I never considered this, as I was stuck in the old CyberMistress "one image per 'page'" mindset, until I realized that the White Queen script loads multiple images at once to show the player and opponent's card hands!

I looked at the code for it but it made absolutely zero sense to me (way beyond my knowledge!), but I'd love to use a simpler technique for a big project I'm working on.

So, assuming this is indeed possible, can someone help me out with how I would display an image on TOP of another image?

Example:
* The "bottom" image fills the picture area just like a normal image. It could be a "background" of a bedroom.
* The smaller "top" image (which could be a person with a transparent background) appears centered over the bottom one, so the background can be seen where it is transparent.
* For those who know them, think of how visual novels (and engines like RenPy) display backgrounds and characters for the similar effect I'm trying to achieve here.

Can something like this be done with SexScripts/Groovy or am I wasting my time?

There is no simple mean, but it's not too hard. The White Queen use it. As it is done, it won't work with Android.

The second one must be a PNG file.

Here is an example

I wrote a function fro sexcards script (that I did not publish - as wanted to keep it android safe):
I will try and dig the code for it out tomorrow as I don't have it on my laptop but I used it to overlay an image on a card so should do what you want

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Found it.. and updated it for ver 6..



so can use the function as follows:
setImageOverlay("part1.png","part2.png",40,0)

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Thank you SO much! That is awesome, and exactly what I was wanting to do!

In fact, it's so cool, can I include it in an update to my "tutorial" script, Liz?

You're welcome, feel free to use it in your tutorial - just a rehash of other peoples work anyway I always thought it may be interesting to do something with the fight script with it.. but now you got me thinking I may write a visual novel with a bit of kinky twist to it for my next project...

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Note:
Have fixed the bug above that stops it working on linux (second to last line jpg should be png)

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Good to have that fixed, Liz... thanks!

One question for you or Doti, though... is it possible to display the overlay as "upside-down" (i.e. flipped vertically)? It doesn't have to be as a case-by-case parameter, just something in the actual setImageOverlay that says "show the overlay .png but rotate it 180 degrees").

Everything is possible but : 180 degrees rotation is not a vertical flip

To flip vertically have a - height value in the overlay

graphics.drawImage(osprite,xpos,ypos,owidth,-oheight, null)

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Thanks heaps, Liz!

And changing both width and height (to minus) "rotated" it upside-down.

Works perfectly. I appreciate the quick help.