LayeredImage auto not populating attributes

[morkalmarrh]

First of all, thanks for making RenPy. I think what I have may be a bug and not me being stupid, but if I am, sorry!

Using auto doesn't populate the attributes of a layeredimage for me (8.2.1). They can't be used in the file ('unknow attribute' when using show, nothing at all with a proxied side images). They don't show up on the inspector.

Uncertain if this truly is a but but I've seen a related issue here: https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=50663 and here https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=60875. I notice someone could only fix it by starting a new file.

My project is quite new. I tried a force recompile, but no real success.

RenPy has no problem finding the images. A direct call to them or just group eyes: attribute frown will find character_eyes_frown for example. The issue I am having is just that auto isn't... being very automatic.

Additionally, when I define attributes as 'attribute frown' (instead of attribute frown: "images/character/eyes/character_eyes_frown.png") I can't remove defaults. When I define it with the exact filepath, I can remove defaults. When using attribute frown, when I right click to toggle it off, the editor recognises I've turned it off, but then doesn't actually turn it off. I'm aware that removing a character's eyes is a bizarre use case but you know what I mean.

 layeredimage character:

    attribute body default

    group right auto:

        attribute down default

    group left auto:

        attribute norm default

    group eyes auto

    group mouth auto

    group brows auto

    attribute fringe default

image side character = LayeredImageProxy("character")

define k = Character("Character", image="character")

Here it is. Files are set up as /images/<character>/<group>/<character>_<group>_<attribute>.png but folding them into the base didn't help. As stated, RenPy is finding them just fine, just not for auto.

EDIT: Fixed copy-paste idnenting issue, sorry for confusion.

[Gouvernathor]

Your code has indent issues.
The behavior of layeredimages, unless you provide all attributes explicitly (which you don't, and that's good), is very dependent on how you name your files - and also not at all dependent on what folder you put them in.
Can you share a list of your file names (not the files themselves or their full path, as long as they are somewhere inside the image folder). Maybe not a full list, but so we get an idea.

[morkalmarrh]

Hi, yes, sorry, the actualy code doesn't, I copied and pasted it badly.

Here it is. I've also edited the code snippet to be correct.

it's:

character_left_norm.png
character_right_down.png
character_eyes_squint.png
character_eyes_soft.png
character_brows_angry.png
character_brows_sad.png
character_mouth_frown.png
character_mouth_grin.png
character_fringe.png
character_body.png

[Gouvernathor]

I reproduce that behavior using dummy images (show character sad or show character soft say that the attribute is unknown) but my own layeredimages keep working as usual, so it's not obvious to me what the problem is.

[morkalmarrh]

How strange. That's the file names, though it's actually:

images/character/character_fringe.png
images/character/character_body.png
images/character/arms/character_right_down.png
images/character/arms/character_left_norm.png
images/character/eyes/character_eyes_soft.png

etc. To my understanding though the pattern ignores the folders and the folders are just for our benefit as devs.

But as mentioned, collapsing everything down into the images folder and recompiling didn't fix the issue, so it must be something I've written into this snippet. Thank you for testing it, I'll keep trying to tweak small things and see what it is I've done incorrectly. I avoided the usual strings we should avoid in Python... probably isn't the names themselves. I'll be back if I find what it is that RenPy is disliking. :^ )

[renpytom]

Any luck yet?

[morkalmarrh]

Ah, sorry - nah, no luck. I have no idea what the issue is!