Code for defining custom character name not working

[ljnicolson]

So I've tried doing this several ways and checked a bunch of other threats on this problem, but I can't find anyone having the same problem as me. I'm trying to define a the main character so their name will appear, but I want the player to be able to choose their name, and the code just doesn't seem to want to work.
When I try this code:

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    $ aa = DynamicCharacter("player_name", color="#58D3F7", show_two_window=True)

I get an error message that says

File "game/script.rpy", line 8: Line is indented, but the preceding image statement statement does not expect a block. Please check this line's indentation.
$ aa = DynamicCharacter("player_name", color="#58D3F7", show_two_window=True)

And when I use this code:

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define aa = DynamicCharacter("player_name", color="#58D3F7", show_two_window=True)

This is the error message I get

File "game/script.rpy", line 44, in script
p "Pleased to meet you, [player name]!"
KeyError: u'player name'

This is what my script looks like so far

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# the story starts here
label start:

# The phrase in the brackets is the text that the game will display to prompt
# the player to enter the name they've chosen.

    $ player_name = renpy.input("What is your name?")

    $ player_name = player_name.strip()
# The .strip() instruction removes any extra spaces the player may have typed by accident.

#  If the player can't be bothered to choose a name, then we
#  choose a suitable one for them:
    if player_name == "":
        $ player_name="Avis"
 
# Now the other characters in the game can greet the player.
 
    e "Pleased to meet you, [player_name]!"

Any help would be much appreciated!

[Kate]

That is a really complicated way of doing that

You just want the player to be able to input a name, right? That's fairly simple, I've been using this:

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k "Welcome!"

k "Prepare to enter the game!"

k "First, I need your name. That way, I know what to call you!"


$ p = renpy.input ("My name is", "", length=20,)
if p == "":
    $ p = "Alex"

# [p] is how you address the character in a sentence.
# p is the character's voice.

k "Very good, [p]!"

And I've defined p as this above where you declare images and characters:

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define p = Character('[p]', color="#c8ffc8")

I hope this helps. Anytime you want to address the character, you use [p] and it will input their name. For the character's speaking dialogue, just use p "blah blah" for renpy.

[ljnicolson]

Thank you so much!

Okay, so I tried that, and this time it actually loaded the game, but it's still causing problems.

One is that if I input a name, it resets to the title screen without going to the next part of the script. If I click through and it uses the default name, no trouble.

The other is a stylistic thing, and when I click through with the default name, when the character speaks (defined as [p]) the show_two_window=True code doesn't work and their name shows up in the one box. Do you know of a work around for that or should I just set them all to not be in two windows?

[78909087]

Hello there, I've actually got a strange way (that works for me, the way I want it to) if you would like to try that?
First: Define the character before the game.
define me = DynamicCharacter("povname", color=(192, 64, 64, 255))
(You can change the colour, and set 'me' to whatever you would like to use to 'call' the character for speech purposes.)

Second: To get the user to then choose their name, use this line
$ povname = renpy.input("What is your name?") or "Eveline"
^ saying 'or "Eveline"' will automatically set the name to Eveline if they hit Enter without entering a name.

Then, to call the character in text, use:
%(povname)s

EG.
gm "Now, now, I know my son is a little hard to live with, but he loves you, %(povname)s..."
will be
gm "Now, now, I know my son is a little hard to live with, but he loves you, Eveline..."

(Or whatever the person entered as their name.)

[ljnicolson]

And that one worked! Thank you so much!

[78909087]

You're welcome
I'm glad I could be of assistance.

[Akuni]

Can I put a bump on this thread? I didn't want to start a new topic:

Basically, I've been trying to change the colour of one of my Characters. I've tried both codes, but it still always comes out as white?

Edit: Should've included the actual line of code.





But when I make them normal characters the colour changes apply. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or :c

[yuucie]

Can I put a bump on this thread? I didn't want to start a new topic:

Basically, I've been trying to change the colour of one of my Characters. I've tried both codes, but it still always comes out as white?

Edit: Should've included the actual line of code.





But when I make them normal characters the colour changes apply. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or :c

You should put your code in [ code ] [ /code ], since it's hard to see.

You're defining the wrong thing. In your definition, you defined your character names as 'Tet'. Your flag for his name then should be

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$ Tet = "Tet"

but you wrote

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$ T = "Tet"

which means you created a new variable over-riding your character's variable.

[Akuni]

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define Tet = DynamicCharacter('Tet', color="#0B610B")
define Lu = Character('Lu', color="#0B610B")


label start:
    
    "It's already our one year anniversary..." 
    "And I have no idea what I'm going to do."
    
    $ Tet = "Tet" 

    Tet "Darn, why didn't I check my calendar earlier?"
    Tet "If she finds out I almost forgot about our plans she'll never let me forget it."
    Tet "Or worse, she'll be disappointed..."
    Tet "Oh wait, what am I doing? I should just use the Internet."
    
    Tet "There's so much on this site..."
    Tet "What could I do to make our anniversary special?"
    Tet "I better pick something easy."

I tried changing it like you said but the character's name colour still appears white :c Could there be another problem? Or way for solving this? Hopefully its easier to see where I'm going wrong now >.<

[yuucie]

It's still over-riding your code. There's two kinds of variables here, the "Tet" variable that defines his in-game name, and the "Tet" variable that you use for dialogue. Previously you had "T" variable for dialogue and "Tet" variable for his in-game name, but now you changed them both to be the same and renpy is confused.

Try this instead:

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define Tet = DynamicCharacter('Tet_Name', color="#0B610B")
define Lu = Character('Lu_Name', color="#0B610B")


label start:
   
    "It's already our one year anniversary..."
    "And I have no idea what I'm going to do."

    $ Tet_Name = "Tet" 

    Tet "Darn, why didn't I check my calendar earlier?"

    

[Akuni]

Oh my gosh~ works like a charm now. Thanks for that bit of info yuucie~!! Appreciate it (*＾▽＾)／･*:.｡.♥.｡.:*･