Tell me, which is good for a "close my eyes" effect?

[curry nochi rice]

I was wondering if someone could distinguish between dissolve and fade to stimulate a character closing his eyes (black) and opening it again (scene)

which in your own opinion works best for this one?

[Aleema]

... a fade is less to type? Both transitions are the same in what they do, but a fade codes the black for you. Or am I missing something? I think I'm missing something. >_>

I had an idea when trying to go for the eye closing effect to get the top and bottom part of the screen to close to black, but it never worked out/looked any good. Sorry.

[IceD]

Normal dissolve is the best if we're talking about two sprites changing one over another, unless you're going to add some additional effects. I don't know what exactly do you have in mind, though ^^

Other than that, wouldn't it be better to have them blink their eyes in realtime (http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/coo ... d_Lip_Flap)? It's quite simple to implement and looks much better, if you're going for fancy effects/more realism in your game.

[curry nochi rice]

so they are the same....?

currently, I'm using "fade" for the player's close eye effect....
and "fade"... i didn't use it yet with sprites...but normally, you use "dissolve" most of the time right?

[IceD]

Fade goes from and to black, while dissolve changes display smoothly from one graphic into another. I'd rather use dissolve, because fade is only good with certain effects.

[PyTom]

Assuming you're talking about the POV character opening and closing his eyes - why not consider using an ImageDissolve? With the right image, you could have the top and the bottom dissolve to black first, and then the center - simulating an eye-close. Reverse that, and the center will become visible first, then the top and bottom - simulating an eye open.

[Snowflower]

Assuming you're talking about the POV character opening and closing his eyes - why not consider using an ImageDissolve? With the right image, you could have the top and the bottom dissolve to black first, and then the center - simulating an eye-close. Reverse that, and the center will become visible first, then the top and bottom - simulating an eye open.

Eh?
I looked at the tutorial game, hoping that would be on there.
However, no such luck finding the right effect.
Do you mind explaining here how that's done?

[Megaman Z]

An imagedissolve uses an image to control the transition from one scene to another (in your scenario, from wherever you're at to a scene that's entirely black). It requires a grayscale image (I think - never tried it with a color image) which determines which pixels fade when.

A vertical gradient with the black in the center and white at the top and bottom edges is probably what you'd want as far as an image, and it's fairly easy to do in Gimp/Paint.NET/etc.

[Snowflower]

But in the tutorial's imagedissolve, all the effects are done to a color image...

[PyTom]

An imagedissolve use a black and white image (really, the red channel of an image) to dissolve between two displayables. So while the end result is in color, a black and white image is used to control it.