[SOLVED] Best practices of animation images that are already displayed

[tanakeiQ]

Hi All.

I'm tried zoom character that is already displayed.

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    show sakuya maid default at center as sakuya_center:
    with dissolve
    
    pause
    
    show sakuya maid default at center as sakuya_center:
        linear 1.0 zoom 0.5

Its works, but very redundant.

For example, I want to write like this.

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    show sakuya maid default at center as sakuya_center:
    with dissolve
    
    pause
    
    sakuya_center:
        linear 1.0 zoom 0.5

Is there any simple way of writing like this?

[kivik]

You need to create a transform with linear 1.0 zoom 0.5, and apply it.

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transform zoom_out:
    linear 1.0 zoom 0.5

...

    show sakuya maid default at center as sakuya_center with dissolve
    pause
    show sakuya maid default at zoom_out

Any particular reason you're renaming sakuya to sakuya_center? Unless you're showing sakuya again somewhere else on your screen, you could have shorten it:

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    show sakuya maid default at center with dissolve
    pause
    show sakuya at zoom_out

[tanakeiQ]

thanks kivik!

Any particular reason you're renaming sakuya to sakuya_center?

I want to display the same character with the setting called Doppelganger.

Actually it will be as follows.

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transform zoom_out:
    linear 1.0 zoom 0.5
    
    ...
    
    show sakuya maid default at right as sakuya_right with dissolve
    
    pause    
    
    show sakuya maid default at center as sakuya_center with dissolve
    
    pause
    
    # appy `zoom_out` to sakuya_center

[kivik]

How often are you going to do this?

If it's just for a brief part of the game, just don't bother re-naming the image you want to transform:

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    show sakuya maid default at right as sakuya_right with dissolve
    pause    
    show sakuya maid default at center with dissolve
    pause
    show sakuya at zoom_out

From what I understand, giving your image a different image tag doesn't create a handle on it, so you can't directly manipulate it by that name besides hiding it. The only other thing I can see you can do is to do with other images in relation to said image tag (show something else behind image_tag)

When you try to manipulate sakuya_center - it assumes that there's an image declared call sakuya_center, and when it's not found shows the default grey missing portrait image.


If you want to use the doppelganger lots of times, it's probably better to define a separate set of images with a different image tag:

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sakuya2 = "sakuya.png"
sakuya2 happy = "sakuya_happy.png"
etc

Then you can actually reference sakuya2 with the transforms and not waste time renaming the image tag each time you show the image.

[tanakeiQ]

thanks! understood.

From what I understand, giving your image a different image tag doesn't create a handle on it, so you can't directly manipulate it by that name besides hiding it.

I see.
I'd like you to be able to specify animation for aliases in future updates...

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sakuya2 = "sakuya.png"
sakuya2 happy = "sakuya_happy.png"
etc

it's good. I try it.

[kivik]

Btw, I just saw this in the documentation:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayi ... opy_images

This can save you time duplicating all the images. Just make sure you run it at a later init than your sakuya image declarations.

[tanakeiQ]

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayi ... opy_images

Its nice.

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image sakuya = "sakuya maid default.png"
    ...
    
    "Show sakuya"

    show sakuya at center with dissolve:
        zoom 0.5 yoffset 150


    "Copy"

    $ renpy.copy_images(old="sakuya", new="copy1")

    "Show copy"

    show copy1 at right  with dissolve:
        zoom 0.5 yoffset 150

    "Apply to sakura only"

    show sakuya:
        easeout 0.5 xoffset -100

    "Apply to copy only"

    show copy1:
        easeout 0.5 xoffset -100

It became a code that is easy to understand personally.

Thank you.

[kivik]

Probably want to use a different name than copy1 though But glad that's working for you!

P.S. remember to use transforms to create more shorthands instead of doing zoom 0.5 yoffset 150 and easeout 0.5 xoffset -100 each time.

[tanakeiQ]

Or the following code is also good.

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    "Show sakuya"

    show sakuya maid default at center as original with dissolve:
        zoom 0.5 yoffset 150


    "Show copy"

    show sakuya maid default at right as copy with dissolve:
        zoom 0.5 yoffset 150

    "Apply to sakura"

    show sakuya as original:
        easeout 0.5 xoffset -100

    "Apply to copy"

    show sakuya as copy:
        easeout 0.5 xoffset -100

    "Change to copy's face"

    show sakuya maid cry as copy with dissolve

With the previous code(viewtopic.php?p=487422#p487422), need to redefine to change face.

P.S. remember to use transforms to create more shorthands instead of doing zoom 0.5 yoffset 150 and easeout 0.5 xoffset -100 each time.

Okay. Thanks kivik!

NOTE:

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transform zoom_out:
    linear 1.0 zoom 0.5
transform move_left:
    easeout 0.5 xoffset -100