How do I create a scene with no sprites or textbox?

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LegendOri · #1 Post by **LegendOri** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 8:50 am

Hello,

This is my first post but I've been following this forum for a while now and I have to say it has been extremely helpful, thank you!

I feel a bit embarrassed to ask as I'm certain there's a really simple solution to this but I just can't seem to find the answer. My question is, how do I make a scene without dialogue/narrative or images? Here's an example of what I'm currently doing:

scene bg meadow
with fade
pause 4

scene bg house
with fade

However I'm finding that if you click to skip to the next scene it overrides any transition. How can I do this without using pause so you can just click to get to the next scene without any time constraint and keep the transitions?

Many thanks!

Imperf3kt · #2 Post by **Imperf3kt** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 9:22 am

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    window hide
    scene bg meadow
    with fade
    # You can cut back on lines by combining the two previous statements, into one. scene bg meadow with fade
    # This only works if you have no other images to fade in at the same time.

    scene bg house
    with fade
    window show
    "Story continues here"

LegendOri · #3 Post by **LegendOri** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 9:39 am

Hi Imperf3kt,

Thanks for the reply. I tried this method but with this example I'm finding the meadow scene blinks onto the screen for half a second and then cuts to house scene which isn't what I want to do.

Could this be to do with my settings?

Imperf3kt · #4 Post by **Imperf3kt** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:21 pm

That's because of the "scene" command
Try using "show" instead - it also works for backgrounds, you aren't required to use "scene" all the time.

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    window hide
    scene bg meadow with fade

    show bg house with fade
    window show
    "Story continues here"

LegendOri · #5 Post by **LegendOri** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:51 pm

Hmm..I've tried both variations of scene and show for bg meadow and bg house, but it still only shows bg meadow for just half a second before cutting to bg house. I'm not sure why it's doing this

DannyGMaster · #6 Post by **DannyGMaster** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 4:19 pm

Don't know if this will help, but I kind of solved this problem by creating a blank character that says nothing:

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define nothing = Character('', window_background=None) #This is the blank character, kind of a placeholder

label start:
   "Changing scenes."

    window hide
    scene bg meadow with fade

    nothing "" #Here I have nothing say an empty string. The user clicks, the next image is shown.

    scene bg house with fade
    window show
    "Story continues here"

I admit this is not the best solution and I hope someone does have a better one, I've also tried all manner of ways and this was the only one that worked.

LegendOri · #7 Post by **LegendOri** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 4:58 pm

Thank you DannyGMaster, this works!

Also just to add, I used window auto rather than window show so that it still fades out with each scene.

TellerFarsight · #8 Post by **TellerFarsight** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:51 pm

If you just type

pause

instead of

pause 4

it becomes a pause that lasts forever until you click. Just try removing the 4 and see if that works.

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