[SOLVED] Using Images in Show and Scene statements without declaring them in Init.

[Jg119]

Hey, so recently I've been working a lot on my VN but everytime I add and image I have to declare it in the init before the start label or otherwise I get an error when loading the game or I get a white screen with the name of the image.

Since going through the motion of declaring first in a LOOOONG list of declarations I already have, is there a way to use images without declaring them first?

I know this is a total newbie question and it should be pretty simple but I can't really find the answer to it by myself, or renpy just doens't work that way.

Thanks in advance!

[philat]

Images are auto-defined since like... years ago. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayi ... -directory

[Remix]

You can use the expression keyword...
Use the as keyword to set the images tag (for hiding later)

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    scene expression "images/backgrounds/my_pic.png"
    show expression "images/backgrounds/my_pic2.png" as piccy2
    "dialogue"
    hide piccy2

[qirien]

As long as they are in a subdirectory called "images", Ren'py should find them for you automatically.

[Jg119]

Thanks guys, I'll try this out and see if I can get the expected results. As Philat says, I read that the images were supposed to be auto-defined but it has never work for me, is it perhaps because I use the path from "imaes/..." and not the whole "game/images/..." ?
The expression keyword is a nice workaround, so far has worked like a charm. Thanks Remix!

[qirien]

All of your files for your game should be under the "game" folder (so, yes, it should be game/images). The other folders are for Ren'Py stuff.

[Jg119]

Okay I think I got it, seems it was a mistake in how I was telling renpy what image to use. Looking carefully at the renpy doc, i realized that i had to use the name of the image with no quotation marks, all lower case, and use the spaces as normal instead of adding lower bar in the spaces "_", the problem I had was that some of my images had names that conflicted wit the repny syntaxis like the word "scene" or "jump". In this case there was no need to add the "game/images/XXX". Thanks for the help!