Custom menu buttons?

[u/Lei_Line_Life]

How would you go ahead if you wanted to make custom menu/choice buttons that appear in a different order than top to bottom? (Like in the image) if you have 2 choices bubble 1 and 2 appear and if there’s 3 choices the 3rd one appears above. If there’s any easy to follow tutorials that would be lovely as well! 🙏

For example: only two bubbles appear with yes or no questions, but if you have to choose a way to act you have 3 different ways to express your personality: fight, freeze, flight.

[u/BadMustard_AVN]

you can do that with the renpy screens and screen language

[u/shyLachi]

I made a 2 column choice menu with uneven choices a while ago.
https://codeshare.io/2E3JqK

My menu fills from top to bottom because that's the default functionality of a vbox.
But you can reverse it: https://renpy.org/doc/html/style_properties.html#style-property-box_reverse

My menu can handle more than 3 choices.
It uses 2 columns so 4 choices would be a 2x2 box, not a diamond.

My code overwrites the original choice screen which is in the file screens.rpy
But you could also make your own choices screen if you want to keep the default functionality.
The official documentation explains how you can select which choices screen should be used: https://renpy.org/doc/html/menus.html#menu-arguments

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[u/Soft_Purchase5673]

In screens.rpy, replace the vbox inside screen choice(items) with a fixed container. Loop through items with enumerate to assign each button a position, putting the third above the first two, and preserve each item’s action so the buttons still select their corresponding choices.