Hello everyone and sorry for the long hiatus! I had some personal obligations to tend to and then I had a bit of a health scare but I think I'm out of the woods now. Before all that happened though I started working on a small update that I finally had time to complete today. Sweet!

With this update comes two new formatting options, one bigger than the other. First let's talk about the smaller one...

From now on, all player/robot/ability/item/object/shop sprites will take an optional "position" argument at the end of their formatting code that will allow you to shift them horizontally or vertically by X or Y number of pixels. It's a small change but when setting up scenes it'll allow you to arrange your sprites more dynamically.

Example Code

Without relative positioning:




[ability:left:01]{quick-strike} [robot:left:victory]{rhythm} [robot:left:slide]{disco}

With relative positioning:




[ability:left:01:-36,0]{quick-strike} [robot:left:victory:12,12]{rhythm} [robot:left:slide:50,0]{disco}

It's pretty straight-forward once you take a look at the code, but let me know if you have any questions. The only thing to note is that the "X" co-ordinate is relative to which way your sprite is facing. Positive values move the sprite forward and negative ones move them backwards. The "Y" position is the same regardless (positive is up and negative is down).

This one requires a lot of explanation that I don't have time for at the moment, so instead I'll just show you an example. Feel free to copy/paste the example code(s) at the bottom and modify to fit your needs and don't forget you can use the new "Preview Thread Formatting" button to test as you go.

The main things to note are:
- The entire thing must be wrapped in "comic-layout" tags
- Each panel must be wrapped in "comic-panel" tags
- The scene must have background and foreground wrappers
- An "intro" is nice but not mandatory, sets up scenes nicely
- The "quote" blocks must have the sprites first and NOT inside any other tag
- The "quote" blocks must have the text next and it MUST be wrapped in a type-span
- It doesn't look/work great with super-long text, so try to keep your dialogue short and sweet (which is a good writing technique anyway when creating webcomics)
- The layout code, in general, is a bit finicky so don't say I didn't warn you! You can experiment but if what you're trying doesn't work it might be by-design so please don't get mad :P

Okay that's it! Sorry if I broke anything, I'll do my best to fix it ASAP, and please let me know if you have any questions. I'll try to get back into the groove of things once things settle down in my personal life, and sorry again for going MIA for a while. Peace!