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So I am not having any luck getting my characters to show up properly. I am trying to show 2 separate characters having a conversation. One on the left and one on the right.
I'm trying to keep it simple and use

(Example)
Show brit at right
Show Chad at left

But the problem is they just keep being placed on one another.
I have tried
xalign
yalign
But they still show up stacked on top of each other.

Trying to keep it simple and get it to work without having to just edit the characters into the position I want. I'm sure it would work but that would require me to make multiple copies of the same character for each position on screen. Have searched the boards to find the answer but no luck. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

There are a few possibilities so it's a bit hard to determine at the moment. Have you declared your own transforms called left and right for instance (that'd override the default settings)? How are the images declared? What are the images sizes vs screen size?

I would assume your images have a lot of transparent space either side?

Perhaps a zealous trim of your files will fix it for you.

The character dimensions are the same size as my screen, which is 1920 x 1080. Most are around 50 kb's. I just drew them out the same size as my screen and then removed them the alpha layer (think that's what's it's called, not to familiar with the terms) and saved as png. Is there a more correct way to do it?
I'll try making them smaller and see of that works though.
Oh also I just defined them the simplest way I know.
define example = "example.png"
If resizing them doesn't work I'll look into my own transitions.
Thank you for the help

Images are by default, aligned to the bottom left.

The default transform 'at left' uses this corner of the image.
The default transform 'at right', uses the bottom right corner.

If your images are the same size as the screen, no repositioning can take place by the default methods because they're already as far left/right as they can go.

Alright. I fixed it. You were both right. Had to resize my canvas to get rid of the excess space. Worked just fine after that.
Thank you both again for the help!