How to call an image in the options screen? [Resolved]

[rufiangel]

Hi folks, my coder created this amazing snowblossom effect that we wanted to put on the options screen of the VN we're working on, but we couldn't get Ren'Py to be cool with using the 'show' function with it (the traceback said the 'show' function wouldn't play nice with the 'screen'). We tried to use the 'add' function to call it instead, but then it asked us to define the image. We placed the definition everywhere we could think of but it still wouldn't recognise it. Is this simply not something we can do on the options screen?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much in advance!

[trooper6]

What is the code for the snow blossom effect? What is it? Is it a screen? An image? A Transform?

[Donmai]

Are you by any chance forgetting to use quotes when referencing the image? For example:

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add "fallingStars"

[rufiangel]

Sorry for not leading in with code examples! The code for the snow blossom effect looks something like this (I may have fudged the numbers a bit, sorry):

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image snowfall = ("snowflake.png")

image snow1 = SnowBlossom("snowfall", count=5, border=40, xspeed=(-20, 20), yspeed=(-5, -10), start=4.3, fast=False, horizontal=False)

image snow2 = SnowBlossom("snowfall", count=5, border=40, xspeed=(-20, 20), yspeed=(-8, 8), start=9, fast=False, horizontal=True)

To use it in the game we put the above under the init in the script.rpy file, and in the game itself (under labels) we used this code to call it, and it would work:

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    show snow1 onlayer borderframe
    show snow2 onlayer borderframe

We wanted to put it on our custom options screen, so I guess our initial attempt looked something like this:

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screen main_menu():

    tag menu

    show snow1
    show snow2

The traceback said something like the following:

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File "game/screens.rpy", line 257: u'show' is not a keyword argument or valid child for the screen statement.

We then tried using the add function, like this:

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screen main_menu():

    tag menu

    add snow1
    add snow2

But that returned the following traceback:

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  File "game/screens.rpy", line 257, in execute
    add snow1
NameError: name 'snow1' is not defined

Donmai, I tried putting it in quotation marks, and while it didn't cause any errors, the effect itself did not show in the options screen regardless. *scratches head*

I apologise if I come across as a bit vague, I am not a coding expert by any means. >-< Please let me know if there are further details I need to be explaining! I really appreciate all the help, thank you very much.

[Donmai]

Quotation marks are mandatory in this case. Has your screen any background image? If that's the case, you should add the effect after the background. The last item added always appear on top. Maybe the effect is appearing behind the background image. Here's an example from one of my projects:

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screen music_room:
    tag menu
    add "alice_sleeping" #this is the background image
    add "fairydust" additive 0.85 alpha .85 # this is the animated particles effect

[rufiangel]

Donmai - that was super helpful, and your remarks helped us fix the issue - we can now see that lovely effect on our options screen! Thank you so so much, it's so appreciated!! <3 You guys are the best!