[SOLVED] Spritesheet Support?

[SypherZent]

Hello,

Sorry if this has been asked, it's just that I have found a number of different things on the topic.

Is there an efficient and simple way of using a spritesheet to animate one or more characters in Ren'Py?
Note that the spritesheet will have a custom format.

I don't want the game to have poor performance if I have 10-15 characters on screen.

Any help on the topic would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Divona]

Check out LiveCrop.

[nyaatrap]

The most straight forward way is:

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image spriteX:
    "sheetX.png"
    crop (0,0,width,height)
    pause 1.0/framerate
    crop (0,1*height, width, height)
    pause 1.0/framerate

Though it's very redundant way of coding.
There're some other ways to code more efficiently. One example code I'm using is:

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init pyton:
        def draw_effect(st, at, image_path, last_frame, width=360, height=360, framerate=24):            
            # Retruns a Filmstrip displayable
            
            number=int(st*framerate)
            if number < last_frame:
                return Transform("gfx/{}.png".format(image_path), crop=(0,height*number,width,height)), 1.0/framerate
            else:
                return Null(), None

        renpy.image(effect, DynamicDisplayable(draw_effect, image_path, last_frame))

[SypherZent]

Aha! Much simpler than I thought.
Excellent, thank you! Both examples are straightforward and helpful.

Will also take a peek at LiveCrop to see if I can use it.

Thanks for the quick replies!