selectable char menu?

[Fang-tan]

What I'd like to do is make a menu at the start of the game to select a character to play with. I know how to do that but I don't know how to make a menu (and keep character's/routes locked until a specific route is completed).

example of what I would like to do


thanks in advance. .___.

[killdream]

You can use ui functions for this, and use Persistent data to see if a route is or not completed.

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label char_select:
    
    python:
        
        # this function takes care of creating the clickable character buttons ^^
        def char_slot(char_image, char_image_locked, locked, result):
            # char_image is the image of the character
            # char_image_locked is the image used when the character is locked (like a grayscale picture of they)
            # locked is a boolean (True or False) value that indicates if the character is locked or not
            # result is the value returned when the user clicks on the character
            
            if locked:
                image = char_image_locked
                image_over = char_image_locked
                clicked = None
            else:
                image = char_image
                image_over = im.MatrixColor(image, im.matrix.brightness(.15))
                clicked = ui.returns(result)
                
            ui.imagebutton(image, image_over, clicked=clicked)
            
        # here we add the characters to the screen.
        ui.hbox(spacing=5)
        
        char_slot("character1.png", "character1_locked.png", False, "char1") # the first character will be always available
        char_slot("character2.png", "character2_locked.png", (not persistent.char1_route), "char2") # the second character will be available only if the user completed the first character route
        
        # third and fourth character will be available after the user completed the character 2 route
        char_slot("character3.png", "character3_locked.png", (not persistent.char2_route), "char3")
        char_slot("character4.png", "character4_locked.png", (not persistent.char2_route), "char4")
        
        ui.close() # closes the hbox
        
        selection = ui.interact(suppress_overlay=True, suppress_underlay=True) # don't let the user calls the menu in this selection
        
        if selection == "char1":
            ui.jumps("char1_start")
        elif selection == "char2":
            ui.jumps("char2_start")
        elif selection == "char3":
            ui.jumps("char3_start")
        elif selection == "char4":
            ui.jumps("char4_start")

To enable some character, just set the persistent variable to that character. Like, say, you beat the character 1 route, then on the end of that route you'd put some code like this:

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    $ persistent.char1_route = True

[georgmay]

in this situation, i think, the better solution use the MultiPersistent.