How to add rotation to dialogue text?[SOLVED]

[ReDZiX]

Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but I've been trying for hours and I can't find a solution.

For our game we want to use a stylish dialogue box similar to the one used in Persona 5, with the text slightly inclined to the left. So I'm trying to add some rotation properties to the dialogue text. The only way I've found to do that is to use rotate transform property, so:

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transform txt_rotate(g): 
    rotate g #Rotate displayable by g angle
    
screen say(who, what):
    # Not pasting all the contents of say screen to save space
    
    window:
            text what id "what" at txt_rotate(-4) 
            #Text should be displayed slightly inclined to the left.

This worked perfectly fine in a custom test screen, but in the say screen, the text doesn't appear anywhere. I'm guessing the transform is somehow nulling the default style properties of text but, I thought style and transform where applied independently? Am I doing this the wrong way?

[irredeemable]

I just tried your code and it worked without issue. Did you maybe make some other changes to the say screen, accidental or otherwise?

[irredeemable]

I happened to be testing something else with your code still in and realized that the text gets more deformed the longer it is--I had only tested with single words. I found a work-around for it, though, try adding:

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transform_anchor True yanchor 0

as the first line of your transform.

[ReDZiX]

I happened to be testing something else with your code still in and realized that the text gets more deformed the longer it is--I had only tested with single words. I found a work-around for it, though, try adding:

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transform_anchor True yanchor 0

as the first line of your transform.

Just as you said the problem happened with large amounts of text, I later on re-read the documentation and realized I had to set xanchor and yanchor to 0.5 or else the position would randomly change depending on the size of text; that seemed to fix it, but I'll be sure to test your variant too, seems better.

Thanks a lot!