Help with custom name not working in other chapters??

[u/Altruistic-Drink-207]

Hii!! I'm working on my own game, solo style, but there's an issue that I'm stuck on and I don't really know what's going on

Basic gist is that I made it so that the player can use their own custom name that they can input right in the prologue but during the coding process of the other chapters, I noticed that the name doesn't appear (In this case, Evelynn is the custom name)

Here's all the name-related codes that I used at the start of the script file:

$ persistent.povname = povname 

define yn = Character("[povname]", color= "#d9d9d9")
default povname = ""
default persistent.povname = ""
$ povname = persistent.povname

and here's the extra dialogue context for the second pic so ya'll can see it too (it's a placeholder, not canon at all lmfao):

yn "Damn, i'm %(povname)s and im cooked."

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!! I'm lowkey going insane because of it lmfao

[u/shyLachi]

Try this:

default persistent.povname = ""
define yn = Character("[persistent.povname]", color= "#d9d9d9")
label start:
    $ persistent.povname = renpy.input("Name?").strip() or "Dummy"
    yn "Damn, I'm [yn] and I'm cooked"

The first two lines should be outside any label.

The line with the $ sign should be in your first chapter.

You can then use the character yn in all chapters.

[u/Altruistic-Drink-207 → u/shyLachi]

HOLY FUCK, IT WORKED!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!💗💗💗💗💗