Until a few days ago I thought I knew how to display sprites with side images and have "talks" on screen where the sprite and side image change expressions. That is until I found the extend command.
Now what I'm unsure of if using extend (way 2 below) is different from not using it (example way 1 below). Thus is the outcome there in all cases the same, or are there side effects by one of the 2 ways that are not to be seen at first glance (or short: are there any real differences aside from the code used for the 2 ways?)
Way 1: How I handled things so far
Jason happy "Hey that is a good idea"
Eila grinning "yeah sure....."
Eila angry ".....are you NUTS?!"
Way 2: extend version
show Jason happy
Jason "Hey that is a good idea"
show Eila grinning
Eila "yeah sure....."
show Eila angry
extend ".....are you NUTS?!"
In case you didn't get your answer yet:
extend adds to the previous line after mouse click.
So when you're at the "yeah sure....." line and you click, Way 1 would be something like:
Eileen: ".....are you NUTS?!"
While Way 2 would be:
Eileen: "yeah sure..........are you NUTS?!"
Reference: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue.html