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I've seen two examples of defining characters in Renpy.

Why would you want to use one over the other? And why the use of 'quotes' versus "quotation marks"?

Any advice appreciated, thank you!



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There isn't any functional difference here.

The color property is an alias to who_color, which is the color of the name of the character that is speaking. So there's no difference there.

Python allows a string to be introduced with single or double quotes, as long as you're consistent. That lets you avoid escaping in some circumstances, since you can just use the other string type:



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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

When you've defined a character, how do you retrieve its color information?

I've tried


But Renpy says "AttributeError: 'ADVCharacter' obejct has no attribute 'color'"

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Flash To Ren'Py Exporter
See the Cookbook thread

You don't. You'd have to store it yourself if you want to get it back again. The internals of Character, with some minor exceptions, are opaque - so I can change them in the future.

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

OK. I've made some wrapper functions for my character stable, so it's not a problem.

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Flash To Ren'Py Exporter
See the Cookbook thread

That's the right way to do it, as it means that your code doesn't depend on Ren'Py internals. (And at the same time, I don't have to expose a huger public API.)

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

Thank you, PyTom! That helped clear things up.

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