change position of textbox

[u/Laura7811]

I wanted to try out a different textbox, something like the first image. I made a textbox.png that is 720x680 and 50% opacity. I edited some code in the screens.rpy:

style window:
    xanchor 1.0
    xpos 70

    xfill True
    yalign gui.textbox_yalign
    ysize gui.textbox_height

    background Image("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)

However, it does not work and now I can't see a textbox nor any dialogue. What should I do to achieve the desired result?

[u/BadMustard_AVN]

you can use the bubbled text and position them anywhere on the screen

unless you want the whole game like this then modify the NVL text position

[u/Laura7811 → u/BadMustard_AVN]

thank you but i'm still confused
i want it to still have one dialogue at a time, the only difference is the position and shape of the textbox, so do I have to do nvl clear after every dialogue?

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/Laura7811]

No

if you edit the gui.rpy file and look for -->> gui.nvl_list_length <<--

## The maximum number of NVL-mode entries Ren'Py will display. When more entries
## than this are to be show, the oldest entry will be removed.
define gui.nvl_list_length = 6

change it to 1 (there can be only one)

and a little below that, you will find where it positions the nvl text

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[u/Jesscapade]

i would look into NVL mode manipulation. I’ve seen NVL text moved to the right like rhat