Hi, I came across this issue last night as I was trying to program my stat screen.
My issue comes with trying to fit a decent amount of words into a single temporary variable. This is what I have:
*temp morale_flavour
*if morale >= 41
*set morale_flavour “You have an average amount of confidence. You are still daunted by considerable odds, but you do believe that you can perform most jobs with a decent amount of effort. There is nothing particularly out of place with your current psyche.”
*goto morale_text
While this does work, when I open the page it stretches the screen so that the entire variable is a single line of text, with no line breaks. If I try making line breaks into the code, it’ll throw me an exception, so for now I have no choice but to leave it as one big line.
I was wondering if there were any suggestions for a work-around for this, or an alternative strategy to get more text as a descriptor for statistics. Any help would be appreciated!
*fake_choice
-#{text1} {text2} ${text3}
–Choice Body
So if you want to use the whole text you would want to basically do the same with your temp variable and break it into chunks.
*temp morale_flavour_1
*temp morale_flavour_2
*temp morale_flavour_3
*if morale >= 41
*set morale_flavour_1 “You have an average amount of confidence. "
*set morale_flavour_2 “You are still daunted by considerable odds, but you do believe that you can perform most jobs with a decent amount of effort.”
*set morale_flavour_3 " There is nothing particularly out of place with your current psyche.”
*goto morale_text
{moral_flavour_1} {moral_flavour_2} ${moral_flavour_3} would give you a slightly different result and you can linebreak now.
Is there any particular reason the flavor text has to be a stat? It might be easier if you just use a regular *if statement for this kind of thing so you can add formatting as needed:
*if morale >= 41
You have an average amount of confidence.
*line_break
You are still daunted by considerable odds, but you do believe that you can perform most jobs with a decent amount of effort.
*line_break
There is nothing particularly out of place with your current psyche.
*goto next_section
It will still show the text if the conditions are met and will save you the hassle of making temps at all.
Here’s a similar section from the Choice of Rebels stats screen – this flavour text is based on “cred_a” (your credibility with the aristocracy), but you could do the same with morale.
ARISTOCRATS:
*line_break
*if cred_a > 299
You have sympathizers and supporters across a surprisingly broad range of dissatisfied aristocrats.
*line_break
*if (cred_a < 300) and (cred_a > 200)
Most aristocrats abhor your rebellion, but a handful are growing cautiously sympathetic.
*line_break
*if (cred_a < 200) and (cred_a > 99)
You are unpopular with your fellow aristocrats - those who have heard of your little rebellion, anyway.
*line_break
*if (cred_a < 100) and (cred_a > 0)
You are loathed by your fellow aristocrats as a bloody-handed traitor to your own kin.
*line_break
*if cred_a < 1
You are the object of rabid hatred by the aristocracy, who will stop at nothing to see you hunted down and killed.
*line_break
And if you want to use it repeatedly in the text rather than just the stats screen… in my chapter 2 I’ve got a *gosub morale_check which takes you to:
*label morale_check
At the moment,
*if morale < (followers/2)
you sense that morale is bad among your followers -- more than half of them are miserable.
*if (morale >= (followers/2)) and (morale < followers)
morale could definitely be better in the band; a significant minority of your followers are dispirited and would run away if the going got tough.
*if (morale >= followers) and (morale < (followers+20))
the band's morale is good, though you don't know how well it will hold up under a serious challenge.
*if morale >= (followers+20)
morale is outstanding among your band;
*if wealth > 9
you shouldn't need to spend any more on boosting their spirits.
*if wealth < 10
they're confident in your leadership and in their future.
*return
[I know it could be done with \*elseif and \*else, but I believe that would require lots of \*goto, which for some reason feels more fiddly to me than additional >< statements.]
Yeah, there was actually no real reason for it to be kept in a variable, since I’d only be calling it in the stat screen anyways. I think I’ll use the method that CS_Closet and Havenstone mentioned, though I’ll keep Pace’s suggestion in mind too since that’ll be useful if I actually need to use temps.
If you’re using Notepad++ you can go to the top toolbar’s “view” and select ‘word wrap’ that’ll make the text fit your screen size and prevent horizontal scrolling, automatically creating multiple line lines.
I actually do use Notepad++, but I use the vertical edge settings from the preferences instead, and then just line-break manually for readability. It seems that CScript automatically linebreaks words in the game, so there’s no need for me to make sure margins don’t fit or anything.
