Flash sprite on screen

[ChaiLatte]

Hi. I know you can flash white over the whole screen but my characters are displayed in a specific box on the screen and I ONLY want the flash to happen over that box. So I made a pain white image that's the size of that area and I want to flash this image on the screen and then immediately off again (perhaps with a fade effect to make it smoother). But I can't figure out how to do this. Can I display the image with dissolve, wait a ~0.5 sec, then have the image dissolve out, all while not pausing the text itself?

[Imperf3kt]

Yes, look into ATL
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/atl.html

[BioMa]

You can set up your image somewhere on the code and recall it anytime you need with a simple show command.
Do something like

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image flash_white:
    "/game/images/white_flash.png" with Dissolve (.5) #your image's filepath
    xpos *** # the X pos of the area you want to flash white at
    ypos *** # ditto for Y
    pause 0.5
    "/game/images/white_flash.png"
    xpos ***
    ypos ***
    pause 0.1
    "/game/images/clear.png" with Dissolve (.5) #This "clear" image is basically a completely transparent image that'll clear the last one for a smoother effect
    xpos ***
    ypos ***
    "

Bring it up on the main code with "show flash_white" anytime you want and it should have the effect you wish for, from what I've gathered.
Be sure to clear it with hide when appropriate afterwards.