[Solved] Certain Events Aren't Triggering with my points in the Script

[CrystalD]

I'm coding a small game just to get used to renpy, and I'm using 3 sets of points. It's a slice of life short story surrounding a baker starting a new business, and a cat that pesters her and I want certain things to trigger depending on how many points they have. Like I have if you give the cat certain items, the points go up and different things happen that show the cat is attached to the baker, and another is that if the baker has a certain amount of prepared points, a business man comes in and offers them some investment capital, and that sequence of events leads to a meeting with said business man.

The problem I've been having is, I have the points set, and the game runs fine, but those events aren't triggering? Especially the business man showing up: I've tried so many things with that one, like setting a true or false variable, but no matter what I do the same sort of things trigger in the script, and the business man sequence doesn't even show up at all. Here's what I've set in the script for now:

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label start:
$ baking_buffup = 0
$ prepared_points = 0
$ cat_points = 0

label day_2_tally:
if prepared_points >= 2:
    jump business_offer
if cat_points >= 6:
    jump cat_eats_cookie
if cat_points >= 4:
    jump cat_dozing
if cat_points >= 2:
    jump cat_chillin

I've also tried this for the business_offer label:

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label start:
$ make_business_plan = False

label day_2_tally:
    if make_business_plan == True:
        jump business_offer

So yeah, I honestly have no clue what I've done wrong, unless I have to set up where I write the scenes differently? right after I set the points tallies, I write the respective scenes, or do I need to add a different sort of statement to make it work?
Any help would be appreciated!

[IrinaLazareva]

Well, if I have correctly understood...
try instead of:

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if cat_points >= 6:
    jump cat_eats_cookie
if cat_points >= 4:
    jump cat_dozing
if cat_points >= 2:
    jump cat_chillin

the following code:

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label whatever:
    if cat_points >= 6:
        jump cat_eats_cookie
    elif 6 > cat_points >= 4:
        jump cat_dozing
    elif 4 > cat_points >= 2:
        jump cat_chillin    
    else:
        pass # options with cat_points < 2

[CrystalD]

Edit: It half worked! For some reason, my middle option isn't jumping to the 3rd jump statement/scene I've set though? I feel like this is something so obvious I just am not getting. Do you have to structure the points in a certain order to make the logic work?

Code I have right now is this:

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label cat_convo_1:
if cat_points >= 6:
    jump cat_eats_cookie
elif 6 > cat_points >= 4:
    jump cat_dozing
elif 4 > cat_points >= 2:    
    jump cat_chillin

I'll try it, I tried just switching everything to an elif statement and it didn't work but I didn't have it structured like that haha. Why in the other 2 examples you have it like this?

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    elif 6 > cat_points >= 4:
        jump cat_dozing
    elif 4 > cat_points >= 2:
        jump cat_chillin

like with the 6 > cat_points >= 4 why is it structured like that? I've never seen any examples structured like that before so want to know the logic behind it.

Also any ideas why my True False statement with the business man section aren't working?

[IrinaLazareva]

For some reason, my middle option isn't jumping to the 3rd jump statement/scene I've set though?

Also any ideas why my True False statement with the business man section aren't working?

I'm not sure, but, may be, problem in the identation... (The program can pass lines if they aren't allocated with a indentation)
For example, lines

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label cat_convo_1:
if cat_points >= 6:

have to be

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label cat_convo_1:
    if cat_points >= 6:

like with the 6 > cat_points >= 4 why is it structured like that? I've never seen any examples structured like that before so want to know the logic behind it.

6 > cat_points >= 4 is equivalent to cat_points < 6 and cat_points >= 4.
Here some doc about this.

[CrystalD]

OK, I'll mess around with it! A lot of my points throughout the script aren't indented and I wasn't getting any run errors from it, so I'll see if indenting them helps fix the problem. Thank you

[CrystalD]

After tinkering with stuff I realized my problem was not adding a jump statement to jump to point tallies haha, so going to mark this as solved