How do I place the text of a say statement at an arbitrary location

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How do I place the text of a say statement at an arbitrary location

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I'd like to know how to place the text of a say statement at a location of my choosing; I also want to learn how to do the same with names. I don't want to deal with "padding" and all that jazz; I just want to know how to place it and how I could make the bounding box an arbitrary size as well, with the text directly touching the edges.

I literally have no idea how to do this, so I've been using Fixed to display text since that's easier to arbitrarily place. However, I can't do a letter-by-letter display of text with a Fixed. Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: How do I place the text of a say statement at an arbitrary location

#2 Post by namastaii »

In screens.rpy, you'll find the styles for window, name_box, say_label etc
You can change and add things there

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