Procedures? [Solved, thanks!]

[moodykillmar]

I want to have something happen to an image every time I call it, and I know that in Python you can define procedures like that, but can you do it with Ren'Py? It would save a lot of space. I don't mind copy/pasting the functions, I just want to know if there's a better way to do it? A less cluttered way?

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show spell at truecenter:
zoom 2.0 
linear 1.0 zoom 1.0
linear 1.0 zoom 2.0
repeat 5

My code is on a different computer so it looks kinda odd, but that's essentially what it does.

[DannyGMaster]

Probably what you want is to create a transform:

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transform spell_animation:
    xalign .5 #This puts the image at truecenter
    yalign .5
    zoom 2.0 
    linear 1.0 zoom 1.0
    linear 1.0 zoom 2.0
    repeat 5.0

This is not actually a procedure (also called function), it's a block of ATL (Animation and Transformation Language) used by Ren'Py, but once it is coded you can use it as many times as you like just like you would a function.

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    label start:
        "A spell..."

        show spell at spell_animation

        "Another spell..."
        
        show spell2 at spell_animation

More on transform and ATL here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/atl.html

[moodykillmar]

Probably what you want is to create a transform:

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transform spell_animation:
    xalign .5 #This puts the image at truecenter
    yalign .5
    zoom 2.0 
    linear 1.0 zoom 1.0
    linear 1.0 zoom 2.0
    repeat 5.0

This is not actually a procedure (also called function), it's a block of ATL (Animation and Transformation Language) used by Ren'Py, but once it is coded you can use it as many times as you like just like you would a function.

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    label start:
        "A spell..."

        show spell at spell_animation

        "Another spell..."
        
        show spell2 at spell_animation

More on transform and ATL here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/atl.html

PERFECT! Thanks so much.