Characters and images

[choklitchan]

I want to put a character side image in my game. I only need one character.
I read the conditional statement tutorial,
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/coo ... ide_Images,
though I don't think I fully understand. Here's my code.

$ i = Character('Ivari',
color = "#c8ffc8",
window_left_padding=160,
show_side_image=ConditionSwitch(
"express = 'sleepy1'", "yivari_sleepy1.png",
"express = '1'", "yivari1.png",
"express = 'normal'", "yivari_normal.png",
"express = 'yell'", "yivari_yell",
"express = 'cry'", "yivary_cry.png",
"express = 'sad'", "yivari_sad.png",
"express = 'sleepy'", "yivari_sleepy2.png",
"express = 'happy'", "yivari_happy.png",
)
)
and try to express it later by this:

define express = "1"
q "Good night, sweetheart."
i "Good night, mother."

It stops running after q talks.

traceback.txt:
If I put the $ sign as the tutorial suggests, I receive
Exception: Sayer 'i' is not defined
If I put define, as I usually do with Characters, I receive
SyntaxError: invalid syntax (<none>, line 1)

What did I do wrong, and how can I fix it? I'm just starting out on Renpy, and I'm still unused to programming.
Can anyone help me, please? Thank you. ^_^

[pkt]

$ i = Character('Ivari', color = "#c8ffc8", window_left_padding=160,show_side_image=ConditionSwitch("express = 'sleepy1'", "yivari_sleepy1.png","express = '1'", "yivari1.png","express = 'normal'", "yivari_normal.png","express = 'yell'", "yivari_yell","express = 'cry'", "yivary_cry.png","express = 'sad'", "yivari_sad.png","express = 'sleepy'", "yivari_sleepy2.png","express = 'happy'", "yivari_happy.png",))

This is one solution to the first problem which is the indentation of a multiline statement. Those things can be tricky and they won't work out right unless you have the proper indentation but if you put it all on one line then you can avoid that though this isn't the solution to every problem. I placed it all on one line which should solve the problem. And here's the fix for the calling statement...

$ express = "1"
q "Good night, sweetheart."
i "Good night, mother."

[choklitchan]

thanks, pkt!