Shorter blink code ?

[Newnewbie]

Hi guys!

I have a got a newb question (again).

I display blink on my characters face. And those are always in the same position. So I declared (example) :

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image blinks:
    "images/blinks0000.png"
    pause 0.8
    "images/blinks0001.png"
    pause 0.8
    repeat

But my question is, should I always indicate the position of my blink under every character dialogue line ? :

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show blinks:
    xpos 335
    ypos 72

Or is there a way to make this shorter?

Like writing a function or something to just write "show blinks" (dunno how we call it)?

Thank you

[Per K Grok]

Hi guys!

I have a got a newb question (again).

I display blink on my characters face. And those are always in the same position. So I declared (example) :

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image blinks:
    "images/blinks0000.png"
    pause 0.8
    "images/blinks0001.png"
    pause 0.8
    repeat

But my question is, should I always indicate the position of my blink under every character dialogue line ? :

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show blinks:
    xpos 335
    ypos 72

Or is there a way to make this shorter?

Like writing a function or something to just write "show blinks" (dunno how we call it)?

Thank you

You should probably look at layered images

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/layeredi ... ht=layered

[deltadidirac]

Hi guys!

I have a got a newb question (again).

I display blink on my characters face. And those are always in the same position. So I declared (example) :

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image blinks:
    "images/blinks0000.png"
    pause 0.8
    "images/blinks0001.png"
    pause 0.8
    repeat

But my question is, should I always indicate the position of my blink under every character dialogue line ? :

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show blinks:
    xpos 335
    ypos 72

Or is there a way to make this shorter?

Like writing a function or something to just write "show blinks" (dunno how we call it)?

Thank you

Try so,

1) create a new folder in images folder (as... images/character_atl)
2) save there your images and DEFINE IT

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image blink01:
	"images/character_atl/blink01.png"
	xalign 0.3 yalign 0.45                           ##########   here I don't remeber if you must use xalign or xpos (try both)
image blink02:
	"images/character_atl/blink02.png"
	xalign 0.3 yalign 0.45
image blink_hide:    ######## this is a transparent rectangular with the same dimension of the eyes ( for your example, you need it to call and create all)
	"image/character_atl/blink_hide.png"
	align 0.3 yalign 0.45    
etc...  #######PS you must and need to define also a "character background" on witch your eyes animation run hover.... ("char_paul_blink.png" e.g.)

3) create your ATL :

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transform blinks01:
	"blink01"
	pause 0.8
	"blink02"
	pause 0.8
	repeat

4) now you can call and execute your animation :

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lable my_label_blink:
	scene my_background_location with dissolve   ######## this is your location
	show char_paul_blink                                     ######## this is the character that have the animation
	show blink_hide at blinks01                            ######## this is your transparent rectangular that call and run your ATL
	a "hi gorgeus!"
	jump elswhere

try to read well my example, because it's a little bit different how is define all and read well the renpy documentation in the renpy site

[deltadidirac]

PS....
I must apologize....
re-reading your post, perhaps I understand bad and you don't use a character without eyes and after you show eyes hover it...
but on contrary perhaps you are using the complete character with eyes open/eyes closed? (in this case is more easy to write all) and your example is right

The more simple way that I know to not going crazy with the definitions and the positions is to build all the png files in the window game dimension....
For eample : if you are building your game in 800X600 pxl so, all your png files (that will need animation) it might create in 800X600 pxl
in this way you have not need to define the position, it's ok only the "show" command....

[Newnewbie]

Thank you guys I'm going to try both!