Text Box Disappearing

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Text Box Disappearing

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Whenever I change images (backgrounds, characters, screens) the dialogue text box disappears. Now I constantly use "With Dissolve" in my game since it's easier on my eyes.
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scene bg
with Dissolve(.3)

show dude
with Dissolve(.3)
dude "The textbox is showing."

show dude sad
with Dissolve(.3)
dude "It disappeared while I changed expressions and reappeared after the dissolve."
I want to keep the dialogue text box and dialogue on screen while the character's images are changing. Any way to accomplish this?
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Re: Text Box Disappearing

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The textbox is disappearing and reappearing because you're using dissolve. Thats what that function is intended to do.

Try fade or simply nothing instead.
Did you change any config settings in options.rpy?
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Imperf3kt wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:28 pm The textbox is disappearing and reappearing because you're using dissolve. That's what that function is intended to do.
Try fade or simply nothing instead.
The textbox still disappears and the entire screen fades to black then fades from black with the new image. Like a magic trick.
Nothing would work, but then the character's appearance and changes are too sudden and like I said, it hurts my eyes.
Imperf3kt wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:28 pm Did you change any config settings in options.rpy?
The only thing I changed was the default cps.

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I'll take a look when at a computer with renpy installed.
It sounds odd and not supposed to do that.
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