlphaBlend(At(child, alpha_mask), child, Solid("#fff"), alpha=True)
# now add them to the speaking image:
image eileen speaking:
    At("eileen.png", lighten)
    # add other transforms here

This method allows for dynamic images, so you can use variables inside the image filename.

You'll have to tinker a bit, but this should be a good basis for what you want