Spaces in dynamic characters?

[Dizzydude]

If I wanted to have a dynamic character name with two words in it, how would it work?
I'm getting an error as I try what is basically this:

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define t = DynamicCharacter('Ms. Teacher', color="#4DB8DB")

label start:
$ Ms. Teacher = "???"

It seems like ren'py is registering it as "Ms" and only "Ms"?

[mjshi]

A general rule of thumb, variables can't have spaces/periods (unless you're doing a parent/child variable) or they'll throw up an error.

Try:

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define t = DynamicCharacter("msteacher", color="#4DB8DB")

init:
    $ msteacher = "Ms. Teacher"

label start:
    $ msteacher = "???"

Also, if you're referencing a variable, it should be in double quotes "", not single ''.

Hope this helped ^_^

[philat]

You don't really need to use Dynamic Character anymore, as far as I know. The following will work perfectly fine.

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define t = Character("[tname]", color="#4DB8DB")

init:
    $ tname = "???"

label start:
    t "This will show the name as ???"
    $ tname = "Ms. Teacher"
    t "This will show the name as Ms. Teacher."

It does the same thing as DynamicCharacter, but is easier to read (imo) and more consistent with other characters, so I prefer doing it this way.

ETA: There is no difference between double and single quotes in python, except that it may be easier to use one or the other to avoid escaping characters.

[Dizzydude]

Ah. Thank you both!