Name choice error

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#1

I’m having trouble with the character being able to choose their name.

This is what i have written there:

*label name
*choice
 #Jacob
 #John
 #Jonathan
 #Jack
 #Henry
*input_text name
 #Wait, these are not my names
 
  Your name is ${name}, is that right?
*choice
 #Yes
 #Wait, no it's not.
*goto name

My error looks like this:
startup line 34: Expected choice body

#2 
*choice
   #Jacob
      *set name "Jacob"

Repeat this kind of structure for every options

#3

But i want the character to write their name down and select it, if you know what i mean.

#4

Well, if you want to give the player a “create my own name,” you just need to add a separate option

   #I want my own name
      *input_text name
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#5

Then you don’t need the choice statement. Just print something to tell the player what they’re doing and follow it with the input statement.

Enter name:
*input_text name

The choice statement prints a list of options, each of which has to be followed by some text or an instruction.

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#6

#Wait, these are not my names
*input_text name
Works.

Doesn’t work
*goto is
*label is
Your name is ${name}, is that right?
*choice
#Yes
#Wait, no it’s not.
*goto name
Error: Expected choice body.

#7

Just like the previous one, you need some rando-bunch of text below the option

#option
   rando-bunch of text

CScript doesn’t like “empty” choices.

#8

But it wants a choice after i put in *goto name … Why?

#9

Because you put it back into the choice.
It doesn’t really matter, IMO. The player can always pick the “create my name” option again.

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#10 
Ok, and what is that?
*create name "Jacob"
*create name "John"
*create name "Jonathan"
*create name "Jack"
*create name "Henry"

(This is at the beginning of startup)

These are the choices:
#Jacob
  *set name Jacob
 #John
  *set name John
 #Jonathan
  *set name Jonathan
 #Jack
  *set name Jack
 #Henry
  *set name Henry

And this is the error:
startup line 35: Non-existent variable ‘jacob’

#11

You can click the preformatted text button to put your code into, so we can see if there are any issues with spacing.

It’s the button that looks like this:

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#12

Ok yeah, you only need to create the name variable one time like this:

*create name ""

You can also put in a stand-in name just for now:

*create name "Default"

Because it will change when you set the name.
When you change a variable that you created with quotations, like the name variable, whatever you set it to also has to be in quotations. So, you’ll want to do…

*set name "Jacob"

And so on…

Because if you have *set name Jacob without quotes that means it’s trying to look for a variable called Jacob

#13

Version for idiots, please.

#14

I mean, i already did that, i did *create name "Jacob" and then in the choice *set name Jacob So why is it telling me that the variable doesn’t exist?

#15

Because Jacob is a variable and "Jacob" is a string.

#16

And how do i fix that? Like i said, version for idiots, please.

#17

Whenever you do *set name
You need to have quotes around the name, like *set name "Jacob"

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#18 
*label name
*choice
   #Jacob
      *set name "Jacob"
      *goto is
   #John
      *set name "John"
      *goto is
   #Jonathan
      *set name "Jonathan"
      *goto is
   #Jack
      *set name "Jack"
      *goto is
   #Henry
      *set name "Henry"
      *goto is
   #Wait, these are not my names
      *goto name_input

*label name_input
Then what's your name?
*input_text name
*goto is

*label is
Your name is ${name}, is that right?
*choice
   #Yes
      *goto next
   #Wait, no it’s not.
      *goto name_input

There you go

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#19

Since when did gods exist?

#20

I could show you how to make a name-check subroutine scene and put it in there if you like?