How do I change the text size and position with each scene?

[withtheknife]

I'm going for a more distinct style that wouldn't work with a single kind of text.

Here's an example.



You see how the text changed position and size? How do I do that for each scene?

Thanks :^)

EDIT: An idea came to me. Could I define several characters as "none", determine a different x,y locations for them and use them according to each scene?

So "i sure love not getting hit by an anvil" is a line from character k and "my boy" is from character c, each with their own x,y variables. Would that work? If so, how do I set that up?

I'm not familiar with renpy and I never coded in my entire life :^D

[m_from_space]

EDIT: An idea came to me. Could I define several characters as "none", determine a different x,y locations for them and use them according to each scene?

So "i sure love not getting hit by an anvil" is a line from character k and "my boy" is from character c, each with their own x,y variables. Would that work? If so, how do I set that up?

You don't need any characters for what you're asking for. I mean the text in the first picture doesn't have to be normal dialogue, it can just be a text you display using the "show text" keywords, same for the second picture. Different sized "characters" in your example are just different images that you show for each scene.

I'm not familiar with renpy and I never coded in my entire life :^D

Well, then I advice you to do very basic stuff. Run the Renpy tutorial from the launcher and learn about showing images, showing text or dialogue and the basic game flow. When you never coded anything, just create a new project in Renpy and make some changes to see the effects.

And here is your most important link, the Renpy documentation: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/

[jeffster]

Since Ren'Py 8.1 you can use speech bubbles:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/bubble.html

I didn't try them myself, but maybe the are what you need.

[withtheknife]

EDIT: An idea came to me. Could I define several characters as "none", determine a different x,y locations for them and use them according to each scene?

So "i sure love not getting hit by an anvil" is a line from character k and "my boy" is from character c, each with their own x,y variables. Would that work? If so, how do I set that up?

You don't need any characters for what you're asking for. I mean the text in the first picture doesn't have to be normal dialogue, it can just be a text you display using the "show text" keywords, same for the second picture. Different sized "characters" in your example are just different images that you show for each scene.

I'm not familiar with renpy and I never coded in my entire life :^D

Well, then I advice you to do very basic stuff. Run the Renpy tutorial from the launcher and learn about showing images, showing text or dialogue and the basic game flow. When you never coded anything, just create a new project in Renpy and make some changes to see the effects.

And here is your most important link, the Renpy documentation: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/

Thank you! I've watched a few tutorials and learned the basics, I guess I was being hyperbolic.
I realized that I'll most likely have to use .png images as text, considering what I want to do.

I think I didn't explain it clearly. I won't be using any character sprites, only background images. How, exactly, do I change position and size with "show text"?

And thank you for the reply.

[withtheknife]

Since Ren'Py 8.1 you can use speech bubbles:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/bubble.html

I didn't try them myself, but maybe the are what you need.

Seems useful. Thanks.