Aligning text objects to the left

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Aligning text objects to the left

#1 Post by Zeekee »

I've been struggling with trying to figure out how to align multiple lines of text to the left. I've built a terminal emulator for use in my game, but for some reason, whenever I use '\n', the following line of text will appear centered just below the first line. This is the code I have currently for the transform:

transform terminal_text:
#text_align 0.0
xanchor 0.0
xalign 0.0
yalign 0.0
xpos 1070
ypos 160


I'm using the text within the script, too (which is where I'm getting the errors). Here's an excerpt:

show text "'%(command)s!': Invalid command. For a list of \navailable commands, please type 'help'." at terminal_text

I've also tried using text_align, but it doesn't appear to want to work for me. Any help would be much appreciated!
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Re: Aligning text objects to the left

#2 Post by xavimat »

Try text_align 0.0
"show text" centers the text. Maybe you can show your terminal text as a nvl character. Or create a screen.
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