Affect ypos in image definition?

[StValentines]

I'm still a beginner, and the positioning in this game has been giving me hell lately.

I use a series of defined placement transforms to place my characters, which includes a zoom transform so I can get them the right size while allowing them to be bigger so they can look good up close as well. I recently ironed out all the wrinkles and it's working great. Example:

transform fifty:
xalign 0.50
ypos 1.945
yanchor 1.0
zoom 0.56

But a couple sprites are inexplicably taller than they're supposed to be. It's obvious when they're placed next to other characters, despite all onscreen sprites having the exact same ypositioning, yanchoring, and zoom applied. I've looked at the original image and all the coding involved, can't for the life of me figure out why this is. But that's fine, I can just change the starting point of the image from the definition, right?

Well that works fine with the zoom. I just put it into the image definition, and it worked fine.

image kacy_body:
"kacy_spBODY.png"
zoom 0.97

layeredimage kacy:

always:
"kacy_body"

That zoom seems to stack with the zoom in my positioning code, so it makes the image that much smaller when it's displayed in-game. But I've tried also using ypositioning or yanchoring to affect its height, and that hasn't worked. I've tried it so many different ways, even deleting the zoom and putting a ypos adjustment in its place. Any suggestions?

[Per K Grok]

I'm still a beginner, and the positioning in this game has been giving me hell lately.

I use a series of defined placement transforms to place my characters, which includes a zoom transform so I can get them the right size while allowing them to be bigger so they can look good up close as well. I recently ironed out all the wrinkles and it's working great. Example:

transform fifty:
xalign 0.50
ypos 1.945
yanchor 1.0
zoom 0.56

But a couple sprites are inexplicably taller than they're supposed to be. It's obvious when they're placed next to other characters, despite all onscreen sprites having the exact same ypositioning, yanchoring, and zoom applied. I've looked at the original image and all the coding involved, can't for the life of me figure out why this is. But that's fine, I can just change the starting point of the image from the definition, right?

Well that works fine with the zoom. I just put it into the image definition, and it worked fine.

image kacy_body:
"kacy_spBODY.png"
zoom 0.97

layeredimage kacy:

always:
"kacy_body"

That zoom seems to stack with the zoom in my positioning code, so it makes the image that much smaller when it's displayed in-game. But I've tried also using ypositioning or yanchoring to affect its height, and that hasn't worked. I've tried it so many different ways, even deleting the zoom and putting a ypos adjustment in its place. Any suggestions?

ypos sets the image position in the vertical position in number of pixels from the top edge of the game screen, provided that you set the value as an integer (i.e. 200) not as a float (i.e. 1.945).

You can not divide a pixel.

If you use a float ypos seems to act like yalign.

If you want to have your images placed at a certain height, set ypos to that number of pixels from the top. You don't need yanchor.