[Solved] Variable Dialog Box

[Shatter]

Hello All and thank you for any assistance you are willing to give.

I am working on a relationship-type VN whereas the MC is liked or mistrusted by the NPCs. Blah blah, we all know this type of game.
So i have a typical stat Friendship scaled 1-16 nothing crazy
However, my idea is this
As the variable of friendship changes, I would like to change the dialog box to match...
Example:
Friendship = 0 default black border
Friendship = 5 A red box with hearts
Friendship = 10 a purple box with flowers
Friendship = 15 gold box

the actual image doesn't matter where I am having a hard time is getting the image to change per character per friendship variable
Does that make sense? I feel like i am either missing something or maybe overthinking it but I just can't seem to get it to work.

Anyhow again thank you for your thoughts and assistance.
-Shatter

[Xiael]

Hello to solve your problem, you have to break it down to small parts first. Let's lay down the specs that you want to do:
1 You want the dialogue box to change per character
2 Each character has their variable friendship points
3 Each dialogue box has different modes depending on the friendship points per character
Now that we know what to look for, we need to find the unique variable that differentiates each character first so that we can determine which dialogue box to use.

Suppose you have a character chara1.

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define chara1= Character(name="Char")

First, how do we know who's talking and who's not?
If you look at the say screen, you'll find that there's a variable called who.
In this case, who stands for the name of the character speaking "Char". But we don't want that, because it may change for cases when you re-set a character's name. Two characters may have the same name too, and yet they may have different dialogue boxes, therefore we should avoid using that. So what we actually want is chara1, which won't ever change throughout your game, and that variable is stored in _last_say_who

So now that we have the unique variable that differs per character. We go ahead and set that in the Say Screen.

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screen say(who, what):
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        id "window"

        if who is not None:

            window:
                id "namebox"
                style "namebox"
                text who id "who"
		if _last_say_who=="chara1":
			#your code to change the background of the window
		
        text what id "what"

Next, we'll need a dynamic image that changes based on certain variables. Thankfully, we can use ConditionSwitch() (https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displaya ... tionSwitch if you want to read more).

We will use this to set the background of the window based on the variable friendship that you have made per capturable character. In this case, I set friendship_char1 as the variable that decides which image to use. And with that, here's the final ConditionSwitch():

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screen say(who, what):
    style_prefix "say"

    window:
        id "window"

        if who is not None:

            window:
                id "namebox"
                style "namebox"
                text who id "who"
		if _last_say_who=="chara1":
                    background ConditionSwitch(
                        "friendship_char1 == 0", "gui/frame_chara1_4.png",
                        "friendship_char1 <= 5 and friendship_char1 >0", "gui/frame_chara1_3.png",
                        "friendship_char1 <= 10 and friendship_char1 >5", "gui/frame_chara1_2.png",
                        "friendship_char1 <= 15 and friendship_char1 >10", "gui/frame_chara1_1.png",
                        "True", "gui/frame.png")
		
        text what id "what"

And with that you now have a working code on changing the image based on the variables _last_say_who (who's talking) and friendship_char1. Next step is to automate that process for the other characters, but I'll leave that part for you to experiment on if you wanna :^>

Goodluck with your project!

[Shatter]

Ok wow so I made that soooo overly complicated no wonder it wouldn't work

Thank you so much that was way more than I was expecting
My wall and my forehead thank you also... mouse and keyboard probably should also


Joking aside thank you

[Xiael]

Ok wow so I made that soooo overly complicated no wonder it wouldn't work

Thank you so much that was way more than I was expecting
My wall and my forehead thank you also... mouse and keyboard probably should also


Joking aside thank you

No problem! :> Glad to help
Don't forget to mark as [Solved] if you have no more clarifications~