Show number of unique endings achieved in main menu [Solved]

[Iwako]

Hi >< Sorry this is probably a really stupid question. I'm trying to display how many endings finished in the main menu, and I followed this post: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 29#p134417

It worked perfectly, up until I actually tried it. I probably messed up on the increasing persistent endings variable part (I basically just put $ persistent.endings_seen +=1 at the end of every ending), but I'm trying to get the number to only increase when I get a new different ending. Instead, even if I get the same ending over and over again, the number keeps on increasing >< I'm not sure how to fix that.

If anyone could help that'd be amazing. Thank you!

[trooper6]

I am on my iPad so I can't be totally specific, nor can I check the code in my own game, so I can't give you that info...but off the top of head, I can think of a couple different ways of doing it. In my game I wanted to keep track of easy specific ending achieved, but it looks like you just need the total number of endings achieved. So...

The first thing I can think of is that each ending has its own true/false variable which starts off as false.
For example: $ persistent.end1 = False

Then at the end of each of your individual ending blocks do an if statement like this:

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if persistent.end1 = false:
    $ persistent.end1 == true
    $ persistent.endings_seen += 1

Again, you'll have to check to make sure that is spelled right, but this idea checks to see if you've done the ending already. If yes, nothing happens. If no, it flags the ending complete and increases your ending seen variable.

[xavimat]

trooper6's idea seems fine, but the code seems not right:

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#Somewhere, in a .rpy file (outside a label):
init python:
    if persistent.endings_seen is None:
        persistent.endings_seen = 0

# At the end of every path:
if persistent.end1 is None:
    $ persistent.end1 = True
    $ persistent.endings_seen += 1

All the persistent.WHATEVER variables return None if they are not set, so, I think you need to set the 'persistent.endings_seen' variable to 0 before using it.

EDIT: corrected an error in python block

[trooper6]

trooper6's idea seems fine, but the code seems not right:

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#Somewhere, in a .rpy file (outside a label):
init python:
    if persistent.endings_seen is None:
        $ persistent.endings_seen = 0

# At the end of every path:
if persistent.end1 is None:
    $ persistent.end1 = True
    $ persistent.endings_seen += 1

All the persistent.WHATEVER variables return None if they are not set, so, I think you need to set the 'persistent.endings_seen' variable to 0 before using it.

Good info xavimat! I had just imagined initializing all the persistent variables at the start block...I tend to do that by habit, but didn't explicitly say so.

[Iwako]

Oh thank you so much! It makes a lot of sense.

However, I'm having a slight problem with the init code. I'm supposed to put

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init python:
    if persistent.endings_seen is None:
        $ persistent.endings_seen = 0

in a .rpy file outside of labels right? >< But I keep getting some syntax error whenever I get to that bit. Did I mess up anywhere?

Thank you again!

[xavimat]

Yes, my fault: the symbol $ is not needed inside a python block. Simply delete it.

[Iwako]

Oh! Works perfectly now. Thank you very much!