Objectives screen?

[HammeredEnt]

Hi all!

I’m trying to put together a ‘current objectives’ screen for my game but am having problems with getting it to work how I want.

The story progression for each character is controlled by a simple numerical value – the character Anna starts off at value 0 and as each step in the story progresses that goes up by one to trigger new events, etc. I figure it should be relatively easy to have something along the lines of

“if anna == 1
Get Anna repaired.”
Or
“if clea == 3
Find an object of magical value to bring to the Sanctum.”
Or
“if pg == 4
Consult Friday at the Foundry.”

I’m trying to display them all on screen at the same time for multiple characters (not as dialogue which the coding above kinda does, of course) and I don’t see anything in the cookbook that lends itself to this sort of thing. Can anyone help point me in the right direction for something in this vein? There are multiple characters that will have open objectives at any time, so it’s not just one listing at a time. I do want to try and future-proof it so that there can be multiple ‘pages’ of this information, rather than jammed onto one ‘page’ but I’m hazy on that code too, sorry!

I’m also squeezing in a little quicklinks menu at the bottom of that screen as well (it’s a cellphone interface) which is it’s own actual screen, just in case that affects how I need to approach this.

Thanks everyone!

[XxrenxX]

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if anna == 1:
    "Get Anna repaired."
if clea == 3:
    "Find an object of magical value to bring to the Sanctum."
if pg == 4:
    "Consult Friday at the Foundry."

Indentation and not having the if's in "" might help. So if it's set up as a menu it could be like this

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menu:
    if anna == 1:
        "Get Anna repaired.":
            jump label1
    if clea == 3:
        "Find an object of magical value to bring to the Sanctum.":
            jump label2
    if pg == 4:
        "Consult Friday at the Foundry.":
            jump label3
    else:
        jump label4 #incase no one has any of above

[xavimat]

So if it's set up as a menu it could be like this

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menu:
    if anna == 1:
        "Get Anna repaired.":
            jump label1
    if clea == 3:
        "Find an object of magical value to bring to the Sanctum.":
            jump label2
    if pg == 4:
        "Consult Friday at the Foundry.":
            jump label3
    else:
        jump label4 #incase no one has any of above

@XxrenxX, have you tried your code? It's not working for me. Menus does not work that way. See: https://renpy.org/doc/html/menus.html

[xavimat]

Hi all!

I’m trying to put together a ‘current objectives’ screen for my game but am having problems with getting it to work how I want.

The story progression for each character is controlled by a simple numerical value – the character Anna starts off at value 0 and as each step in the story progresses that goes up by one to trigger new events, etc. I figure it should be relatively easy to have something along the lines of

“if anna == 1
Get Anna repaired.”
Or
“if clea == 3
Find an object of magical value to bring to the Sanctum.”
Or
“if pg == 4
Consult Friday at the Foundry.”

I’m trying to display them all on screen at the same time for multiple characters (not as dialogue which the coding above kinda does, of course) and I don’t see anything in the cookbook that lends itself to this sort of thing. Can anyone help point me in the right direction for something in this vein? There are multiple characters that will have open objectives at any time, so it’s not just one listing at a time. I do want to try and future-proof it so that there can be multiple ‘pages’ of this information, rather than jammed onto one ‘page’ but I’m hazy on that code too, sorry!

I’m also squeezing in a little quicklinks menu at the bottom of that screen as well (it’s a cellphone interface) which is it’s own actual screen, just in case that affects how I need to approach this.

Thanks everyone!

This is the simplest way I can think:

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default objectives = {
    "Chara1": ["Chara1-Obj0", "Chara1-Obj1", "Chara1-Obj2"],
    "Chara2": ["Chara2-Obj0", "Chara2-Obj1", "Chara2-Obj2"],
    "Chara3": ["Chara3-Obj0", "Chara3-Obj1", "Chara3-Obj2"],
    "Chara4": ["Chara4-Obj0", "Chara4-Obj1", "Chara4-Obj2"]
    }

default points = {"Chara1": 0, "Chara2": 0, "Chara3": 0, "Chara4": 0}

screen objs():
    vbox:
        for k, v in points.items():
            text "[k]: " + objectives[k][v]

label start:
    show screen objs
    "Let's start."
    $ points["Chara1"] += 1
    "Hi!"
    $ points["Chara2"] += 1
    "Hello!"
    $ points["Chara3"] += 1
    "Sup!"
    $ points["Chara1"] += 1
    "Hi!"
    $ points["Chara4"] += 1
    "Howdy!"
    return