[Solved] Dynamic Character Name Not Being Remembered

[yukiko]

In my game I have included an "Ending List" under the Extras menu so that after obtaining endings, players can "replay" the endings again. The "Replay" feature works fine however when I replay the ending, it appears "blank" where the protagonist's name should be. All the other names for the characters appear, though.

I know this is probably because the protagonist's name is changeable but I'm not sure how to code it so that the game remembers the protagonist's name (I'm assuming you use persistent data?)
I would like it to remember the exact name the player chose when they replay the endings.

Is there a way to do this? I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks.

[namastaii]

Hmmmmmm....

could you maybe make it so that the ending you replay doesn't actually 'end' the game? It's an ending but it's just a scene you can replay from a certain point?

[PyTom]

The problem is, you're asking the name each time the player plays through. If you do that, the player name can be different for each playthrough - so it doesn't make sense for it to be remembered.

[yukiko]

Thanks for the replies everyone. It's greatly appreciated! ^^
After much fiddling, I finally got it to work how I wanted it! Yay~! (:
I seemed to have been right about using "persistent data". I thought I somehow had to make it a constant, changing "global" variable.
Just as I intended, the dynamic character name is now being remembered no matter how many times I go off and on the game after saving with a certain name or restart the game with a different name it will "replace" the name that appears in the Ending scene replay! I'm super happy!
I knew it was possible to do, I just needed to figure out the correct method to put it into action.
For anyone who needs to accomplish something similar, I'll just mention kind of what I did here:

Just a small snippet of one of the hot spots for my Ending List screen (under screens.rpy):

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            if persistent.bad_end:
                hotspot (394, 114, 225, 34) action Replay("bad_end",locked=not persistent.Replay_bad_end, scope={'protag': persistent.badend_protag})
            else:
                hotspot (394, 114, 225, 34) action None

The important part that made this work how I wanted it is the line: scope={'protag': persistent.badend_protag}

In my script file (under script.rpy) where I define the persistent variable ($ persistent.badend_protag = protag) + where it should "replay" the ending:

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   ...Ending text here...blah blah...
    $ renpy.end_replay()
    $ persistent.Replay_bad_end = True    
    
    $ persistent.bad_end = True 

    if not _in_replay:
        $ persistent.badend_protag = protag
        $ renpy.block_rollback()
        $ renpy.pause(45.0, hard='True')
        scene black with m2
        with Pause(2.0)
        $ renpy.full_restart()

I hope that helps someone with a similar issue. I'm sorry if it's slightly confusing, I tried my best to explain x_x

[namastaii]

I'm glad you figured it out