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Many games offer a function to show the background and sprites or event CG without the text window showing. This is a game menu screen that hides everything and returns on a click anywhere. To access this, you have to add an item like

( "gm_image", u"Show Image", _intra_jumps("_gm_image", "intra_transition"), 'True' )

to your config.game_menu array. Not that this will not hide the overlay; you have to clear it too if it's showing anything at this point.

Note that Ren'Py provides this behaviour by default on a press of the "h" key.

Code

label _gm_image:
# game menu without _anything_ shown.
    python:
        # use the predefined transition
        renpy.transition(config.intra_transition)

        # Wait for a mouse click before continuing.
        renpy.pause()

        renpy.transition(config.intra_transition)
        renpy.jump("_return") # returns to the game directly; could also possibly point back to the standard variable _game_menu_screen

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"Show Image" from the game menu

Code