Is it possible for the renpy.input dialogue to be said by a character and not the narrator?

[corny]

Pretty much what it says as the title, is this something you can do? As far as I can tell it isn't, and I've messed around with it a lot, but I figured I'd ask before throwing in the towel.

And in case it isn't entirely clear what I mean, I mean having a character's name on here instead of the empty narrator, like they're asking you to enter text

[PyTom]

You can easily fake it.

You can go into screens.rpy to add a character's name as part of the input screen. (You can copy the namebox stuff over from the say screen.)

[corny]

Could you show me how that code should look? I'm using the legacy GUI so I'm not sure if what I'm using is the same as what you're using, and I don't have a full comprehension of how the say screen code works enough to confidently know what needs to be copy pasted or where it needs to go...

[Flakmunky]

Hi,

I'm trying to do the same...

I want one of my characters to ask 'What is your name?' but I'm not sure how to do this.

E.g.
This:

Jenna
What is your name?
[Player types here]

Rather than:

What is your name?
[Player types here]


Thanks in advance.

[william_dickson]

Bump. 5 years later, this is what google brings me to, and it isn't answered. I'd like a character with name and left side image (all of which sorted, and I know how to to the standard input too) to ask for the input instead of the narrator. No solution? I'll google some more ...

[Andredron]

Also interested since bublé came up.... I should check out the info on this...

[Sirifys-Al]

Also interested since bublé came up.... I should check out the info on this...

Have you found a solution yet? I would really like to know!

[m_from_space]

Also interested since bublé came up.... I should check out the info on this...

Have you found a solution yet? I would really like to know!

Normally, the "input" screen is doing the work here. You can find it inside <screens.rpy>. So depending on what you want, you either change that screen, making sure it has a namebox that shows the name of a specific character, or you create your own screen and tell that when using renpy.input()...

I advice you to make your own custom screen, so to not alter the original input screen, whenever you need it. Here is what you can do:

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screen myinput(prompt):
    style_prefix "input"
    window:
        if prompt[0]:
            window:
                style "namebox"
                text prompt[0]
        vbox:
            xanchor gui.dialogue_text_xalign
            xpos gui.dialogue_xpos
            xsize gui.dialogue_width
            ypos gui.dialogue_ypos

            text prompt[1] style "input_prompt"

            # this field with this specific id is necessary for the custom input screen
            input id "input"

label start:
    "So Eileen finally took a chance..."
    # Whenever you use renpy.input for the custom screen, don't just use a prompt string,
    # but a list that contains a name and then the prompt
    $ mc_name = renpy.input(["Eileen", "What is your name?"], screen="myinput")
    e "[mc_name]!??? That's so cute!!"

[Sirifys-Al]

Normally, the "input" screen is doing the work here. You can find it inside <screens.rpy>. So depending on what you want, you either change that screen, making sure it has a namebox that shows the name of a specific character, or you create your own screen and tell that when using renpy.input()...

I advice you to make your own custom screen, so to not alter the original input screen, whenever you need it. Here is what you can do:

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screen myinput(prompt):
    style_prefix "input"
    window:
        if prompt[0]:
            window:
                style "namebox"
                text prompt[0]
        vbox:
            xanchor gui.dialogue_text_xalign
            xpos gui.dialogue_xpos
            xsize gui.dialogue_width
            ypos gui.dialogue_ypos

            text prompt[1] style "input_prompt"

            # this field with this specific id is necessary for the custom input screen
            input id "input"

label start:
    "So Eileen finally took a chance..."
    # Whenever you use renpy.input for the custom screen, don't just use a prompt string,
    # but a list that contains a name and then the prompt
    $ mc_name = renpy.input(["Eileen", "What is your name?"], screen="myinput")
    e "[mc_name]!??? That's so cute!!"

Thank you very much! Somehow I haven't thought that I can just chande the screen...

Edited: oh, one more question: with this code, will I be able to set things like input length, allowed characters and so on?

[m_from_space]

Edited: oh, one more question: with this code, will I be able to set things like input length, allowed characters and so on?

Yes, Renpy handles all of this as part of the renpy.input() function, so you can just pass the usual keyword arguments like "length", "exclude", "mask"... at least I hope it won't raise some exception because the prompt is not just a string anymore. But even then you could change the input screen using a string prompt, which we then just split up into a list or something, extracting the name of the speaking person.

[Sirifys-Al]

Edited: oh, one more question: with this code, will I be able to set things like input length, allowed characters and so on?

Yes, Renpy handles all of this as part of the renpy.input() function, so you can just pass the usual keyword arguments like "length", "exclude", "mask"... at least I hope it won't raise some exception because the prompt is not just a string anymore.

Yeah, me too...

[m_from_space]

Edited: oh, one more question: with this code, will I be able to set things like input length, allowed characters and so on?

Yes, Renpy handles all of this as part of the renpy.input() function, so you can just pass the usual keyword arguments like "length", "exclude", "mask"... at least I hope it won't raise some exception because the prompt is not just a string anymore.

Yeah, me too...

I mean it works on my end, but I didn't test any edge cases. But here is how you would do it not using a list, but a string:

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screen myinput(prompt):
    default prompt_list = prompt.split("|")
    ...
    
label start:
    $ name = renpy.input("Eileen|What is your name?", screen="myinput")

[Sirifys-Al]

Yes, Renpy handles all of this as part of the renpy.input() function, so you can just pass the usual keyword arguments like "length", "exclude", "mask"... at least I hope it won't raise some exception because the prompt is not just a string anymore.

Yeah, me too...

I mean it works on my end, but I didn't test any edge cases. But here is how you would do it not using a list, but a string:

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screen myinput(prompt):
    default prompt_list = prompt.split("|")
    ...
    
label start:
    $ name = renpy.input("Eileen|What is your name?", screen="myinput")

Thanks!