[SOLVED] Sprites changes place on its own

[chesarty]

So, I'm at a scene where I need the sprite to disappear for one frame, since I have a cutscene there.

show atticus casual happy at bounce
A "Thank you so, so much, %(player_name)s!"
hide atticus casual happy
#scene building shelf
"You help Atticus to build the figurine shelf. It's definitely easier with two people - you manage to mount the shelf into the wall and Atticus places all of his figurines in."
show atticus casual happy at bounce
A "Yay yay yay! It looks so cute! Thank you!"

However, when I replace the sprite after the cutscene, it suddenly jumps to the top left of the screen.

Why is that & is there an easy way to fix it? I tried looking into sprite positioning but didn't understand what I was supposed to do and where to place the code lmao.

[chesarty]

Update; instead of using the hide command I never replaced the sprite, and instead just placed the background on top of the sprite. It still changes its place.

[trooper6]

What is bounce? May we see the code for that?

[chesarty]

What is bounce? May we see the code for that?

Basically just a transformation where the sprite bounces a bit when it changes. Here's the code;

transform bounce:
pause .15
yoffset 0
easein .175 yoffset -10
easeout .175 yoffset 0
easein .175 yoffset -4
easeout .175 yoffset 0
yoffset 0
pass

It makes no difference, though. I already tried it with and without the bounce, it jumps into the top left corner either way.

[trooper6]

Note: you should put code inside of [ code][ /code] tags to preserve the spacing. (Take out the extra space).

Do you do the bounce every time a sprite speaks?

For the moment try

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show atticus casual happy at right

without the bounce, but with a position specified. See what happens when you do that.

[chesarty]

Note: you should put code inside of [ code][ /code] tags to preserve the spacing. (Take out the extra space).

Do you do the bounce every time a sprite speaks?

For the moment try

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show atticus casual happy at right

without the bounce, but with a position specified. See what happens when you do that.

I used "at center" at the end of the command and I managed to place it correctly. Still kind of sad I can't add the bounce with that, though. I don't use it every single time, usually just when Atticus gets happy since he's a very "bouncy" character.

[trooper6]

You can do both

try

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show atticus casual happy at center, bounce

Note: I rewrote your transform to look like this because I didn't see what the pass was doing there:

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transform bounce:
    pause .15
    yoffset 0
    easein .175 yoffset -10
    easeout .175 yoffset 0
    easein .175 yoffset -4
    easeout .175 yoffset 0
    yoffset 0

And one more note.

For your text interpolation you can use RenPy's interpolation like so:

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A "Thank you so, so much, [player_name]"

And last note:
You should not name Atticus "A", you should name him "a". It is Python convention to name variables with lowercase, reserving uppercase for class definitions.

[chesarty]

You can do both

try

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show atticus casual happy at center, bounce

Note: I rewrote your transform to look like this because I didn't see what the pass was doing there:

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transform bounce:
    pause .15
    yoffset 0
    easein .175 yoffset -10
    easeout .175 yoffset 0
    easein .175 yoffset -4
    easeout .175 yoffset 0
    yoffset 0

And one more note.

For your text interpolation you can use RenPy's interpolation like so:

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A "Thank you so, so much, [player_name]"

And last note:
You should not name Atticus "A", you should name him "a". It is Python convention to name variables with lowercase, reserving uppercase for class definitions.

Thanks! I added the "pass" at the end of my bounce since on another forum post I read that you ca make it stop by doing that lol. + I have multiple characters whose names start with A so I'm using capital A for Atticus and a for Alan. So far i hasn't given me any sort of issues and I'm 1000 lines into the code so I doubt I'll be changing it up anytime soom.