Narration issues (solved)

[heavensdeviant]

First of all I have the code for two separate text boxes but It only shows the dialogue one.
In my script I have it written as
$ narrator = Character(None, window_background="frame2.png")
just like the cookbook says but with my file name.

2nd of all
I've tried adjusting various things to make the narration align correctly. If It takes up one line it's fine but ones it gets to the second line it jumps down. like
http://i.imgur.com/A1ntQoj.jpg

I kept trying to change different things to make it work. I tried using the style inspector and put this in the options.rpy...
style.say_thought.yalign = 1.7
style.say_thought.ypos = 1.7
style.say_thought.yanchor = 0.3

I am using Ren'Py version 6.15.4.320

[nyaatrap]

Using styles in options.rpy just makes matters complex.
You can easily adjust those after you've learned about the screen language, and arrange them in screens.rpy.

out of topic: I feel options.rpy is outdated, and it makes hard to understand what current ren'py is.

[heavensdeviant]

I tried learning screen language but trying to apply it to the narration in the screens file wont work at all. The narration looks the same.

[pwisaguacate]

Set the textbox's corner size and/or padding. You can find this in options.rpy:

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    # style.window.background = Frame("frame.png", 12, 12)

    # style.window.left_padding = 6
    # style.window.right_padding = 6 
    # style.window.top_padding = 6
    # style.window.bottom_padding = 6

For the name box, attach xoffset / yoffset properties in screens.rpy:

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        # The one window variant.        
        window:
            id "window"

            has vbox:
                style "say_vbox"

            if who:
                text who id "who" xoffset 0 yoffset -15 # Adjust as needed

EDIT: Erm, yeah... I guess that wasn't too helpful.

[heavensdeviant]

But that would change the look of the dialogue when I just want to fix the narration.

[pwisaguacate]

The first part I posted realigns the dialogue.

EDIT: Sorry, I just noticed that the main issue is the "jumps down when longer than one line" thing, but I'm not sure what you did there. Do you have any code that could give us some leads?

[heavensdeviant]

I could change the dialogue and give it a frame just fine but when I try to change the look of the narration it doesn't work. I already deleted what I was using for the narration alignment since it wasn't working properly so it's not jumping any more, it's just not aligned to the text box.

[OokamiKasumi]

Something to consider; padding and margins are additive.
-- If you already have the margins & padding set in options.rpy--

options.rpy

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    ## Margin is space surrounding the window, where the background
    ## is NOT drawn.

    style.window.left_margin = 6
    style.window.right_margin = 6
    style.window.top_margin = 3
    style.window.bottom_margin = 20    

    ## Padding is space inside the window, where the background is
    ## drawn.

    style.window.left_padding = 6
    style.window.right_padding = 6
    style.window.top_padding = 6
    style.window.bottom_padding = 6

--the padding and margins you set in character definitions will ADD to those numbers.

script.rpy

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    define gi_side = Character('Giselle',
            color="6699cc", 
            who_xpos = 130, 
            window_left_padding = 150,
            show_two_window = True,)

[heavensdeviant]

Something to consider; padding and margins are additive.
-- If you already have the margins & padding set in options.rpy--

options.rpy

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    ## Margin is space surrounding the window, where the background
    ## is NOT drawn.

    style.window.left_margin = 6
    style.window.right_margin = 6
    style.window.top_margin = 3
    style.window.bottom_margin = 20    

    ## Padding is space inside the window, where the background is
    ## drawn.

    style.window.left_padding = 6
    style.window.right_padding = 6
    style.window.top_padding = 6
    style.window.bottom_padding = 6

--the padding and margins you set in character definitions will ADD to those numbers.

script.rpy

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    define gi_side = Character('Giselle',
            color="6699cc", 
            who_xpos = 130, 
            window_left_padding = 150,
            show_two_window = True,)

Thank you very much. I was able to get it by defining narrator as a character.

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define N = Character(None,
            color="6699cc", 
            who_xpos = 130, 
            window_background="frame2.png",
            window_top_padding = 55,
            window_left_padding = 21,
            show_two_window = True,)

[pwisaguacate]

The narrator is a special character:

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define narrator = Character(None, window_left_padding=160)

label start:
    "This text uses the narrator character to define how it looks."
    bob "This text uses the bob character to define how it looks."

    return

[heavensdeviant]

The narrator is a special character:

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define narrator = Character(None, window_left_padding=160)

label start:
    "This text uses the narrator character to define how it looks."
    bob "This text uses the bob character to define how it looks."

    return

Hmm, This may have been my problem then. The renpy faq has the narrator down as

$ narrator = Character(None, window_left_padding=160)

So I wasn't writing it in correctly.