Side Images Not Appearing With Variable Styled Names!

[jac600]

Howdy everybody! A friend of mine has been giving it his all making a Ren'Py system for a super in depth game recently. But he's ran into a wall I want to help him with.

The objective is to make a variable name that displays a side image for the name currently filling that variable.

Whenever a character speaks their side image is suppose to appear, however with the code (detailed below) this image does not appear when the name is a variable rather than a specific value. I.E. If the name called upon is: Amanda. It shows up great. But if it's a variable that is equal to Amanda, no dice. Thank you all for your time.


label start:
#Defining Amanda & Side Image
define Amanda = Character("Amanda", window_left_padding=165, image="Amanda")
image side Amanda = im.FactorScale("side_Amanda.png", 0.5, 0.5)

#Designating Neutral Variable
$ name = "Amanda"

#Displays Side Image Properly
Amanda "Hello"

#Does Not Display Side Image
name "Hello"

#Displays Side Image Properly
Amanda "Hello"
return

[rayminator]

put theses above label start

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define Amanda = Character("Amanda", window_left_padding=165, image="Amanda")
image side Amanda = im.FactorScale("side_Amanda.png", 0.5, 0.5)

[Alex]

This happened 'cause you can show some text without declaring a character first, like

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"some_name" "Heloo..."

So,

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$ name = "Amanda"

assigns the text value to variable 'name'.

And

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name "Hello"

just shows "Hello" by undeclared character with name stored in variable 'name'.

Try

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$ name = Amanda # pre-defined character without quotes

[kivik]

As alex said, what you want is to actually store the character in the variable, not the name. If there’s a reason you need go bring up a character by the name as string for any reason, then you may want to use a dict. After you’ve setup the Amanda character:

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npc = {“Amanda”: Amanda}
$ name = “Amanda”
npc[name] “hello world”

That should work because npc[“Amanda”] is the Amanda character.

[jac600]

Thanks everybody! You replied super fast and were able to help out. My friend was skeptical, but your solution did solve his problem Alex! All of you have an awesome day.