renpy.show() questions

[halimgur]

I am new to Ren'Py but I am interested in its use as a teaching aid for engineering students. I would like to have a PYTHON function to display its argument at the given position. This is my PYTHON function code that works

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def myshow(image_name,x,y):
    renpy.show(image_name)

I could not make it working when I tried to use th arguments x and y to position the image.

How do I use the second and third arguments "x" and "y" to position the image (the first argument).

Reading the documentation, I thought something like the following would work:

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def myshow(image_name,x,y):
    renpy.show(image_name, at_list=[x,y])

It does not. Can anyone help?

[paktek123]

what are you passing as your 'x' and 'y'? These should be Position objects.

[xela]

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def my_show(image_name, x, y):
    renpy.show(image_name, at_list=[Transform(pos=(x, y))])

but there are at least 6 other ways it can be done. You'll prolly have to define images if you want to show them this way, you'll have to use Image/Transform/At if you load directly from path.

[halimgur]

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def my_show(image_name, x, y):
    renpy.show(image_name, at_list=[Transform(pos=(x, y))])

but there are at least 6 other ways it can be done. You'll prolly have to define images if you want to show them this way, you'll have to use Image/Transform/At if you load directly from path.

Thanks for this but this did not work for me. PYTHON complains that "Transform" is not defined.

I only have two renpy import statements:

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import renpy.store as store
import renpy.exports as renpy

Should I import other renpy modules to get "Transform" recognised as a legit class by PYTHON? I could not find a place in the documentation where it says how renpy classes should be imported into PYTHON.

In answer to the question on what x and y are, I was calling this function as

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my_show(image_name, 400, 500)

I understand about pixel and relative positions, etc. I understand how the Position class works. I cannot get PYTHON recognise it (or any other RENPY variable or class name for that matter other than the ones I define).

[xela]

I tend not to use .py files... what are your reasons?

You can prolly access it through:

renpy.display.motion.Transform or store.Transform...

[halimgur]

I tend not to use .py files... what are your reasons?

Great question !! I do not know why.

I have just put it as a PYTHON function into an RPY file and the problem is solved.

So, the lesson is that one should use .py files only when one needs to do non-renpy things (like calculations, etc). Otherwise, I need to include python code in the RPY files so that the python code can access the RENPY names.

Thank you very much.

[xela]

There is no reason to use .py files at all. You can put all logic in .rpy files on

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python:

indent.