Adding a CTC animation to custom name

[chesarty]

I'm wondering how to add a CTC animation to the dialogue of the player character. I can't find an easy way of doing this

Here's my code:

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$ mc = renpy.input("Your Name", length=8)
    $ mc = mc.strip()
    if mc == "":
        $ mc="MC"
        
init -1:
    $ d = Character("Damon", ctc="ctc_animation", ctc_position="fixed")
    $ a = Character("Atticus", color="#ffffff", ctc="ctc_animation", ctc_position="fixed")
    $ r = Character("Rhys", ctc="ctc_animation", ctc_position="fixed")
    $ e = Character("Enzo", ctc="ctc_animation", ctc_position="fixed")
    $ n = Character(None, ctc="ctc_animation", ctc_position="fixed")

Adding the ctc animation definition to the renpy.input line doesn't work...

[chesarty]

Still can't find a solution to this.

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$ mc = Character("[mc]", ctc="ctc_animation", ctc_position="fixed")

This does nothing :/

[RicharDann]

Characters should be defined with define statement. Also you may want to use a different variable for the character's name to avoid confusion with the character object. Try something like:

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define mc = Character("[mc_name]", ctc="ctc_animation")

label start:
    $ mc_name = renpy.input("Your Name", length=8)
    $ mc_name = mc_name.strip()

    mc "My name is [mc_name]!"

[chesarty]

Characters should be defined with define statement. Also you may want to use a different variable for the character's name to avoid confusion with the character object. Try something like:

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define mc = Character("[mc_name]", ctc="ctc_animation")

label start:
    $ mc_name = renpy.input("Your Name", length=8)
    $ mc_name = mc_name.strip()

    mc "My name is [mc_name]!"

Thanks! That worked. Do you have any idea why it didn't work before? Before this I used define statements to define the character, but it still didn't work. From what I can see the code is the exact same one I used earlier... Maybe it just got confused because of the naming?

[chesarty]

Welp, now the ctc animation is gone again. I literally didn't change the code at all but it just disappeared??? Only on the mc character, too.