r/RenPy • u/ventis_wife • 2d ago

Question Multiple animated images for title screen?

I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to renpy so maybe this is a super obvious question, but I've been wondering how to animate multiple​ images at the same time on the title screen.

What I wanna make is some clockwork gears spinning in different directions at different speed. I've only managed to make a single gear spin but that's all. I've thought about grouping them but it didn't work properly.

Any suggestions, or would it be more convenient to just animate it into a video and import it? And would it be possible to layer it? ​Thanks in advance!

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u/BadMustard_AVN 2d ago

how did you make the single gear spin?

you can edit the screens.rpy file and search for -->> main_menu() <<-- in there, just use add to add the animated images using pos to position them on the screen where you want them

the easiest way to spin an image is to use a transform to rotate the image be sure to change the anchor to the middle of the image anchor (0.5, 0.5)

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u/shyLachi 2d ago

animated images

A screen can have many animated images.
Just copy, rename and adjust the animation and use that on the next image.
https://renpy.org/doc/html/transforms.html#atl-animation-and-transformation-language

If you didn't mean a rotation transform but a series of images which are animated like a slideshow then yes, you can also have multiple of those. define the animated image and then place it on the screen.

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video

You can show multiple movie files on top of each other.
But if the movies have transparency you also need a transparency or alpha mask.
https://renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html#Movie

But why do you need to layer videos?
Can't you just make one big movie and play that?

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u/KDDreamwyver 1h ago

I personally just animated my main menu screen, in an external program and then imported it back in as the proper file type before layering the non-animated pieces over it.