how to do animation

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how to do animation

#1 Post by Littleblackcat »

Is it possible to animate my visual novel, besides making the characters blink.
Is it easy, if so please give me the lines i should type in.

Also, after I click build distributions, I can't open my game. Why?

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#2 Post by Taleweaver »

Despite being phrased not exactly well, this seems to be a Ren'Py question.

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Littleblackcat wrote:Is it possible to animate my visual novel, besides making the characters blink.
Is it easy, if so please give me the lines i should type in.
There are a number of ways to do animations. You can use the old way of

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image character laughing = Animation("laughing01.png", 0.2, "laughing02.png", 0.2, "laughing03.png", 0.2)
Where each frame of the animation is a separate image that you can define with the numbers between each being how long to wait before advancing to the next frame. If you want more flexibility, you can also use ATL to accomplish this.

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image character laughing:
    "laughing01.png"
    0.2
    "laughing02.png"
    0.2
    "laughing03.png"
    0.2
    repeat
Same basic principal but different way of writing it. The advantage of using ATL is that you can use other ATL code in here as well to do more things with your image than simply animate it, should you need to.

You can also pre-animate your image and save it as some animated format that Ren'py supports and just define that.
Littleblackcat wrote:Also, after I click build distributions, I can't open my game. Why?
Build Distributions creates an archive with all of the files of your game.
You can't execute files within archives that are dependent upon other files.
The only way to run an archived game is to first extract it to a folder somewhere on your computer and then launch the game from that folder.

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#4 Post by Littleblackcat »

oh thank you so much

i am computer illiterate so i can never use the right terminology!

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No it didn't work! i moved the files elsewhere but i can't open them!!
Its due for tomorrow so can someone help quickly!

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Littleblackcat wrote:No it didn't work! i moved the files elsewhere but i can't open them!!
Its due for tomorrow so can someone help quickly!

Thank you
Actual information? What did you do? Why can't you open it? What happens? What errors are you getting? We can't help you if you don't really make it clear what's wrong.

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#7 Post by Littleblackcat »

it simply will not open- thats it
by the way i am using a mac

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i attached the error
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#9 Post by PyTom »

Can you try renaming things - both the files on disk, and the names in options.rpy, so there aren't any special characters in the name? The use of colon and emdash seems that they might have the potential to confuse things.

If that doesn't work, please zip up the project and send me the files. (Either via pm, or email to pytom@bishoujo.us.) I'll debug things here and fix them shortly.
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