Persistent Data in an Extra Story? [SOLVED]

[DiamondDust132]

This has been driving me crazy all day, so any help would be appreciated. Basically, my game allows you to name the main character. That's worked like a charm for the main story, but I can't get the persistent data to work in the extra story I've added. I'm presuming it's because of the way I've coded, but I've no idea how to fix the issue. What I'm presuming is the game loads the bonus scene up first, skipping the input section in the script and anything already in the save data. Again, any help would be nice.

Here's how I've got the extra scene put on the main menu if you beat the two routes in the game.

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if main_menu:

            textbutton _("Start") action Start()

            if persistent.IchigoClear and persistent.IchikaClear:
                textbutton _("Bonus") action Start('bonus')

And I get this error upon loading up the extra route. Again, it's not finding the name.

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/Bonus.rpy", line 10, in script
    AY "Oh, boy. Here we go..."
KeyError: u'name'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/Bonus.rpy", line 10, in script
    AY "Oh, boy. Here we go..."
  File "C:\Users\Aaron Mays\Downloads\RenPy\renpy-6.99.12.4-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 678, in execute
    renpy.exports.say(who, what, interact=self.interact, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Aaron Mays\Downloads\RenPy\renpy-6.99.12.4-sdk\renpy\exports.py", line 1229, in say
    who(what, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Aaron Mays\Downloads\RenPy\renpy-6.99.12.4-sdk\renpy\character.py", line 1012, in __call__
    who = who_pattern.replace("[who]", sub(who))
  File "C:\Users\Aaron Mays\Downloads\RenPy\renpy-6.99.12.4-sdk\renpy\character.py", line 1007, in sub
    return renpy.substitutions.substitute(s, scope=scope, force=force, translate=translate)[0]
  File "C:\Users\Aaron Mays\Downloads\RenPy\renpy-6.99.12.4-sdk\renpy\substitutions.py", line 244, in substitute
    s = formatter.vformat(s, (), kwargs)
  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 563, in vformat
  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 585, in _vformat
  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 646, in get_field
  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 605, in get_value
KeyError: u'name'

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 7.1.3.1092
Gemini ~ Team Requiem 1.0
Thu Feb 07 16:39:12 2019

And this is how I have the name input set up in the script.

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$ name = renpy.input("What's your name?", default="Ayumu", length=10)
    $ name = name.strip()
    $ persistent.name = "[name]"
    $ renpy.save_persistent()
 

[mitoky]

Can you try this out?

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    $ name = renpy.input("What's your name?", default="Ayumu", length=10)
    $ name = name.strip()
    $ persistent.name = name

[Wight]

Also, if you haven't already done so, try putting this at the beginning of the Bonus chapter after making the adjustment mitoky suggested:

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$ name = persistent.name

I think the way this works is that the game remembers the persistent flag for the original playthrough's name, and this tells it to copy that flag and set it as the name for the new playthrough in the Bonus chapter. Otherwise it might give an error or fall back on the default name.

Or you can use "[persistent.name]" instead of "[name]" for the dialogue in the Bonus chapter. I'm noticing that works too.

[DiamondDust132]

Haha! That did it! Thanks a lot to both of you. I was about to tear my hair out there.

[mitoky]

Also, if you haven't already done so, try putting this at the beginning of the Bonus chapter after making the adjustment mitoky suggested:

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$ name = persistent.name

I think the way this works is that the game remembers the persistent flag for the original playthrough's name, and this tells it to copy that flag and set it as the name for the new playthrough in the Bonus chapter. Otherwise it might give an error or fall back on the default name.

Or you can use "[persistent.name]" instead of "[name]" for the dialogue in the Bonus chapter. I'm noticing that works too.

Oh yes, thank you for pointing that out!

Haha! That did it! Thanks a lot to both of you. I was about to tear my hair out there.

And no problem at all (: Dont forget to add [SOLVED] into the title so people know this problem is solved!