Making a basic custom position

[Nova Alamak]

I've followed the documentation and checked the tutorial and since no one is asking this question on the forum, I must be missing something implicit. All I want to do is use absolute position (integers) to show an image at a certain point on screen. I anticipated that in the future I would reuse this position so I made a custom one like to documentation suggests:

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    transform gate:
        xpos 143.0 
        ypos 238.0

Later, I placed an image with

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    show hudra poiseddistant at gate

The image exists, is declared, matches up fine, no errors. But the image isn't shown. What am I doing wrong?

[Nova Alamak]

Never mind, figured it out sorta. I'll just put the position every time with Position(xpos= etc. Turns out that doesn't work unless you define anchors. Shouldn't the defaults be 0,0?

[PyTom]

Your problem is you want to use integers, but you're giving a floating point number. Unlike in math, in Python and Ren'Py, those are different types. Try:

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transform gate:
    xpos 143
    ypos 238

[fluxus]

Uhm.
I'm pretty sure PyTom means you to try

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transform gate:
    xpos 143
    ypos 238

The thing with floating-point and integers in Ren'Py screen positioning is that integers will be interpreted as an absolute position like you're expecting, while floating point numbers will be interpreted as relative positions; xpos 0.5 is the horizontal center of the screen, for example, regardless of whether you have 1024x768 or 800x600 as your screen resolution.

I'm not sure what xpos 143.0 would actually do.
Maybe it's regarded as out-of-bounds since it's above 1.0.
Then again, since characters can enter from outside the screen, perhaps it is actually drawn, off-screen.
A question for Ren'Py philosophers to ponder :]


Edit due to PyTom's follow-up: Philosophical question, solved. I feel like we're being spoiled, here

[PyTom]

Through the magic of editing my posts, I'm now saying what I mean.

143.0 actually has a well-define meaning. It's 143 times the width of the enclosing area from the left side of the enclosing area. If the enclosing area is the whole screen, it's 142 screens off the right side of the screen.