A Basic Tutorial on Name, Relationship and Gender Variables

Game Development
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Why is it gosub instead of goto?

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There’re actually no much difference between both in this case. It’s just about using the correct label, and *goto will yield result just like *gosub gives.

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I seem to be having an issue with the full name code. [code]*goto hello_name

*label hello_name
*set fullname (name& " ") &surname
“Hello {mr} {name} ${surname}. It is nice to meet you.”[/code]

For some reason the ${fullname} is reading like this on the stat page is showing like this

name Chosen surname.

So the surname shows up but the name is just the word name. I copied it from the tutorial and tried moving things around several ways but still can’t seem to fix it. What am I missing?

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Assuming both name and surname are set correctly have proper values, I can see just two issues with your examples there:

*set fullname (name&" ")&surname

Two spaces removed – it should all be one ‘word’ except where you actually want a space &" ".

“Hello ${mr} ${name} ${surname}. It is nice to meet you.”

Each variable name needs the dollar symbol to display properly.

46

Right, sorry about the dollar signs. For some reason the disappeared when I copied the text from note pad. But they are in the original code.

I’ll try the editing out the extra spaces tomorrow, fingers crossed that works. Thanks for the help

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So I have run into a bit of a problem.
I am marking a character, but in this particular label, 1 of the other characters has been pree: set.
Anyway, is there a way that I can set the game up to just insert gender pronounce for NPC characters, without gaveling to *If a bunch of stuff.
I can do that, but kind of annoying.
Anyway.

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If I understand your problem correctly, you can set all of the variables under the same if statement, e.g.:

*if (condition)
 *set heShe "he"
 *set himHer "him"
 *set hisHer "his"

etc.

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You’d still need to do the *if, but only once (or a set of two or more). Use the *if to set up variables for your pronouns, then use the print syntax ${pronoun} to replace all the pronouns in the text.

*if npc1 = "male"
   *set npc11 "he"
   *set npc12 "him"
   *set npc13 "his"
   *set npc14 "his"

It's ${npc12}. $!{npc11} is the child of ${npc13} parents.
It's him. He is the child of his parents.