[RMXP] problem with Game_picture.new

[cobo3]

First of all, i'm new in this forum so ill introduce myself! I'm a experienced maker except in scripts, ive just started learning. I also want to say that I'm spanish and i can manage to understand and speak english, but i'm not native hehe. Ive come to this forum bcos no one answers my qestions in soanish forums.. i hope you all are kinder

I am doing a cms, and after creating windows and scenes and whatever, everything works ok, but i want to put an picture that gets bigger and smaller at my will . The problem is that if I create the icon with the RPG::Cache etc type, i can't put the .zoom_x/.zoom_y that i want. So I decided to copy the picture (/icon/"picture_name") to the /Picture folder. Afterward, i write the following lines:

@picture = Game_Picture.new(1)
@picture.show("picture_name",0,14,14,100,100,255,0)

And after this i put the @picture.update in the correct place, but the problem shows when I try to open the menu, that, in fact, opens, but there is no picture. To prove that it is not a "jump the line command" (to name it somehow xd) error I changed the origin value (which is the second propiety, one first 0) into a string and actually it returns me an error. So I also tried to change the "picture name" propiety (not the name of the picture, but the picture_name) to some nosense name, and it does not return me any error. The fact is that I don't know what kind of error i am doing. I'd be thankful if someone could help me.

PD: I am really sorry about my english, excuse me. I try to do my bests

 

[Brewmeister]

You need a Sprite to display the picture. There are already 50 sprites with linked picture objects waiting for you to use them. (Look at Spriteset_Map & Sprite_Picture to see how they are set up.)
You should be able to just use...

$game_screen.pictures[1].show("picture_name",0,14,14,100,100,255,0)

to display your picture

$game_screen.pictures[1].move() # see the move method in Game_Picture for arguments

to zoom in, etc..

$game_screen.pictures[1].erase

to stop showing the picture

 

[BlueScope]

IMO, it's not really advantegeous to use $game_screen.pictures for script operations, as one doesn't need to go the extra way around... Just use something like the following:

[rgss]@zoom_picture = Sprite.new
@zoom_picture.bitmap = # your image path reference here - and yeah, from RPG::Cache!
@zoom_picture.zoom_x = ... # or '@zoom_picture.bitmap.zoom_x = ...' if that zoom stuff is part of the Bitmap class
[/rgss]

That's the way any sprite is drawn, so doing it over $game_screen.pictures is unnecessarily complicated and resource-exhausting. And while we're at resource-exhausting: Remember to dispose the sprite!