Main character side images

[emmeeeh]

I am new to ren'py and I'm working on a free otome game all by myself and I would very much appreciate any help -- my problem is, I want to make it so when the heroine is speaking it shows a side image on the textbox - which I've looked up and seen the code for this but every single code I've used so far either doesn't work for me or has me writing

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define mc = character (...)

for each expression which changes the heroine's name (i want to leave the name customizable, aka for the player to decide) and I don't know where to look for an answer.

Does anyone have any clue on how to achieve the side images without modifying the character's name?

[Divona]

Did you look up Ren'Py documentation on Side Image?

For the character name, if I understand it correctly, you want a player to be able to enter the name themselves? You can set a variable for a character name and use that. Character name and a name tag for a character is a complete different thing.

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default mc_name = " "

define mc = Character("[mc_name]", image="main_character")

image main_character neutral = "mc_neutral.png"
image main_character smile = "mc_smile.png"

image side main_character neutral = "mc_side_neutral.png"
image side main_character smile = "mc_side_smile.png"

label start:

    show main_character neutral

    python:
        mc_name = renpy.input("What is my name?")
        mc_name = povname.strip()

    mc smile "Oh right! My name is [mc_name]!"
    mc neutral "How did I forget that?"

    return

[emmeeeh]

Did you look up Ren'Py documentation on Side Image?

For the character name, if I understand it correctly, you want a player to be able to enter the name themselves? You can set a variable for a character name and use that. Character name and a name tag for a character is a complete different thing.

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default mc_name = " "

define mc = Character("[mc_name]", image="main_character")

image main_character neutral = "mc_neutral.png"
image main_character smile = "mc_smile.png"

image side main_character neutral = "mc_side_neutral.png"
image side main_character smile = "mc_side_smile.png"

label start:

    show main_character neutral

    python:
        mc_name = renpy.input("What is my name?")
        mc_name = povname.strip()

    mc smile "Oh right! My name is [mc_name]!"
    mc neutral "How did I forget that?"

    return

Ahhh, bless you! I don't exactly know what I did but I managed to make it work!

Thank you so much!