Background animation motionless until fade-in has finished

[PEd1]

So I have background animations and in "General Settings" I have "Default transition when changing rooms" set to "FadeOutAndIn"... (I am using the Tumbleweed template btw).

When my player enters the room, the animation is motionless during the fade-in (and any animations in the previous room are motionless during the fade-out of that room).

If I change the transition to "Instant" everything is moving right away...

Is there any way to have the FadeOutAndIn, but where the animations are already moving while the scene fades in?

[Crimson Wizard]

Default AGS transitions are blocking everything in the room, including background animations. Maybe this is not a particularly good design, but so it is right now.

If you like a different behavior, then make your own transition effect:
1. Set AGS transition to Instant.
2. Create a empty fullscreen GUI with black background.
3. In "before fade-in" event set GUI visible and Transparency 0.
4. In "after fade-in" event emulate fading effect changing GUI's Transparency from 0 to 100 in a loop, and remove it completely after with Visible = false.

Use "on_event" global function in GlobalScript instead of room events, this way you won't have to repeat same code in each room:
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/Globalfunctions_Event.html#on_event

Code: ags

function on_event(int event, int data)
{
    if (event == eEventEnterRoomBeforeFadein)
    {
        gFadeOut.Visible = true;
        gFadeOut.Transparency = 0;
    }
    else if (event == eEventEnterRoomAfterFadein )
    {
        while (gFadeOut.Transparency < 100)
        {
            // adjust numbers to change the fade-in speed
            gFadeOut.Transparency = gFadeOut.Transparency + 2;
            Wait(1);
        }
        gFadeOut.Visible = false;
    }
}

You may do opposite (fadeout) effect on eEventLeaveRoom event.

[PEd1]

Excellent, thanks!

Default AGS transitions are blocking everything in the room, including background animations. Maybe this is not a particularly good design, but so it is right now.

It's just a minor/subtle thing, and I think I'm noticing it more because I just added animations, so I'm very aware of them...
I think most players either don't notice, or they know it's the scene fading-in before everything is "live" in the room.

Though it's great to also have this option to alter it if necessary, thanks!