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So I just wanted to thank you all, again, and let you know how pleased I am that you enjoy this blog as much as you do.

At long last, I have conquered the Crop and Flatten. This marks the release of version 2.4 of my Portrait System. There are several drastic changes that have been made, though the ultimate functionality remains the same.

Complete refactoring of the Portrait class thanks to help from my friend Kistaro.

The Portrait is now correctly Flattened by... being a separate method wrapping the Displayable. It's honestly ridiculous how simple this is.

Text blip system redone to play a repeated sound rather than a loop, so it'll slow down if the text itself is slower, and does not play when the menu is open.

Speaker definition now a single tuple argument to create less cruft.

i suppose my question is, do you know how to or would you consider adding a feature that allows for hairstyles or a top layer to be swapped out? im hoping to make a game with a metric butt ton of alternate outfits and i figured alt hair that can go over the eyes and mouth (like for masks and such) would save on disk space while giving a lot of flexibility for character sprites. as someone who actually knows what the flip they're doing whats ur take? again, not urgent, so you dont need to grace this with an answer if ur not feelin like it 👍 (ps i really like ur art style! ur color palettes are GORGEOUS)

awawawa, it always surprises me to hear people using the Portrait System script. (My own Ren'py endeavours are so neglected.)

So while I don't intend to implement alternate outfits/hair/etc into the script itself, it shouldn't be too hard to do using Ren'py's existing functions - by using Composite.

image tamati neutral grey = Flatten(Composite((744, 1787), (0, 0), Portrait("tamati", "neutral", (298, 209), (339, 277)), (0, 0), "char/tamati/neutral_greyhair.png"))

In this example, besides Flatten, Composite takes arguments for image dimensions, and then pairs of co-ordinates and image objects. So it's using neutral Tamati's dimensions, 0, 0, neutral Tamati's portrait, 0, 0, and then a haphazard edit to bleach his hair.

Composite is what I messed with originally for eyes/mouth stuff, but I felt it would be unnecessarily wordy for how many possible expressions a given game might have.

However I will admit that this actually runs into the same problem, but instead with other parts of a portrait. You'd need to make alternate image arguments for every alternate outfit that exists per portrait. Per combination too.

You might be able to set the secondary layers to a variable, but off the top of my head I'm not sure how you'd do that, and it might require delving into dynamic displayables.

Sorry, I guess this is a long-winded way to say "you can do this with existing Ren'py stuff but I'm not sure I plan to implement this feature into the script itself". (Unless whenever I get to Twelve Thousand I realise this will be really helpful personally.)

I guess to be fair languages evolved over time, we didn't start with languages like we have now. Early languages were pictographic, and would've over time become more symbolic. The curious part is how different languages abstracted certain things in different ways.

AND YET MEANWHILE us worldbuilders have gotta start here, with modern constructions of languages, instead of getting a few thousand years to build up from the bottom.

I've sometimes thought about the furry language in Twelve Thousand being asemic but I'm not sure how that would work, outside magic. And even then scribes exist for those that cannot write because of things like feral paws.

Anyway please look~.