How do I add my animated falling hearts to my main menu?

[ArudanisMe]

Hey guys. So im stuck on something. For the ATL, I wanna know how do I add animated falling hearts to my main menu background as an animation? I know you cannot use gifs more like moving pictures with pngs instead? I just need to know where to add/and type a code for it since I got all the image sequences made for it. Using jedit by the way.

[Per K Grok]

Hey guys. So im stuck on something. For the ATL, I wanna know how do I add animated falling hearts to my main menu background as an animation? I know you cannot use gifs more like moving pictures with pngs instead? I just need to know where to add/and type a code for it since I got all the image sequences made for it. Using jedit by the way.

in script.rpy before "label start:"

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image anim_harts:
    "hart1.png"
    0.2              # pause in seconds
    "hart2.png"
    0.2
    "hart3.png"
    0.2
    repeat      #repeat the animation

in screens.rpy under "screen main_menu():" and after "add gui.main_menu_background"

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add "anim_harts"

or you could place it under "screen navigation():" under "if main_menu:"

An alternative could be to make a video, define that as an image and add that the same way in screens.rpy

[ArudanisMe]

Got it to work! ...but now my game menu background turned into the main menu background instead. There a way to get my game menu BG back?

[Donmai]

Got it to work! ...but now my game menu background turned into the main menu background instead. There a way to get my game menu BG back?

Looks like it's only one of the New GUI's tricks which let me confused for some time too. Run your game, access the game menu by pressing Esc or using the quick menu, and see if your game menu background appears then. I hated it, but that's how it's supposed to work now. There must be a way of changing this behavior by messing with the scripts. Looks like the oddity is here:

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screen game_menu(title, scroll=None, yinitial=0.0):

    style_prefix "game_menu"

    if main_menu:
        add gui.main_menu_background #if you just left the main menu, keep the same background (as I understood it).
    else:
        add gui.game_menu_background # if coming from any other screen, show the game menu background.

I'm not in love with the new GUI.