Stats Screen Design

Game Development
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I’m new to using ChoiceScript but so far, I got the gist of it. What I’m having trouble with mostly is designing my stats screen. I want to be able to describe my ROs, and lock their stats until the MC has met them. For example:

[RO Name]
Status: You have not met this person yet.

I have no idea how to code that though. The stats screen design I’m mostly aiming for is similar to The Wayhaven Chronicles’ stats screen, but I have no idea how to go about it. Little help please? Thank you in advance!

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You can look at he code of anything hosted on dashing don. If you want to see how the wayhaven 3 stats screen looks you can see here (spoilers beware):

https://dashingdon.com/play/seraphinite/the-wayhaven-chronicles-book-three-demo/mygame/scenes/choicescript_stats.txt

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The simplistic version is like this. Inside choicescript_stats.txt

${ro1_name}
*line_break
Status:
*if (ro1_relation > 2)
  You are friends.
  *goto ro1_relation_end
*elseif (ro1_relation > 1)
  You are acquaintances.
  *goto ro1_relation_end
*elseif (ro1_relation > 0)
  You met each other.
  *goto ro1_relation_end
*else
  You have not met this person yet.
  *goto ro1_relation_end
*label ro1_relation_end

The specifics of numbering/threshold is up to you. Add more *elseif levels as needed, but make sure if it’s descending, add top level comparison as the *if (there can only be one *if in a group of if-elseif-else code). Let me know if that sounds confusing. :innocent:

The rest of your design will take some time to get used to if you are just starting out. Peeking at other people’s code on dashingdon as Alice-chan mentioned is one way to do it. :slight_smile:

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Ohh, I see! I wasn’t aware you could do this in Dashingdon. Thank you so much, I’ll be checking the choicescript_stats.txt for reference soon :blush:

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Creating and keeping track of variables, plus implementing the numbering values is a little intimidating but this is really helpful! I’m not quite well-versed with the *if, *elseif, and *else statements yet but I’ll do my best to learn. Thank you so much, and for providing a coding example as well! :blush:

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Maybe create multiple variable to keep track of the ROs

I mean something like this:

In the startup.txt file you create a variable to keep track of one RO

*create metAlice false

And in the choicescript_stat.txt you include the code to lock the actual ROs. This one might be a bit tricky as you need to code the command stat_chart for every character so it output it correctly in the stat screen

*stat_chart
  *If metAlice false
    [b]Alice[/b]
    Status:
    You have not yet met this character
  *If metAlice true
    percent Alice

And lastly whenever the reader get to meet the actual character in the story you set the variable metAlice to true like that:

*set metAlice true

I know it’s a bit messy but it’s the only way I have found so far maybe there are easier ways to do it. And lastly reading other games code is a great way to get better at it so don’t hesitate.

Oh and you can learn a lot of things in the choicescript wiki

The link is: Choicescript wiki

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This is actually pretty similar to what I have so far! I still want to give the points system a try, mostly because I find the percentage system for relationships too distracting, but it’s good to know that I’m headed in the right direction. Thank you so much! :blush: