[SOLVED]Help with a sequence

[KELPER]

Hi! I would like to accomplish the following:

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centered "am I dreaming?"
#I want a 3 seconds pause after the dialogue showed, and then without clicking:
show background_bright
$ renpy.pause(0.3)
show background_dark

Now, I tried to use renpy.pause after the dialogue. But the changing of backgrounds doesnt happen until I click. When I click, the text dissapears, and what I want is showing the text, waiting 3 seconds, for example, then, without clicking, having the backgrounds change, and while that is happening I want the text to still be on top, and not flicker.

How do I do this?

Thanks for the help.

[chewpower]

It can be done like this: declare an image with two background files in it.

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image bright_to_dark_bg:
    "background_bright.jpg"
    pause 3
    "background_dark.jpg"

Then

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scene bright_to_dark_bg
centered "am I dreaming?"

Like this?

[KimiYoriBaka]

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centered "am I dreaming?{w=3}{nw}"

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html ... -text-tags

[KELPER]

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centered "am I dreaming?{w=3}{nw}"

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html ... -text-tags

Oh, Ive tried that already. It makes the text dissapears when the background is changing, which I dont want.. Thank you anyway

Chewpower Im gonna try your suggestion now.

[KELPER]

Oh wait, I should have said. Its not that I have two different images, Its the same image with a filter I defined as bright, and another as dark. So I cant do what you suggested

[KELPER]

edit: I could make it kinda work, I only need to photoshop two different backgrounds.
Now, its there anyway in that "animation" to play a sound every time the background changes?

edit2: Ok, nevermind. I could work around it with a combination of tags and animation. Too bad I cant use the filters in the image list.
Another thing: Is there anyway to prevent the user from clicking? It messes up the coordination of the sequence.

[trooper6]

So, I have the same pause problem...my main menu code is here:

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label main_menu:
    show black onlayer underlay
    play music "00 sounds/01DanseMacabre.mp3" fadeout 1
    pause 2.0 #pause 1
    show bg title onlayer overlay with Dissolve(1)
    pause 2.0 #pause 2
    call screen main_menu

My second pause just doesn't work.

What I want:

Screen is black.
Danse Macabre plays.
2 seconds later the tile screen dissolves in and stays there for 2 seconds.
The Main_menu screen dissolves in.

What I get:

Screen is black.
Danse Macabre plays.
2 seconds later the tile screen dissolves in.
Immediately after it shows up, the screen abruptly goes black and stays black for two seconds.
The Main_menu screen dissolves in.

I really wish I could figure out how to have the title image sit there for 2 seconds and not cut off immediately.

[KimiYoriBaka]

try bringing the same text back up as the next interaction.

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centered "am I dreaming?{w=3}{nw}"
show background_bright
extend "{w=0.3}{nw}"
show background_dark
extend ""

[KELPER]

try bringing the same text back up as the next interaction.

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centered "am I dreaming?{w=3}{nw}"
show background_bright
extend "{w=0.3}{nw}"
show background_dark
extend ""

Ok, that did exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much. Ill leave the solution here.

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 centered "am I dreaming?{w=2.0}{nw}" with dissolve
    play sound scarysound
    show background_bright with None
    extend "{w=0.5}{nw}"
    show background_dark with None
    extend ""

That makes the text stay all the way through the background changing AND the sound happen exactly when the background changes.

[trooper6]

I followed the spirit of your advice KimiYoriBaka and got my code to work like so:

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label main_menu:
    show black onlayer underlay
    play music "00 sounds/01DanseMacabre.mp3" fadeout 1
    pause 2.0
    show bg title onlayer overlay with Dissolve(1.0) 
    show bg title onlayer overlay with Pause(2.0)
    call screen main_menu

Thanks!