Hi, (yes, I'm new.)
For the time being, are you aware that you can do something like this in GIMP to find out coordinates?:
1.
Drop the graphic elements onto a Screen-sized canvas and position them as you want.
2. Bring up the PyGIMP
console (Filters->Python->Console) [This does require that you enabled PyGIMP during install, if you're running Windows. On Linux it's available by default]
3.
Paste this in:
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def offsets():
for i in l:
print ('# %s' % i.name);
print ("\t" + (",\n\t".join(["(%3d, %3d), %20r" % (v.offsets[0], v.offsets[1], v.name) for v in i.layers])))
print ('')
o = offsets()
You can then
4.
Get a printout of the current positions of every layer just by typing
in the console ['o' is just a shorter alias for 'offsets', of course]
offsets() actually gives a tabular printout of the positions of every layer
in every image.
(I like this solution particularly because GIMP includes A. the ability to easily nudge layers by small (Arrow keys) or larger (Shift+Arrow keys) amounts,
and B. the Align tool for positioning layers relative to each other)
I'd like to hack up a GIMP plugin for this later, actually. A quick hack will do for now
Hope someone gets some use out of it
EDIT:
Here's a relative-positioning version.. well, just replace that one line:
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print ("\t" + (",\n\t".join(["(%1.3f, %1.3f), %20r" % (float(v.offsets[0]) / i.width, v.offsets[1] / i.height, v.name) for v in i.layers])))
and also a version which assumes the anchoring is central rather than top right.
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print ("\t" + (",\n\t".join(["(%3d, %3d), %20r" % (v.offsets[0] + (v.width / 2), v.offsets[1] + (v.width / 2), v.name) for v in i.layers])))
That one is probably the most useful. I'm still learning about the practicalities of using RenPy, although the system itself is perfectly straightforward
