Setting default anchors to characters [Answered!]

[yuucie]

Hello! I've spent about an hour googling and searching the forums but I can't find a clue to what seems to be a really simple problem.

My character sprites are full-body, which means the default anchors set them to soaring heights (they fly really high up on the screen so all I see is their legs). I've tried fixing the problem by manually inputting the anchors when they appear onscreen, like such:

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 show Character Neutral at Position(yanchor=0.5, ypos=0.75)

which works wonderfully, until I try to move them into a different position, like moving left on the screen.

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 show Character Neutral at left with move(yanchor=0.5, ypos=0.75)

The problem is I cannot manually set the position to the anchor points, so when Character slides left, he also soars into the skies again and I can't bring him down.

So I want to know how to re-define the default anchor points for characters. I don't want to manually enter "at Position (yanchors)" over and over each time I introduce a new character or change them, and I also want to be able to move them left and right without having them fly off the screens.

There has to be a way to set the default anchors when defining the chars at the start, but I just cannot for the life of me find out how to do it!

Help would be much appreciated!

[Asceai]

Maybe set them when you define the character images?

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image Character Neutral:
  "character_neutral.png"
  yanchor 0.5 ypos 0.75

[yuucie]

YES this is exactly what I spent over an hour looking for. I could kiss you!! Thank you!

[yuucie]

Ah, it worked for when characters appeared, but when I try moving them left it seems their anchors reset again and I have no idea why.

so I have move defined as:

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$ move = MoveTransition(.5)

and when I start my game, the transitions are:

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 show Character Neutral:
        on show:
            xalign .5
            alpha 0.0
            linear 1.0 alpha 1.0
    with easeinleft
    pause .5

which moves in the character from the left, fading him in, and centers him on the screen (he isn't floating above ground due to his default anchors). But when I introduce a new character, I want him to slide to the left to make room for her. So I have:

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show Character Neutral at left with move
        
    show Emily neutral:
        on show:
            xalign 1.0
            alpha 0.0
            linear 1.0 alpha 1.0
            
    with easeinright
    pause .5
    
    Em "Hi!"

However, doing so does move him left, but he flies up to the corner of the screen as well and I have no idea why. I've tested a bit and it seems like the defined left is causing chars to float, but I have no idea how to counter it. Thanks for the help, I'm trying to work it out but..

EDIT: Nevermind, figured it out! Here's the solution for anyone with the same problem:

instead of using left, I just reassigned xalign like so:

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show Character Neutral:
        xalign 0.4

 show Emily neutral:
        on show:
            xalign 1.0
            alpha 0.0
            linear 1.0 alpha 1.0
            
    with easeinright
    pause .5
    
    Em "Hi!"
            

works beautifully :')