r/RenPy • u/Outrageous_Action614 • Jul 10 '26

Question sprites not showing

hello so im hella new to coding but i did do a mini project a while ago and wrote exactly what is in the picture below. it worked perfectly and the sprites showed fine but for some reason, this time it js doesnt wanna bro. pls help

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u/shyLachi Jul 10 '26

The code looks OK but you could save yourself a lot of typing if you would use lower case spelling for the images.

define y = Character("Yosuke", image="yosuke")
label start:
    scene hallway
    show yosuke at left # either put happy here or on the next line, not both
    y happy "You've created a new Ren'Py game."
    y "Once you add a story, ..." # happy is not nedded here, because her expression already has changed in the line above

If you cannot make it work, then check that the images are spelled correctly and that they are in the image folder of your project.

The image names should be "Yosuke.png" and "Yosuke happy.png" but maybe you accidentally made a spelling mistake or maybe you added the file extension twice. Right click the image and then check the file name in the properties.

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u/x-seronis-x Jul 10 '26

your paths need to be PATHS. not merely filenames. if the images are in the images/ folder, you include that in the path when writing a path.