Issue with custom narrator for different routes

[trailsiderice]

So, I want to change the styling of the narrator dialogue based on which route the player is on, but I can't seem to change the narrator style.

The way I have it set up is like so:

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define nar = Character(None)
default narrator = nar

define route1_nar = Character(None, who_style="route1_namebox", what_style="route1_dialogue", window_style="route1_window")

define route2_nar = Character(None, who_style="route1_namebox", what_style="route1_dialogue", window_style="route1_window")

I want to have it so that the continue/start buttons set the narrator style, and I thought I could do that like this:

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action [Start(route.startlabel), SetVariable("narrator",route.id + "_nar")]

but that doesn't work. I don't get an error, but the dialogue styling for the narrator doesn't change.
I tried using defaults instead of defines for the nar, route1_nar, route2_nar, etc definitions, but that didn't work either.

I already know I can use the styling I want by typing route1_nar before all narration text in my script, but I'd rather avoid doing that, because having to type out the name of the narrator character every time I want to put in narration is tedious and annoying. I'd prefer to dynamically change the style of the default narrator so I don't have to type it out every time.

Is there a way to make this work?

[m_from_space]

I don't get an error, but the dialogue styling for the narrator doesn't change.

In your code both the narrators are using the same styles, so what do you expect?

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On the other hand, you're setting "narrator" variable to be a string. I have no clue what that will invoke internally. You have to set it to be an object.

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SetVariable("narrator", getattr(store, route.id+"_nar"))

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Also make sure to change the variable before using "Start", because otherwise it won't be executed I assume.

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action [ SetVariable("narrator", getattr(store, route.id+"_nar")), Start(route.startlabel) ]

[trailsiderice]

I don't get an error, but the dialogue styling for the narrator doesn't change.

In your code both the narrators are using the same styles, so what do you expect?

They are definitely not the same. The default style is Character(None), which calls no style blocks for who_style or what_style, so defaults to the styling in gui.rpy. whereas the other variables link to different style blocks. I didn't include those style blocks because I figured it wasn't relevant, and because I thought it was self evident that they would be different from the gui.rpy defaults.

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On the other hand, you're setting "narrator" variable to be a string. I have no clue what that will invoke internally. You have to set it to be an object.

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SetVariable("narrator", getattr(store, route.id+"_nar"))

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Also make sure to change the variable before using "Start", because otherwise it won't be executed I assume.

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action [ SetVariable("narrator", getattr(store, route.id+"_nar")), Start(route.startlabel) ]

Ah, I didn't realize it mattered what order you put actions in when theyre in a list. I have up until now known them to execute at the same time, but maybe I was just lucky with how I was positioning them.

I'm not sure whether it was that or the fact that I was assigning it a string that caused the issue, but it must have been one (or both) of them, because I changed both and it seems to be working as intended now. Thank you for your help!