A displayable is a term used throughout Ren’Py to refer to things which can be shown to the player, typically through a line like show eileen happy
or adding it to a screen like add AlphaMask("feniks.png", "mask.png")
. Regular images are displayables, and several structures that combine multiple images into one are displayables, such as Composite or layered images. Ren’Py also accepts colours as displayables (e.g. add "#000"
will add a solid black image to a screen), which are automatically turned into a displayable called Solid
.
Broadly, basically everything you can display to the user is a displayable to Ren’Py, though if a class or function says it accepts a displayable, it’s expecting you to package it up in a format it can understand like an image path or one of the Python equivalents for screen language statements, like VBox
.
You can read up more on displayables in the Ren’Py documentation here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayables.html#displayables
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