seronis
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Sorry incomplete example. Was just showing transforms and transitions are still valid at that point. You can use a dictionary transform and those are 'non blocking'. you can also supply the duration you want the transition to last. 'dissolve' with no arguments defaults to half a second but you can supply the argument to be .1 seconds or 20 seconds or anything else"with dissolve" -- won't that take 1 second to crossfade from one frame to the next?
The trouble with movie formats is that, as far as I know, none of them really support transparency, so you can't overlay them on top of the backgrounds.
Given that animated GIFs are one of the most widely-used formats for that kind of thing, it seems like a rather glaring oversight that Renpy doesn't support it, really.
Either way, actually having the "series of image files" is still the sticking point, I suppose.Animation is a lot of work; I don't know if any of the current artists would be willing to go to quite that much effort. I'll keep that code snippet handy in case it ever comes up, though!
For movie formats I havent used the feature so cant show examples but renpy allows you to supply a mask to movies in the form of a black and white movie and it will use the cutout from one to apply transparency to the other. Alternatively you can have the movie file just be double wide with the right half being the transparency mask for the left half. Again thats outside my experience I just know the existence of the feature.
You should consider joining the renpy discord. Tons of people in there every day asking and answering various questions. If you need a link you can use
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