Help with MoveTransition

[parttimestorier]

I really like the pre-defined transitions RenPy has like "moveinright", that move a character into their position from offscreen. However, they only take 0.5 seconds to do that by default, and I'd like to slow them down a bit. I know that one way to do this would be just defining a position that's offscreen, "showing" a character there where the player can't actually see them, and then later on doing something like:

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show character at right with MoveTransition(1.0)

And it will basically have the same effect, since they'll be moving from that offscreen position. But since it's something I want to use a lot, with characters sliding into various different positions from various sides of the screen, it's a bit annoying to have to define a bunch of different offscreen positions and "show" them there in advance of moving them in every time.

Is there a way to just define a transition that's exactly like moveinright (or any of the other movein/moveout transitions), but slower? Where it will just automatically move the character as if they're coming from offscreen right without needing me to manually put them offscreen to the right first? I realize that there's documentation about the MoveTransition that might help, but I don't entirely understand it. Thanks!

[GalArt]

I guess what you are asking is explained in this video: https://youtu.be/GXNCxXLDS9s?t=280

[parttimestorier]

I guess what you are asking is explained in this video: https://youtu.be/GXNCxXLDS9s?t=280

I appreciate the help, but it looks to me like what this person is doing at that point in the video, where they write code like this:

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init python:
     define.movetransitions("move", 1.0)

. . . would mean that every move transition I ever use would now be whatever speed I set that to. That is one way to deal with the problem depending on your purposes I guess, but ideally I'm hoping to find a way to define a new separate kind of transition that does the same thing as "moveinright" but slower. That way I could conveniently have transitions with multiple different speeds for the same kind of thing. Does anyone know if that's possible?

[GalArt]

Well, as she says, she later shows how to make your own custom transition, which in her case, was:

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define flash = Fade(0.1, 0.0, 0.5, color="#fff")

So in your case, you want the MoveTransition() like this:

define YourTransitionName = MoveTransition( duration in seconds , enter= transform, other shenanigans )

So it could look like this:

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define e = Character("Eileen")
define crawlinright = MoveTransition(5.0, enter=offscreenright)

label start:
	scene bg room
	e "I will enter now."
	
	show eileen happy with crawlinright
	
	e "Here I am!"
	return

[parttimestorier]

Well, as she says, she later shows how to make your own custom transition, which in her case, was . . .

Oh, I see! Since she started talking about animations instead after the bit I watched, I didn't realize there would be more about transitions later. Thanks for taking the time to explain!