Ren'Py: Quick example of adding lip

ap/animation to a talking character

@ARGENT GAMES · MAR 8, 2021 · 2 MIN READ

Short example of having an animation occur while a

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We received a question about adding lip ap

animation while a character is talking, so here’s a
short example. It works with layeredimages by treating
them the same as an image . We haven’t
benchmarked it to see if doing it this way makes you
lose out on the predicting/optimization powers of
layeredimages , however. If you benchmark it, we’d love
to hear about the results.

De ne the base sprite ( layeredimage ).

layeredimage taza_base:
always "images/sprites/taza/resize/base.png"

if taza_bow:
"images/sprites/taza/resize/bow.png"

group mouth prefix "m":

attribute n default "images/sprites/taza/resi

De ne the animated image.

image taza talking:

"taza m_n"
pause .25
"taza m_5"
pause .3
"taza m_4"
pause .2
repeat

De ne the lip ap callback event.

init python:
def taza_lip_flap(event,**kwargs):
# when the dialogue event is over, set Taza t
# we don't want him to continue moving his mo
# are speaking.
if event == "end":
renpy.show("taza m_n")
# show the animated image
else:
renpy.show("taza talking")

De ne the character.

cter(_("Sylvie"),callback=taza_lip_flap,image="taza")

Use the character.

label start:
""
show taza
"hello the weather is nice"
t "Lorem ipsum"

Code adapted from Mkol103 on the LemmaSoft forums.

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