Hello, I’m Sophie, kinda new here (like, newborn baby new) to the forum. I don’t quite know if this is an allowed question or if it’s been asked and answered, so if I need to take this down I will do so.
The problem I’m running into is command prompts(?) when it comes to stats. I am using CSIDE on my windows laptop and as I’m doing little test runs for my story, I get an error that says "Non-existant variable ‘distrustful’ "
My code looks like:
*stat_chart
opposed_pair Distrustful
Trustful
You have to declare the variable first in your “startup” file, like this
*create distrustful 50
Also, keep in mind that since that’s an opposing pair, when you want to become more trustful, you will have to modify the distrustful variable.
thank you for the reply! I tried it ans my apologies maybe I’m still doing it wrong? I went into my startup and typed
*create Distrustful 50
and yet its still giving me an error as “Non-existent variable”. Am I supposed to write something else?
Just tried it in a test project and it works. Are you sure you are indenting your stats correctly? Your choicescript_stats file should look like this
*stat_chart
opposed_pair Distrustful
Trustful
opposed_pair has one tab in front of it and Trustful has two.
Yep, that’s exactly what it looks like! I tried to take a picture but the forum says I can’t embed a photo:( Thanks for chiming in to help, somehow it won’t go through on mine
Did you write *create Distrustful 50 at the top of startup.txt? *create will not work if you put it after some commands like *page_break.
IT FINALLY WORKED!! yay, thank u so much. I’ve been wondering where I’d been going wrong—I even watched a tutorial and it didn’t click that I was supoosed to write it at the top. thank you very much 
You’re welcome! Glad I could help.
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