How to define a bunch of images?

[bbs3223474]

Well, engine's tutorial told me that I can use a command like
image bg bg01 = "image/bg01.bmp"
so that I can simply use
scene bg bg01
to load that background image.

But I still have bunch of those images to use like bg02.bmp and so on. It's too tire to define them one by one. So how can I define them all just using a simple command?

[Zetsubou]

For basic define statements, you could use this: https://github.com/koroshiya/renpy-imag ... -simple.py

[xavimat]

You can use config.automatic_images and config.automatic_images_strip:
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.ht ... tic_images

[bbs3223474]

Thanks

[bbs3223474]

You can use config.automatic_images and config.automatic_images_strip:
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.ht ... tic_images

How can I use it?
I've already add this command in options.rpy but when I use

scene bg01

it still can't shows the picture.
So I wondering about whether I made some mistakes because I can't understand how excatlly to use this command.

[Corvo]

Well, engine's tutorial told me that I can use a command like
image bg bg01 = "image/bg01.bmp"
so that I can simply use
scene bg bg01
to load that background image.

Are you using bmp images? According to the documentation config.automatic_images works for .png and .jpg files.

[bbs3223474]

Well, engine's tutorial told me that I can use a command like
image bg bg01 = "image/bg01.bmp"
so that I can simply use
scene bg bg01
to load that background image.

Are you using bmp images? According to the documentation config.automatic_images works for .png and .jpg files.

I converted them into .png files.
Just don't understand what statement should follow behind config.automatic_images =

[trooper6]

So, bbs3223474, I've never used that command before, but whenever I have questions about how to use something, I search a) the Documentation and b) search these message boards.

xavimat linked you to the documentation which tell you how to use the command: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.ht ... tic_images
But you say you don't understand what statement should follow behind background image.

So I did a search of the lemmasoft forums for "config.automatic_images"

and came up with a few posts that show a completed version of that command:
In this thread: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... es#p352816
PyTom posts the completed command as:

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init python:
    config.automatic_images = [ '_' ]

In this thread: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... es#p350451

mjshi posts the completed command as:

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config.automatic_images = [ '_', '/' ]

Going back to the documentation is says:
I

f not None, this causes Ren'Py to automatically define images.

When not set to None, this should be set to a list of separators. (For example, [ ' ', '_', '/' ].)

Ren'Py will scan through the list of files on disk and in archives. When it finds a file ending with .png or .jpg, it will strip the extension, then break the name at separators, to create an image name. If the name consists of at least two components, and no image with that name already is defined, Ren'Py will define that image to refer to a filename.

With the example list of separators, if your game directory contains:

eileen_happy.png, Ren'Py will define the image "eileen happy".
lucy/mad.png, Ren'Py will define the image "lucy mad".
mary.png, Ren'Py will do nothing. (As the image does not have two components.)

So what do you put after "config.automatic_images"? Whatever separator you are using in the way you've named your files.

Look especially at this part:

With the example list of separators, if your game directory contains:

eileen_happy.png, Ren'Py will define the image "eileen happy".
lucy/mad.png, Ren'Py will define the image "lucy mad".
mary.png, Ren'Py will do nothing. (As the image does not have two components.)

So, how are your files organized and named? The answer to that question will dictate what you put after config.automatic_images
If you haven't named or organized your files properly in the first place, you won't get what you want out of config.automatic_images

[bbs3223474]

So, bbs3223474, I've never used that command before, but whenever I have questions about how to use something, I search a) the Documentation and b) search these message boards.

xavimat linked you to the documentation which tell you how to use the command: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.ht ... tic_images
But you say you don't understand what statement should follow behind background image.

So I did a search of the lemmasoft forums for "config.automatic_images"

and came up with a few posts that show a completed version of that command:
In this thread: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... es#p352816
PyTom posts the completed command as:

Code: Select all

init python:
    config.automatic_images = [ '_' ]

In this thread: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... es#p350451

mjshi posts the completed command as:

Code: Select all

config.automatic_images = [ '_', '/' ]

Going back to the documentation is says:
I

f not None, this causes Ren'Py to automatically define images.

When not set to None, this should be set to a list of separators. (For example, [ ' ', '_', '/' ].)

Ren'Py will scan through the list of files on disk and in archives. When it finds a file ending with .png or .jpg, it will strip the extension, then break the name at separators, to create an image name. If the name consists of at least two components, and no image with that name already is defined, Ren'Py will define that image to refer to a filename.

With the example list of separators, if your game directory contains:

eileen_happy.png, Ren'Py will define the image "eileen happy".
lucy/mad.png, Ren'Py will define the image "lucy mad".
mary.png, Ren'Py will do nothing. (As the image does not have two components.)

So what do you put after "config.automatic_images"? Whatever separator you are using in the way you've named your files.

Look especially at this part:

With the example list of separators, if your game directory contains:

eileen_happy.png, Ren'Py will define the image "eileen happy".
lucy/mad.png, Ren'Py will define the image "lucy mad".
mary.png, Ren'Py will do nothing. (As the image does not have two components.)

So, how are your files organized and named? The answer to that question will dictate what you put after config.automatic_images
If you haven't named or organized your files properly in the first place, you won't get what you want out of config.automatic_images

I'm sorry that I'm rookie in programming. All background image was inside bg folder and named bg01a,bg02a,bg03a...... So how should I use them and is this command inside option.rpy?
BTW, I'm Chinese and not so good at English. Sometime a specific example can make me understand easily than a lot of explanation.