Character understanding

[isobellesophia]

Hello everyone.

So i was just trying to confirm one thing, about characters and their sprites.
Okay... for example.. i defined a name Elieen and the short name for her dialogue are "e"

So like this..

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e "Hello world!"

As i already know, characters can be named in many ways like this.

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show e happy with dissolve
e "Hello world!"

What i don't get is... if i defined a different name and a different image name, does the sprite show twice in the same time when i am trying to change the character's expression while trying to change the short name dialogue?

Just because i have a voice act in my feature. That's it.

Like this for example, i defined a different name code into "e2"

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show e happy
e2 "Hello world!"
show e2 happy 2  #Just in case the image show twice.
e "Hello world!"

Im sorry that i can't have a chance to touch computer, i was in my tab so...
Btw sorry for my bad english.

[qirien]

So, in your code example, e and e2 are two completely different sprites. So, in your example, yes, they would show twice. If you want to have one character called "e" with multiple expressions, you should have the sprites in your game/images directory named something like
"e happy.jpg"
"e sad.jpg"
"e amused.jpg"
And then you can use them in your script by writing something like:

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show e happy
e sad "I had a hard time with images..."
e happy "But now that I understand it, it's not too bad!"
e amused "Now I just have to decide what to write..."

Is this what you want to do?

You can also define lots of different tags for different things, like

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e dress happy "Party time!"

if you have a corresponding image like "e dress happy.jpg"

[trooper6]

Also you shouldn't name different things the same.
So you should not have a character named e and a sprite named e. That will lead to problems.

So if your character is called e, then name your sprite eileen, or whatever.

[isobellesophia]

Now i get it, thanks for all the advice, it seems all helpful to me.