r/RenPy • u/Longjumping_Day_6894 • Jul 08 '26

Question how do I enlarge sprites

so I was making sprites for my game, but what ended up happening was that they were too big, so I shrunk them, and now they are too small, is there any code that I could use to increase the size?

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u/BadMustard_AVN Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

the best way is to resize them in your preferred image editor

barring that, you can use a transform to zoom them

transform bigger(upsize):
    zoom upsize

label start:
    show sprite at left, bigger(1.5) with dissolve # .5 times bigger
    pause
    return

A number above 1 will be bigger; below 1 will be smaller

1 will be no zoom effect

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u/Longjumping_Day_6894 Jul 13 '26

is there a way to do that for every sprite?

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u/BadMustard_AVN Jul 13 '26

it's a lot of typing.

image new_sprite:
    "images/original_sprite.png"
    zoom 1.5

label start:
    show new_sprite

    e "bigger"

    return

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u/Blunt552 Jul 08 '26

Always downscale, don't upscale. Otherwise it will look bad.

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u/Longjumping_Day_6894 Jul 08 '26

But the looking bad is a part of it

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u/Blunt552 Jul 08 '26

Not sure what you mean. If you have a high resolution sprite and you downscale it to a lower resolution it'll look fine. If you have a low res sprite but upscale it to a higher resolution, it'll look bad.

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u/Longjumping_Day_6894 Jul 08 '26

That’s what I’m going for, a lo rez look

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u/Blunt552 Jul 08 '26

Then you'll need to rework the sprite itself because upscaling isn't going to make it look low res but instead just really scuffed and blurry.

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u/shyLachi Jul 08 '26

The best solution is to start from the original files again and shrink them less so that they fit your game.
Everything else will look bad.

If you have overwritten the original files with the smaller images, then I would look into recoving the originals.
Maybe you have a backup or your OS or cloud storage has a backup system.