hey anyone knows why the word "play" does not activated? for example:
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Presuming those are the only lines you have... the reason is that you've only declared the displayable image... you haven't told RenPy to show it to the player yet.
Normally, you'd have something like...
Python:
image animation1 = Movie(play="test.webm")
label start:
scene black with fade
"*** START ***"
scene animation1 # show animation 1st time.
pause 8.0 # assuming movie is around 8 seconds long
scene animation1 with dissolve # show animation 2nd time.
pause 8.0
"*** THE END ***"
return
Where the image is declared somewhere at the top of the code, with any other predefined images you want to declare, and then later either a
scene animation1 or a
show animation1, depending on your needs. The
with dissolve is optional, but can sometimes avoid a brief flash of RenPy empty background.
The pauses wouldn't be needed if the
scene commands were followed by character dialogue. But without character's speaking... the
pause is needed.
Alternately code
image animation1 = Movie(play="test.webm", image="test.jpg", start_image="test.jpg")... where
test.jpg is a single image with the very first video frame.
image= and
start_image= are used for two different reasons to show a fixed image while the movie is being loaded/prepared.
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