[SOLVED] Conditional "say" screen position changes

[Chiligoat]

Hey everyone!
Hopefully an easy one: I want to change the place where the say screen appears (gui.textbox_yalign, and the gui.dialogue.xpos/ypos), depending on the speaker. For the protagonist, always up top (0). For anyone else, at the bottom (1.0).

But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make Ren'py grab a variable (preferably just the single letter character-speaking/"who" variable?) and where to put that kind of check? I tried a couple of if conditions in the gui but couldn't make anything work. Is it because they're using a hard "define" instead of a "$"? Am I going about this the wrong way and should just make two separate new styles to try and append?

[hell_oh_world]

Hey everyone!
Hopefully an easy one: I want to change the place where the say screen appears (gui.textbox_yalign, and the gui.dialogue.xpos/ypos), depending on the speaker. For the protagonist, always up top (0). For anyone else, at the bottom (1.0).

But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make Ren'py grab a variable (preferably just the single letter character-speaking/"who" variable?) and where to put that kind of check? I tried a couple of if conditions in the gui but couldn't make anything work. Is it because they're using a hard "define" instead of a "$"? Am I going about this the wrong way and should just make two separate new styles to try and append?

I haven't tried this, but this might work:

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define pro = Character("Protagonist", what_ypos=0.0)

[philat]

Yeah, I'd prob use styles passed to a character rather than a check in the screen (although the latter is possible).

https://renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue.html#Character

Scroll down to Styling Text and Windows.

[Chiligoat]

@philat, @hell_oh_world: Thanks to both of you! A little bit of reading and fiddling later, I got everything to work out exactly the way I want it, and have some basic style understanding now. For others in the same position: I used "window_yalign" and "what_xpos" to adjust what I needed. Cheers!