Define a transition based on device variant?

[Jackkel Dragon]

I couldn't find an answer to this myself or in any of the places I looked, so I figured I'd ask here: Is there a way to have transforms defined differently based on which type of device a game is being played on? (Similar to how some screen language can be modified based on which device the game is on.)

Something I tried which may help show what I mean:

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init -20:

    transform left:
        if not renpy.variant("small"): # normal devices
            xalign 0.0
            yalign 1.0
        else: # mobile phones
            xalign -0.25
            yalign 1.0

[Remix]

As you cannot programmatically create an ATL transform and cannot use conditional block logic within an ATL transform the options are pretty limited.

If you are just tweaking values, you can wrap those in parenthesis and do logic in there:

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transform variable_values_transform():
    xpos (100 if not renpy.variant("small") else 300)
    ypos (400 if not renpy.variant("small") else 100)

I think that is about all you can get away with though...

[Jackkel Dragon]

That seems to work for me, thanks! Luckily, I think I only need to change the position/alignment values based on the device type. I'm not really familiar with the syntax used, but at least it seems to work the way I needed it to.

[Imperf3kt]

The way I do it is make different transforms, and then use the variant check, where tha transform is applied.
Also has its limits, but is another possible way to do it.

[PyTom]

renpy.variant should be defined in an init block, and an init block can run Ren'Py. So you should be able to do:

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init:
    if not renpy.variant("small"): # normal devices

        transform left:
            xalign 0.0
            yalign 1.0

    else: # mobile phones

        transform left:
            xalign -0.25
            yalign 1.0

[Jackkel Dragon]

That kind of syntax looks more familiar to me, so I might try that one. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for, so thanks for the help!