image nodding

[dott.Piergiorgio]

I'm not 100% sure if I can explain well my coding problem:

I want the image of the char doing a small traslation down then back up, representing an acknowledge nodding (also, a more marked traslation down/up representing a bowing) but my tests fails, with sylvie (the most abused actress in Ren'py history, perhaps...) remaining firm, but the traslation along X axis works as advertised in documentation.

thing that is,

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transform left_to_right:
    xalign 0.0
    linear 2.0 yalign 1.0
    repeat

works, but the simple reverting:

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transform left_to_right:
    yalign 0.0
    linear 0.1 xalign 1.0
    repeat

don't work.. I'm missing something ?

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

[Alex]

Mmm, try

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image test_im = "eileen_vhappy.png"
define e = Character('Eileen', color="#c8ffc8")

transform nod:
    yoffset 0
    linear 0.2 yoffset 50
    linear 0.2 yoffset 0

# The game starts here.
label start:
    show test_im
    "ok?"
    show test_im at nod
    e "yes."
    "?"

(Eileen is more willing, lol).

[SundownKid]

You have "xalign" there instead of "yalign". Perhaps that typo is causing the issue?

I would probably do something like:

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transform bow:
   ease 0.5 yalign 1.1
   ease 0.5 yalign 1.0

[dott.Piergiorgio]

Thanks to both of you; alex's solution works (albeit for me is a "bow", but it's a case of YMMV) but that sundownkid's don't work (yea, there was a typo in my post, but I wasn't cut'n pasting, but working by hand) and I'm mulling on this work/don't work... I feel that the issue lies in yalign.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

[meiri]

So, to clarify, if I need an image to go offscreen in x or y direction, I have to use yoffset or xoffset? Negative values for xalign/yalign or xpos/ypos will not work?

[Alex]

You can use different positional properties to place your images onscreen - http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pro ... properties
xoffset and yoffset are just set the distance in pixels where the image should be moved from it's current position.