Always displaying a side image?

[briarbun]

I have a character side image set up, but I would like to have that image always showing, instead of only showing when speaking. That way when I type

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show addison happy

the side sprite will change to happy without any dialogue, instead of popping up in the middle of the screen as a normal sprite.

Is this possible?

Currently the default seems to be something like this:

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addison "hello I'm on the screen talking, as a side image"
addison happy "now my side image has changed to happy"
bob "now addison's side image is gone" 
show addison confused
addison "but now there are two addisons on the screen! one happy at the side, and one confused in the center!

I want it to work like this

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addison "hello I'm a side image!"
addison happy "now I'm a happy side image"
show addison nervous
bob "sometimes he wants to change emotions but not speak"

[gas]

So practically speaking you want to show and control a side image both when the character is not speaking and when not showing on the screen as a sprite...

There isn't an easy solution for that (as ren'py work on some precise design choice), but give this a try:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=51430

It's not an optimal solution but work as long as you don't pretend to alternate bob/addison side images.

[badanni]

in label start add this

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$ narrator.image_tag="addison"

for all character modify image with

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image="adison"

this gets that when someone speaks, the side image of "addison" is always shown.

[badanni]

or this

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 config.side_image_tag ="addison"

[Tesspolar]

Hi, sorry to hijacking your post but I didn't want to create new topic on similar issue.

I am trying to add side images but it just doesn't show up.

So I have these but side image just won't show up

image side Kira = "kiraside.png")
define k = Character("Kira", image="kiraside")

Side image won't show up when Kira is talking. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[rayminator]

Hi, sorry to hijacking your post but I didn't want to create new topic on similar issue.

I am trying to add side images but it just doesn't show up.

So I have these but side image just won't show up

image side Kira = "kiraside.png")
define k = Character("Kira", image="kiraside")

Side image won't show up when Kira is talking. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

for this you need to put the full location where the side image

like this

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image side Kira = "characters/kiraside.png")

or

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image side Kira = "images/characters/kiraside.png")

[Tesspolar]

Tried that too. It just won't show up I know I am missing something but don't know what.

So with image location

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image side Kira = "images/kiraside.png"
define k = Character("Kira", image="kiraside")

Images needed to be specific sizes?

[rayminator]

Tried that too. It just won't show up I know I am missing something but don't know what.

So with image location

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image side Kira = "images/kiraside.png")
define k = Character("Kira", image="kiraside")

Images needed to be specific sizes?

take the side from kiraside just name it kira

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image side kira = "images/kiraside.png")

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define k = Character("Kira", image="kira")

[Tesspolar]

Same thing. Ggrrrrrr

[rayminator]

how big are your side images large or small?

you might have to edit this in screens

if it's small just leave it as is if it's large then change small to large

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if not renpy.variant("small"):

here is what I have in my game that I am redoing

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define a = Character("Maejima", who_color="#c8ffc8", image="maejima")
define b = Character("Kira", image="kira")
define c = Character("Tonoya", image="tonoya")
define d = Character("Chie", image="chie")
define e = Character("Murakami", image="murakami")
define f = Character("Kashiwara", image="kashiwara")

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image side maejima = "images/char/maejima.png"
image side kira = "images/char/kira.png"
image side kashiwara = "images/char/kashiwara.png"
image side chie = "images/char/chie.png"
image side tonoya = "images/char/tonoya.png"
image side murakami = "images/char/murakami.png"

[Tesspolar]

Image is 80 x 80

I tried small and large in screen. I have no clue why it just won't show up. Tried a fresh start project with 0 changes in scripts still won't show up

[rayminator]

what do you have under this code

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if not renpy.variant("small"):

with mine i have it has this

you might have to adjust this xalign and yalign

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if not renpy.variant("small"):
        add SideImage() xalign 0.0 yalign 1.0

[Tesspolar]

Yeah it is same.

[rayminator]

okay let do a test

change this line

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add SideImage() xalign 0.0 yalign 1.0

to

this should put the side image dead center of the game

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add SideImage() xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5

if doesn't help then only thing I can think of doing it to open renpy and force recomple

or upload your game to let me see

[Tesspolar]

I was just trying that right at the center. Nope won't show up.

I have just opened up a fresh test project basically nothing in it. Still won't show up. I don't know what I am missing. I made the image smaller.. Bigger.. It just won't show up.

As soon as k character speaks it should show up right?