Chaining transitions

[Cironian]

Hi everyone!

Is there a simple way to combine multiple transitions into one that I can then call by a single name?

Example: When changing backgrounds, I prefer a fade, followed by a brief pause to give the player time to look at the background before it is covered by text again. (This is in NVL mode)

So currently, I do this:

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    scene bg foo
    with fade
    with Pause(0.3)

What I would like to do is to combine the fade and Pause into a single transition name which allows me to change the details of the transition in some central location, instead of having to search and replace over the whole script. So ideally I would do something like:

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   $ bgtrans = TransitionificationCombininator(fade, Pause(0.3))

Any ideas how something like this can be done?

[PyTom]

MultipleTransition lets you do this. IIRC, the syntax would be something like:

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init:
    $ bgtrans = MultipleTransition(False, fade, True, Pause(0.3), True)

Fun fact: Fade is actually two dissolves hooked together in a MultipleTransition like this.

[Cironian]

Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for!

[farvardin]

in a similar way, is it possible to combine several elements such as the placement and the transition?

I have many pictures to display with always the same construction for ex:

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show mypicture at centertop with dissolve

Would it be possible to label this function "displaypic" and call it only with:

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displaypic mypicture

edit: hmm, I think I'll have to look at this for this purpose : http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... splayables
Or is there an easier way?

More generally, I'm making a CYOA, and I have much more menu input than in a traditional visual novels. I don't have big background pictures, only small vignettes I wish to display and hide before showing the menu. The scene system wouldn't really work for this kind of game, and I'd like to avoid to repeat the show / hide command for every pictures.

[PyTom]

Hm... how good are you with programming? This is the perfect use of a user statement. A UDD seems like it would be overkill here.

[farvardin]

it seems too complicated for me

What I was thinking of would be a kind of user defined "macro" like this :

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def showmypic(mypic):
    show mypic at centertop with dissolve

then you can call it by "showmypic(picture1.png)" and it will replace it by:

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show picture1.png at centertop with dissolve

[monele]

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def showmypic(mypic):
    renpy.show(mypic, [centertop])
    renpy.with_statement(dissolve)
#

called...

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$ showmypic("somepic")

"somepic" being a previously defined image :

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image somepic = "somepicture.png"

[farvardin]

it's working well like that. Thank you very much Monele!