Is it possible to make animated pose transitions?

[AllegraTown]

Hey! I'm an animator and I started wondering if I could give my character sprites hand drawn animated transitions. What would be the most technically efficient way to do this and to make it as easy as possible for the Ren'py programmer? Thanks.

[Milkymalk]

Okay, unearthing this old question...

You can't animate transitions (easily), but you can animate images into a still image:

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image eileen normal = "eileen.png"

image eileen armscrossed = "eileen_armscrossed.png"

image eileen normaltoarmscrossed:
    "eileen.png"
    0.1
    "eileen1.png"
    0.1
    "eileen2.png"
    0.1
    "eileen3.png"
    0.1
    "eileen4.png"
    0.1
    "eileen_armscrossed.png" # <--- will stop at this point

You need a full animation set for each start-stop pair of poses and have to manually show these during the script. So instead of just showing the new pose, you instead show the pose animation. You need to remember which was the last finishing pose in addition to which pose you want to show. It's doable, just a lot of work. If you have 5 poses, you will have to do 10 animations if you want to be able to move freely between all poses.