Motion Sells Emotion

ATL animation pack for Ren'Py

Programming in animations can be intimidating, but the extra movement can really elevate a scene. This animation pack provides a framework, examples, and some instructions on how to use them.

Features:

• Building blocks
  • toleft and toright, so you don't have to remember which way is xzoom 1 and which way is xzoom -1
  • 6 shot lengths, from full to closeup
  • 11 positions along the x-axis
• Animations for characters!
  • walking/running and leaping to a specific spot
  • indefinite walk/run cycle
  • pacing (or maybe searching?)
  • bowing
  • jumping
  • vibrating*
  • flickering*
  • waltzing
  • see-sawing
  • 3AM cat zoomies
• Animations for other things!
  • leaf/paper fluttering to the ground
  • simple pickup animation
  • looping around the screen from left to right (or the other way around)
• “I want something else!”
  • Head over to the suggestions board. I might add it in a future update.

Limitations:

• For now, the pack assumes that your sprites are full-body, that they are all in scale with each other, and that they all face the same direction.
• This was made in Ren'Py 8.3.2; I make no guarantees for other versions.
• *WARNING: animations with an * could be dangerous to those with photosensitive epilepsy. I've done my best to reduce the risk, but if you have this condition, you may wish to avoid those demos. If you want to use those animations, you need to be careful.

How to use:

• Download the file and unzip it
• Copy MSE_transforms.rpy out of the /game/ folder and into your own
• "Play" the "game" and/or look through script.rpy for guidance

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International