Trying to figure out how to animate a thing...[Solved]

[Mutive]

I'm feeling like an idiot, as this seems like it should be an easy thing to do...

My goal is to have a player click on a map, at which point there's an animation of the sprite moving from the starting location to the clicked on location.

I'd like to be able to set the coordinates for the sprite as simply as possible (e.g. the sprite moves from point (100, 100) to point (300, 300) on the map at a rate of, say, 100 pixels per 0.3 seconds. Or whatever.

I've tried to do this via creating an animation that I can lay over a background something like this:

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image hero_map1:
    'images/hero.jpg' pos (100, 100)
    pause 0.3
    'images/hero.jpg' pos (200, 200)
    pause 0.3
    'images/hero.jpg' pos (300, 300)

Renpy does *not* like this, although it's pretty willing to accept:

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image hero_map1:
    'images/hero.jpg'
    pause 0.3
    'images/hero.jpg'
    pause 0.3
    'images/hero.jpg'

Just, like, if I do that, my character doesn't move. The character just hovers at the bottom of the screen where it is of no use to anyone.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but I can't figure out what it is. Can anyone point it out to me? Pretty please? ^_^

[_ticlock_]

My goal is to have a player click on a map, at which point there's an animation of the sprite moving from the starting location to the clicked on location.

A simple approach is to use ATL. For example:

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transform move_to_point(x0, y0, x1, y1):
    pos (x0,y0)
    linear math.hypot(x1 - x0, y1 - y0)/100 pos (x1,y1)

You can apply the transform inside a screen or directly in Renpy statement:

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label start:
    show hero at move_to_point(100, 100, 300, 300)

[Mutive]

Thank you so much! I think that'll do the trick. (I need to fiddle around a bit more with the coordinates, etc, but I think I can make it work! Much appreciated!