image layer above the characters, and below the text?

[Silphy]

is there a way to put an image above the characters layer, but below the text box layer?

I want to make a scene in the forest, where it looks like the characters are standing in the shade under the leaves, with some light shinning through on them, if i could put a .png image in front of them, that was black with a low opacity, and a few "holes" in it, i think it could end up looking nice.

sorry if this is a stupid question, any help would be appreciated.

[SusanTheCat]

I haven't done this, but this should help:
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/tut ... ing_images

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scene bg forest
show myChar
show leavesOverlay

If you get it working, take a screenshot for me. It sounds like a sweet effect.

Susan

[Silphy]

So I re-worked the "static" effect from the cookbook, to make this simple leaf effect, it ended up looking pretty good, although the images i used as overlays need some work...

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    image leaf = anim.SMAnimation("a",
        anim.State("a", "leaf1.png"),
        anim.State("b", "leaf2.png"),
        anim.State("c", "leaf3.png"),
        anim.State("d", "leaf4.png"),
        
        anim.Edge("a", 1.0, "b", trans=Dissolve(1.0, alpha=True)),
        anim.Edge("b", 1.0, "c", trans=Dissolve(1.0, alpha=True)),
        anim.Edge("c", 1.0, "d", trans=Dissolve(1.0, alpha=True)),
        anim.Edge("d", 1.0, "a", trans=Dissolve(1.0, alpha=True)),
        )   

This will probably work the best with a bright park/Forrest background, if the background is dark already then the black opacity 50% overlay will make it REALLY dark (of course you can always reduce the opacity, but then the effect doesnt stand out)

then just placing "show leaf" ontop of the characters makes it work perfectly.
I might change all the times from 1.0 to 2.0 as well to make it a bit more slow...

anyways, give it a shot to see what it looks like, the "leaf" images attached to this post are free for anyone to use as well.

[PyTom]

You can write that code a bit more easily with ATL:

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image leaf:
    "leaf1.png"
    "leaf2.png" with Dissolve(1.0), pause 1.0
    "leaf3.png" with Dissolve(1.0), pause 1.0
    "leaf4.png" with Dissolve(1.0), pause 1.0
    "leaf1.png" with Dissolve(1.0), pause 1.0
     repeat

[Silphy]

Thank you, to be honest i was having a lot of trouble making an animation, I'm not experienced with this system at all yet, and searching for "Animate" and "animation" in the wiki didnt really help out much.

I made some nicer leaf shadow images, in case anyone is interested.