Trying to overlay a picture on a movie

[osnofla]

Hello,
For a scene in a game that I'm working on, I need to show a movie which is viewed thorugh a hole. At first, I thought it will be easy, just put a picture of a hole above the playing movie... But to my surprise, after two days trying all variations I could thought with "renpy.movie.cutscene" and "add movie/play movie" I was unable to get it.
I still think it can't be so difficult, so the problem must be my low programming level. I could see the movie (movie.avi) playing in different ways, but never get the picture (hole.png) overlaying it.
Could anybody more skilled give me a clue on this? Thank you very much and sorry for my English.

[Donmai]

Try creating a new layer for your masking bitmap.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayi ... html#layer
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.h ... fig.layers

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init python:
    config.layers = [ 'master'', 'transient', 'screens', 'overlay', 'mask' ]

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    show your_bitmap onlayer mask

[osnofla]

Sorry, I can't get it to work... The idea looks promising and in fact I get the image overlayed on normal screens, but for some reason, when a movie begins to play it seems to override any other layer.
I was thinking about trying screen language (because of the zorder command), but the syntax is a real nightmare for me and I feel unable to get something useful this way...
Some more help, please?

[Imperf3kt]

There are two ways to play a movie, one will be fullscreen and override any and all layers (probably what you're using and also all that Android supports)
The other let's you use the movie as if it were a regular image, and put it where you want, on whatever layer you want, scaled however you want, but uses more processing power and isn't fully supported on all devices (such as Android)

[osnofla]

I guess you mean using "renpy.movie_cutscene" as fullscreen and the other defining movie as DinamicDisplayable and showing it like an image...
Well, I tried both with the same result: the movie always appear on top. Of course, maybe my code is not right at all, as I said, I'm not a good programmer so if someone could give a try to this maybe I'm wrong and there is finally a way to do it.
Thanks for reading.