chaging/replacing filenames in the show image action

[xenosss]

What I'd like to know is, what function can I use to replace the letter x with y in the following statement. Let's say I have a bunch of images named ''character x happy/sad/shocked" and ''character y happy/sad/shocked"
x and y are completely different designs.

if alternativedesign == true
x = y

show character x happy
show character1 x happy
show character2 x shocked

What I'd like to happen is that instead of showing my ''character x happy'' image, it'll show my ''character y happy'' image instead and so on.

To clarify, I'm not looking for alternative solutions, what I'm looking for is a function to replace x with y when I make the ''show'' action, not typing it manually for every image, since I'll have many designs that need replacing.

[enaielei]

You can try using ConditionSwitch for this.

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default alternativedesign = True

image character happy = ConditionSwitch(
    "alternativedesign", "character x happy",
    "True", "character y happy"
)

label start:
   show character happy
   pause
   $ alternativedesign = False
   show character happy

Or use text interpolation.

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default alternative = "x"

image character happy = "character_[alternative]_happy.png"

label start:
   show character happy
   pause
   $ alternative = "y"
   show character happy

Also, the show expression statement can be utilized as well.

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default alternativedesign = True

label start:
    show expression "character {} happy".format("y" if alternativedesign else "x")

There are other ways, these are only some.

[xenosss]

label start:
show expression "character {} happy".format("y" if alternativedesign else "x")
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There are other ways, these are only some.

Thank you a lot for your swift reply, the ''show expression'' statement is the closest to what I've been looking for/can understand. the ideal would be a function I could write that replaces all my x's with y's in my ''show'' actions. So I could just write ''character x mood'' and just turn off/on the function to replace the x whenever needed.

If you don't happen to know of any renpy/python functions that allow for that, I still thank you for your insight and time

[enaielei]

I think this is what you're looking for then:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/statemen ... renpy.show

[Ocelot]

If you are interested in making things correctly, ConditionSwitch or dynamic images (text interpolation) is the way.

If you are in "I cannot afford to edit thousands lines of code right now and I am fine with raising technical debt" situation, then https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.h ... attributes allows you to dynamically replace attributes.

You can use it like:

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default alternativedesign == True

init python:
    def replace_design(name):
        if getattr(store, "alternativedesign", False):  # I am not sure if prediction can happen during init phase, but let's cover that
            adjusted_name = (y if entry == x else entry for entry in name)
        else:
            adjusted_name = name
        return adjusted_name

define config.adjust_attributes[None] = replace_design