Out of Letters

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Out of Letters

#1 Post by Cybeat »

Let me know if I'm in the wrong forum. Anyway,

I'm out of Letters like this:
$ a = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
$ b = Character('', color="#c8c8ff")
$ c= Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
$ d = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
$ e = Character('', color="#c8c8ff")
$ f = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")

When I get to z = Character, how do I add more characters?
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Re: Out of Letters

#2 Post by Jake »

Cybeat wrote:Let me know if I'm in the wrong forum.
This looks like a Ren'Py question to me, and thus should probably be in the Ren'Py subforum, since Ren'Py and Lemmasoft are separate.
Cybeat wrote:When I get to z = Character, how do I add more characters?
Anyway, presuming that it is - the answer is that you're not limited to a single letter for character names - you can call them more or less anything you like, so long as it doesn't have spaces in. So one strategy would be to carry on in the same fashion:

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$ z = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
$ aa = Character('', color="#c8c8ff")
$ ab = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
...
but probably a better one, in the long run, would be to give them descriptive names in the first place so you can readily tell them apart:

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$ eva = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
$ joshua = Character('', color="#c8c8ff")
$ magdalen = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
...
even if those are just colours:

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$ grey-green = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
$ grey-blue = Character('', color="#c8c8ff")
$ grey-red = Character('', color="#ffc8c8")
...


The reason a lot of people will use a single character - or two characters - is just that you're going to be typing them a lot when you write dialogue for those characters, so it's convenient to abbreviate it to save yourself typing. So instead of full names, you might still be better off with something like:

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$ ev = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
$ jo = Character('', color="#c8c8ff")
$ ma = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
...
or

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$ eva = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
$ josh = Character('', color="#c8c8ff")
$ mag = Character('', color="#c8ffc8")
...
or something.
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Re: Out of Letters

#3 Post by Cybeat »

Thanks for the help. BTW, what's Lemmasoft?
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Re: Out of Letters

#4 Post by Jake »

Cybeat wrote:Thanks for the help. BTW, what's Lemmasoft?
Lemma Soft is Blue Lemma's game development name/site/identity; this forum, as the tagline goes, is for support issues with Lemma Soft titles.

Blue Lemma graciously gives over part of his forum for Ren'Py and for general game-development discussion, which is why you'll have been directed here for Ren'Py help. ;-)
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