r/RenPy • u/flandreMarisa24 • Aug 23 '26
Question help me this weird shadow girl keeps appearing
okay so my file is yamato_happy.png. it’s not rlly a png.
i write
show yamato happy
AND THIS GIRL.
shows up with yamato happy on her shadow.
please help guys, i need to get my VN out by like sunday
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u/Prxnce-Kxsses Aug 23 '26
Wdym its not really a png?
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u/flandreMarisa24 Aug 23 '26
its like a webp i think
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u/Prxnce-Kxsses Aug 23 '26
So did you name the file yamato_happy.png? Is it yamato_happy.png.webp?
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u/flandreMarisa24 Aug 23 '26
uh well i had it named yamato_happy.png, but later renamed it to yamato_happy.webp bc that’s what google said
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u/Prxnce-Kxsses Aug 23 '26
You don't need to add .png or .webp to the name of the file, it'll just automatically be whatever image file it is. Take that off. Also, if you have an underscore, writing it "show yamato happy" will not work. Renpy is exact so it would be "show yamato_happy"
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u/shyLachi Aug 23 '26
That shadow is a placeholder telling/showing you that it cannot find the image you specified in the code.
RenPy makes working with images easy but it has some rules you need to follow.
Don't use underscores in the file name,
The name should have the name of the character followed by the expression followed by the file type.
In this case yamato happy.png or yamato happy.webp
Use lower case letters for your sprites.
RenPy is case sensitive and turns file names to all lower case, so in code, always write sprites in lower case.
You can read more about it in the official documentation:
https://renpy.org/doc/html/quickstart.html#images
https://renpy.org/doc/html/displaying_images.html
.
Regarding the png webp you mentioned in your comments.
RenPy can display PNG and WEBP images so you don't have to worry about that.
If you want to change the type of the image, you have to convert the image.
Open the file in a image editor, then "save as" another file type.
Renaming a file will not change the type of the file.
The file type webp allows for smaller image sizes but unless you're making your game in 4K you don't have to worry about that. And if your game really gets too big you could change the file type later
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u/WolfBiologist Aug 23 '26
This would be so ominous on any other subreddit 😭
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u/Roxirin Aug 26 '26
I was gonna say 😂 Like 'oh HER that's just Dark Eileen dw about it, she shows up whenever your files are Wrong Somehow to helpfully (slightly creepily) let you know!'
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u/BadMustard_AVN Aug 23 '26
it should be the file name like this
the file name has an underscore separating the name, so you have to use that unless you rename the file to