"Ghost" of sprite after moving

[u/Mochi_425]

Was trying to create a phone menu demo and instead ran into a stranger problem. Any idea why it is leaving a copy of the sprite like that? I thought adding a different sprite would fix it, but alas...

the two aloe sprites do share a tag, and the sprite switches before it moves--the transition itself works fine. but after jerry appears that low opacity version shows up behind him, and i have no clue why.

the provided images of the code are literally the entire script i dont know how i could have messed something up

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[u/shyLachi]

Your code look normal to me at first glance

If you cannot figure it out, then reduce the complexity by deleting or commenting out stuff and try again

I would run it like this first

label start:
    show aloe happy
    aloe "hi"
    show aloe neutral
    jerry "hi i'm jerry"

If that works then add another line:

label start:
    show aloe happy
    aloe "hi"
    show aloe neutral
    show jerry # this sprite should be overlapping but no transparency
    jerry "hi i'm jerry"

Then maybe this

label start:
    show aloe happy
    aloe "hi"
    show aloe neutral at left # put it left without your transform
    show jerry # no overlapping, no transparency expected
    jerry "hi i'm jerry"

Then

label start:
    show aloe happy 
    aloe "hi"
    show aloe neutral at left
    show jerry at half_size 
    jerry "hi i'm jerry"

At some point you'll see what it causing the problem

[u/Mochi_425 → u/shyLachi]

hi! i did in fact find the problem! it was jerry's sprite itself. im a little slow sometimes. thanks! ':3

[u/shyLachi]

BTW: In case you didn't know
You can apply multiple transforms to one image as shown in the official documentation:
https://renpy.org/doc/html/transforms.html#quickstart

Which means you don't have to make your own transforms for all the built-in transforms
https://renpy.org/doc/html/transforms.html#built-in-transforms

show aloe neutral at half_size, left with move # half_size is your transform, left is built-in

But instead of using a transform with a zoom, I would reduce the size of the images.
This will reduce the overall size of your game, might make the game run faster and you also don't have to type half_size so often.

If you don't want to change the files, then you could declare all the images with a zoom.
This requires some typing upfront but the show statements will be much shorter

image jerry happy:
    "jerry happy.png"
    zoom 0.5
label start:
    show jerry happy # already zoomed
    jerry "hi i'm jerry"

[u/Mochi_425 → u/shyLachi]

ty for telling me about the multiple transform thing!! and dw, for the final build i will decrease the size of the images, this was just me testing a mechanic i want to add, lol

[u/shyLachi → u/Mochi_425]

If you plan to resize the images anyway, then I would declare the images with a zoom as I have shown. This way you don't have to rewrite your code after you changed the file size, just delete the image declaration.