Customizable player character? Layering images?

[inkbrush]

Okay Lemmasoftians,

I have no idea what I'm doing right now.

I was trying to test something out and figure out the code on my own but it just made me confused and frustrated so I decided to ask for help because there's nothing wrong with that, right?

So, I was trying to figure out if/how I could layer images and such. You see, the player character in my game is customizable. Skin, eye color, hair color, etc. And to try to save a little bit of time, I was hoping that I could just layer the different eyes over the body and the different hairs over that, etc. So that I wouldn't have to create images for each possible combination. Sounds like something I can (or at least should) be able to do.

So, I've been looking at LiveComposite, ConditionSwitch, and leon's Dress Up Game code. But, as a result, I've just gotten very confused by all of this.

So, basically, what I was trying to do was just trying to put in two menus (one for hair and one for eyes) with minimal options, and after you go through the menus, you get the image of the character. (Essentially just so I could see that it was working) And I know that I can just get an answer now if it's possible or not but I still want to see this done now because . . . Some strange sense of accomplishment? I don't know, to be honest.


But, if I could get some help on how I would go about putting this together, that would be amazing! Thank you in advance to everyone that helps--

[Steamgirl]

Hi inkbrush,

What you'd like to do is entirely possible!

Here's a code rinrin posted in a different thread

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    image protagonist composite = LiveComposite((453, 600),
                                        (0, 0), "characters/body.png",
                                        (0, 0), "characters/face.png",
                                        (0, 0), ConditionSwitch(
                                            "hair_length == 'short-a'", "characters/hair-short-a.png", 
                                            "hair_length == 'short-b'", "characters/hair-short-b.png", 
                                            "hair_length == 'middle-a'", "characters/hair-middle-a.png",
                                            "hair_length == 'middle-b'", "characters/hair-middle-b.png",
                                            "hair_length == 'long-a'", "characters/hair-long-a.png",
                                            "hair_length == 'long-b'", "characters/hair-long-b.png",
                                            ),
                                        (0, 0), ConditionSwitch(
                                            "clothes == 'uniform'", "characters/uniform.png", 
                                            "clothes == 'pajamas'", "characters/pajamas.png",
                                            ),
                                        )

Here's the result
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =16&t=6223

I'd be happy to offer further (more specific) help if that is still too confusing.

[inkbrush]

Thank you for responding!

So, I entered the code you gave me (along with the edits I needed to do, haha). I'm still not sure how you would mark it to remember that you've chosen a certain hair/face/etc. though. I thought originally that I would just need to do insert the following:

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menu:
    "What hair color?"
    
    "Black":
        $ 'black-hair' = True
        
        "You chose black hair!"
        
        jump eye_color

But, that didn't work. So, how do I define that??

Also, I have a feeling that I might be doing something wrong, so I'll post everything that I have of my code here just to make sure that I've got everything right, lol.

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init:
    image heroine composite = LiveComposite((453, 600),
                                    (0, 0), "Base_skin1.png",
                                    (0, 0), ConditionSwitch(
                                        "face_eyecolor == 'pink-eyes'", "Face_eyes1_pink.png"
                                        "face_eyecolor == 'gray-eyes'", "Face_eyes2_gray.png"
                                        ),
                                    (0, 0), ConditionSwitch(
                                        "hair_style == 'black-hair'", "Hair_style4_color1_black.png"
                                        "hair_style == 'blue-hair'", "Hair_style4_color2_blue.png"
                                        ),
                                    )

define player = Character('You', color="#c8ffc8")


# The game starts here.
label start:

menu:
    "What hair color?"
    
    "Black":
        $ 'black-hair' = True
        
        "You chose black hair!"
        
        jump eye_color
    
    "Blue":
        $ 'blue-hair' = True
        
        "You chose blue hair!"
        
        jump eye_color
        
label eye_color:
    
menu:
    "Now, what eye color?"
    
    "Pink":
        $ 'pink-eyes' = True
        
        "You chose pink eyes!"
        
        jump player_result
    
    "Gray":
        $ 'gray-eyes' = True
        
        "You chose gray eyes!"
        
        jump player_result
        
label player_result:
    
    "Now you're done!"
    
    "Let's see if this worked, now."
    
    show heroine
    
    "Is this correct?"

    return

[philat]

It should be

$ hair-color = "black-hair"

not "black-hair" = True

[inkbrush]

Okay, I got everything working now, thank you!!

[Steamgirl]

Yay! Glad to hear it! I love customising my character in a game - so look forward to playing the end result one day! ^_^