Sprite disappearing and silhouette takes it place?

[skyeworks]

So I have this problem with one part of a scene, I'm writing, it might be because there are too many characters at once 3 then 4 later.

One of the sprites shows up fine but as soon as the character talks, it's gets replaced by a placeholder sprite. Annnd I can't get rid of it. Even if I change the expression of the sprite later.

(I want the sprite to be independent of the side images if that's the issue.)

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    show johnny normal at right
    show roxy flip at right behind johnny
    show Rex shade at left
    ro angry "Hmph. Good, this one can follow orders."
    r howl "... S-scary."
    #-----dialogue that I cut out for brevity
    show rex normal at left
    show sparky flip at center
    s normal "Chief."
    

Here's a pictorial illustration of what I mean

This is it with appearing correctly. (The brown dog.)(The line "Show Rex shade at left")


Here it is when he speaks. The sprite disappears and I get the placeholder. So at the code above, the "r howl" line is when this happens


and in the later scenes, it's still there even though I have called a different sprite of the same character.

I didn't have this problem before because I had one sprite per character but I want to add more and it's really complicated.

[dGameBoy101b]

I think you should check your character definition for rex. Renpy might not be able to find the right image in character "r" with the tag "howl". To avoid this issue in the future you should always have a default untagged image for each character you define (For this project, I would suggest the ones you have tagged with "normal").

Also, I notice that the first occurance of rex is capitalised while the second is all lowercase, which could also be causing the problem.

Finally, images can be fliped around by setting the zoom transform to a negative number. So with "show roxy flip" (assuming "flip" is not for a hair flip) should be achieved by puting the following.

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show roxy behind johnny:
    xzoom -1
    right

[skyeworks]

I think you should check your character definition for rex. Renpy might not be able to find the right image in character "r" with the tag "howl". To avoid this issue in the future you should always have a default untagged image for each character you define (For this project, I would suggest the ones you have tagged with "normal").

Also, I notice that the first occurance of rex is capitalised while the second is all lowercase, which could also be causing the problem.

Finally, images can be fliped around by setting the zoom transform to a negative number. So with "show roxy flip" (assuming "flip" is not for a hair flip) should be achieved by puting the following.

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show roxy behind johnny:
    xzoom -1
    right

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

"Also, I notice that the first occurance of rex is capitalised while the second is all lowercase, which could also be causing the problem."
That's was the issue, haha. It's weird because it's wasn't consistent. (Ie: the Shaded sprites was not showing up unless I capitalized it. so that's why I did that. But now I just made it all lowercase and went back to the declaring images and made it lowercased as well.)

And I have that code for the flip, its just that if I want her to flip back. I didn't know what to do. but THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[dGameBoy101b]

To flip back all you have to do is reset the xzoom to 1.