Playing an animation when user clicks

[Glazed Donuts]

I'm trying to find a way for a small animation to play when you click on the screen. For example, if you click in a certain spot, then it shows an explosion animation (non-looping) where the mouse cursor is to let the user know where they clicked. Is there a way to do this in Ren'Py?

[Jake]

I'm trying to find a way for a small animation to play when you click on the screen. For example, if you click in a certain spot, then it shows an explosion animation (non-looping) where the mouse cursor is to let the user know where they clicked. Is there a way to do this in Ren'Py?

The playing-an-explosion-animation part, yes. But IIRC it's not that simple to find the precise location that a user clicked on, in Ren'Py... do you just want a single, predetermined spot where this will happen, or do you want it to happen wherever the user clicks?

In general terms, I would set the animation up beforehand using an ATL-defined image, then when you want to show it at X, Y you can do something like:

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  $ renpy.show("explosion image name", at_list=[Transform(xpos=X, ypos=Y, xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5)], layer="transient")
  $ renpy.pause(1)
  $ renpy.hide("explosion image name", layer="transient")

(where '1' is the length in seconds of your animation, and the 'layer="transient"' bit makes the explosion play over the top of most things.)