Seamless Character Expression Transition

[qsvgxn]

Hi everyone I'm completely new to making VNs and I'm having some trouble getting a certain (yet simple) effect going.

Basically, I want to have a character's expression change while they are in the middle of speaking. Something like after a comma or a short fragment sentence. I can do this with the following

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show char happy with dissolve
char "I am happy!"
show char sad with dissolve 
extend "\nNow I'm sad."

char gets a sad facial expression halfway through the dialogue on user click and continues printing the contents of the textbox. I also add in the dissolve transition because it looks nicer. BUT, that creates a problem. The textbox and the text in it go away completely while the transition occurs. I looked around a bit and found that by adding

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window show

to the beggining of the label the textbox remains but the text still gets turned off so the transition can happen.

So my question is, is it possible to have transitions into different emotions and poses happen completely independent of the textbox? I want it so that once the user clicks once char is done saying "happy!", both the dissolve to sad animation AND the printing of "Now I'm sad" happen at the same time with absolutely no elements on the screen dissapearing.

Thanks.

[Alex]

Try custom ATL transform instead of dissolve transition - http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... on#p193210

[qsvgxn]

Oh man that's the answer!

Having some trouble properly replicating the dissolve transition in atl though. I tried out your code and it's close but for about have the duration of the linear value the character sorta ghosts out due to the sprite being replaced having an alpha of .5 and the replacing sprite having an alpha of .5 simultaneously. Is there some alpha combining switch I need to flip to prevent this brief ghost effect?

[qsvgxn]

Ah, got it fixed. Just had to remove "alpha 0.0" in "on replace".