Random dialogue from an ever changing file?

[xlaits]

So, I'm working on a little project that essentially asks what kind of quote you want to hear, then spouts a random one from that topic to the screen.

I want to do this in a way that's easily managable, so I've opted to have an external file, essentially plaintext, that has all the quotes for one topic in it. This way, I can quickly and easily add new quotes.

However, since this file will never had a definite number of quotes, and some quotes MAY have to have multiple lines and even other dialog boxes, I am unsure how exactly to do this. Can anyone help me?

[Ocelot]

Well, you can have additional rpy file, which would work as your external file with the addition on auto-loading and aiuto-parsing.
To solve multiple lines problem, add some structure to a file and make single quote a collection of lines:

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define some_quotes = [
    # Each quote is a tuple (character to say quote, list of sentenses)
    ( some_character, [
        'Line 1',
        'Line 2'
    ]),
    ( 'some name', [
        'Only line'
    ]),
]

# Usage (in another file):
init python:
    def inspirational_quote():
        char, lines = renpy.random.choice(some_quotes)
        for line in lines:
            char(line)

label quote:
    'Here is your inspirational quote for the day:'
    $ inspirational_quote()
    return

[xlaits]

Well, you can have additional rpy file, which would work as your external file with the addition on auto-loading and aiuto-parsing.
To solve multiple lines problem, add some structure to a file and make single quote a collection of lines:

Code: Select all

define some_quotes = [
    # Each quote is a tuple (character to say quote, list of sentenses)
    ( some_character, [
        'Line 1',
        'Line 2'
    ]),
    ( 'some name', [
        'Only line'
    ]),
]

# Usage (in another file):
init python:
    def inspirational_quote():
        char, lines = renpy.random.choice(some_quotes)
        for line in lines:
            char(line)

label quote:
    'Here is your inspirational quote for the day:'
    $ inspirational_quote()
    return

I feel like this might be the solution I was looking for! It was a lot simpler than I thought it to be. Let me try a few things out and see what works.

EDIT:
I just noticed that this does not have ANY ability to show new character images.