ATL positioning question

[akemicchi]

I'm still learning how to use ATL, but I'm having some positioning issues. If someone could help me out and explain what I'm doing wrong, I'd really appreciate it! :)

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    transform gag_pos:
        zoom 0.5 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.2

This works fine when the image is just a simple line like:

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image gag_event3 = "gag_event3.PNG"

As you can see here, it's positioned where I want it to be: in the center, a little closer to the top.

I show the images like

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show gag_event3 at gag_pos

But when I use this code and apply the transform on it, the xalign doesn't position it in the center. yalign works though?

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[code]image gag_event2:
    contains:
        "gag_event2_background.PNG" # The background image. Static.
    contains:
        "gag_event2_characters.PNG" # The characters. They shake.
        choice:
            xoffset 2 yoffset 2
        choice:
            xoffset 2 yoffset -2
        choice:
            xoffset -2 yoffset 2
        choice:
            xoffset -2 yoffset -2
        choice:
            xoffset 1 yoffset 1
        choice:
            xoffset 1 yoffset -1
        choice:
            xoffset -1 yoffset 1
        choice:
            xoffset -1 yoffset -1
        pause 0.1
        repeat
    contains:
        "gag_event2_vein1.PNG" # Vein is animated. Changes every 0.5 seconds.
        pause 0.5
        "gag_event2_vein2.PNG"
        pause 0.5
        repeat

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It might be important to mention that the images are twice their size and I'm only resizing them with ATL. I could mess around with xpos to get it where I want to, make multiple images and show them all individually, or just save the images at window size. It's not that big of a deal. But I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong so I can avoid it. Am I using contain right? What's causing it to move to the right like that? Weird things happen when I change xanchor and yanchor, too. Setting xanchor and yanchor to 0.1, 0.1 positions the image offscreen at the bottom right; xanchor at 1.0 and yanchor at 1.0 puts it at xanchor 0.0 xpos 0.0, yanchor 0.5 ypos 1.0. I have no idea what's making it do that.

Thanks so much for your time!