IF commands

[the stampede]

Hi everyone. I only downloaded the software yesterday but I'm intrigued!! hehe. I was wondering: is it possible to have a value (eg: 'strength') and then have the game refrence that value and branch a conversation accordingly? Just as an eample: if strength = 1 then "the bolder dosent move", if strength > 1 "you move the boulder". I have searched the helpfiles and I cant seem to get this to work. Can anyone help?

[denzil]

Yes, it's possible. You can store value this way (strength - the name of the value is called variable):

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$ strength = 1

And if you want to compare the variable to some value you do it:

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if strength < 10:
	"You are weak."
if strength == 10:
	"You are strong"
if strength > 10:
	"You are very strong"

Note that for assigning value to variable ONE equal sign is used but for testing if variable is equal to some value TWO equal signs are used.
You can find out more here: http://renpy.org/

[Hime]

Oh and, if you want to continue the story only if the character is strong enough to move the border and thus for example enter a cave, or something alike, you could do something like...

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   if strenght < 10:
      "You aren't strong enough to move the boulder."
   if strenght == 10:
      "Using all of your strenght, you push the boulder aside."
      jump cave
   if strenght > 10:
      "You push the boulder aside with ease."
      jump cave

I don't know if this is the absolutely wisest thing to do since I'm quite much a Ren'Py newbie myself, but at least it works... I think. And then you continue the story in the label "cave":

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label cave:
   "The cave is very dark and quite scary."
   "And then blah blah blah, blah blah blah..."

[the stampede]

Thanks you two but I have tried this already and I keep getting the error message:

if statement expects a non-empty block.

Do you have any idea why?

[J13]

I've come across that one lots before. It might be an indentation problem, if you look at the line it mentions in the traceback it will probably look something like this

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    if strength > 1:
    jump here

when it should look like this

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    if strength > 1:
        jump here

[Counter Arts]

If you make an if statement, you need to put something in it. Otherwise it throws that error at you.

[the stampede]

Hehe, thanks j13, it was the indent. It now alows me to compile it and play the game but when I play throught to that point I get the same error message??