[SOLVED] How do I keep text from disappearing on transition?

[vilarialight]

Hi there!

I'm looking for a way to keep the dialogue text in my game from disappearing while a background image transitions from one to another.

Currently, the dialogue window remains, but the character image on the left side and the text in the box vanish until the background image is done dissolving in.

This might be a really simple thing but I couldn't seem to find anything recent that worked for me and I'm pretty new to RenPy so I'm hoping someone can help me out!

Thank you!

[gas]

Is not exactly easy as one can figure out, as usually transitions happen inbetween two interactions (in the "void space" between lines) to change the context of narration (the scene), so no text is usually needed.
There's a complicate thing you can use, anyway: DICT TRANSITIONS.
Is a matter of defining a transition and link it to a layer with a dictionary (a python datatype in the form {"key": value}).
The last topic there:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/transitions.html
There's a working example you can experiment with.

[vilarialight]

Thank you so much!

I read over that page like a million times and couldn't seem to get into my brain how it all worked but you definitely cleared it up for me. Popping that in there was exactly what I needed.

Thanks again!