How to display a CG based on a customized character?

[ArizaLuca]

The main character of my game is customizable (sort of? You can choose the gender and ethnicity), and they're in a few CGs. How can you display a CG (computer graphic) image depending on the character? I've got an 'if' statement at the moment, but I don't know if that's correct.

[Ocelot]

You can do a ConditionSwitch or DynamicImage:

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image cg event1 = "cg/event1_[gender]_[ethnicity].png"
# . . .
$ gender = "female"
$ ethnicity = "caucasian"
show cg event1 # shows cg/event1_female_caucasian.png image

# . . .

image event2_male = ConditionSwitch(
    "ethnicity == 'caucasian'", "cg/event1_male_caucasian.png",
    "ethnicity == 'hispanic'", "cg/event1_male_hispanic.png",
)
image event2_female = ConditionSwitch(
    "ethnicity == 'caucasian'", "cg/event1_female_caucasian.png",
    "ethnicity == 'hispanic'", "cg/event1_female_hispanic.png",
)

image event2_female = ConditionSwitch(
    "gender == 'male'", event2_male,
    "gender == 'female'", event2_female,
)

# . . .
$ gender = "male"
$ ethnicity = "hispanic"
show cg event2 # shows cg/event2_male_hispanic.png image

[ArizaLuca]

Would that switch out the entire image, or only aspects of said image?

[Ocelot]

CG usually imply prerendered image, so it would switch whole image. If your CG is built dynamically, like LiveComposite, you can apply my solution only to part you need to change.