Showing images during a fade

[zoranac]

I was curious if anyone had solutions on how to load sprites during a fade transition so they are all onscreen when the fade is over and the next scene is visible.
I currently have 4 images layered on each other.
top - rain animation
character sprite
frame image
background image

however my code is a bit awkward in the order they show up, but this is in order to hide the opacity of the frame and background and to make it look as nice as I could in this situation.

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scene Frame
    show bg behind Frame with fade
    show character behind rain
    show  rain with dissolve  

this way it transitions from the previous scene with a fade and looks nice, however after the fade it takes a second to show the character and the rain (it is with dissolve now just to look a little nicer with how it is)

if I set the "with fade" on the rain it will load the other images before it actually fades looking even worse.

I could just use photoshop to make these all one image, because it "flashes" to each sprite change i could just make it a new image, however this would require me making 5 separate images for each character sprite due to the rain's animation. and I would like to believe there is an easier way that that to go about it.

hopefully I make sense and you guys have a nice, simple solution...
hopefully...
well anyways, thanks ahead of time!

[Kato]

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scene Frame
    show bg behind Frame 
    show character behind rain with fade
    show  rain with dissolve 

Tried putting the transition after the character like above?

[zoranac]

Yeah I forgot to mention that one, It shows the frame and bg before actually doing the fade transition and looks pretty bad. similar to putting it on the rain however the character shows up after the fade.

[Kato]

Ah I see, give this a try then:

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scene Frame
show bg behind Frame 
show character behind rain
with fade
show  rain with dissolve 

[zoranac]

Nah that didn't work. I got it to a point where I will be content with it, however I would still like to know the answer to my original question if anyone has one.

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show black with fade
    show Frame behind black
    show bg behind Frame
    show character
    show rain
    hide black with fade

I just put a black screen over everything while it loads and fade that screen in and out... so it works well enough although I feel like I'm cheating.
Thanks for the help though, Kato.

[Kato]

That's really weird :/

Scene x
show y
show z
with dissolve
show q
with fade

would be read as:

Load Scene x, image y and image z with dissolve THEN show image q with fade.

I'm not sure why it isn't working in your case...