Help with Branches

[undertone]

Okay, so I am at a point where I need to branch the game, and the documentation is too vague for me.

Here is the script
"I hesitated. Should I keep going, pretending to ignore the person, or should I turn around and ask him to stop following me."

menu:
"Keep Walking":

"Its just my brain playing tricks on me."
"I kept walking, maybe I'm just being paranoid."
"As I made it to the store, walking inside, the man went by, only giving a quick glance on the way."


"Confront the Man"
"It isn't an illusion."
"I turned around, giving the man a jump."
"In Japanese he said."
m "Shit, does he know?"
l "Ahha! So I was right! You are following me!"
m "You speak Japanese?! Oh crap."
"He bolted, having cleary failed his mission, whatever it was."

I want to make it where each one ends up getting to a different point. For example, confronting the man should result in a different script like
"It turns out that I was being followed, which started this whole journey I am on now. After that day, I realized that I wasn't safe..." Yada yada, and that will start its own scenario.
While the other will begin its own scenario. So I'm basically writing two stories after the branch. What do I do?

[EternalDream]

You could do 2 things (From what I know ^^;;)

1. Split it into separate scripts (so create a new .rpy file and name it path1.rpy or something and continue writing from there each of them separately.)


2. If its like: 2 paths now, then one path and depending on the paths chosen before, separate into different paths, then use the if statement.

Some links that might help you:

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/tut ... er_Choices

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... anguage#if

Did I answer ur question? ...Or did I misunderstand? ^_^;;

[Showsni]

You can either put the entire story of each branch within each menu option, or jump elsewhere in your script. So, if you have:

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menu:
    "Keep Walking":
        "Its just my brain playing tricks on me."

    "Confront the Man":
        "It isn't an illusion."

You could either place the whole script inside each branch:

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menu:
    "Keep Walking":
        "Its just my brain playing tricks on me."
        (Whole script for this branch)
    "Confront the Man":
        "It isn't an illusion."
        (Whole script for this branch)

But that's pretty confusing, and you could end up with nested menus all over the place. It's probably better to use jumps:

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menu:
    "Keep Walking":
        "Its just my brain playing tricks on me."
        jump branch1
    "Confront the Man":
        "It isn't an illusion."
        jump branch 2

label branch1:
    (Whole script of this branch)

label branch2:
    (Whole script of this branch)

The actual branches can then be put anywhere and it will jump to them; they can even be put in seperate script files in your game folder, if you want to keep things organised that way.