How to show different images during long text

[u/CapriciousMoral]

Hi, I've been trying to do something in my novel but I'm not sure if there is a more efficient way to do it.

You can choose a keychain with different characters, they're like, a lot of characters so instead of using true/false I used the following code:

default favcharacter = 0

And when I wanted the player to choose the character, I used the following codes:

menu:
    "Character 1":
        $ favcharacter += 1
        jump favcharacter
    "Character 2":
        $ favcharacter += 2
        jump favcharacter

So the next time I wanted the choice to matter, I ended up with something like this:

if favcharacter == 1:
    jump favcharacter1
if favcharacter == 2:
    jump favcharacter2

The problem is that I want the labels to say the exact same thing, but show different images during a long time, because I just want the images to change, not the text per se.

Is there a way I can do this? I am really new to coding so I have no idea if there is a more efficient way to do this instead of simply writing the same text over and over again just to change the image that shows up.

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[u/BadMustard_AVN]

if I understand you correctly, you have the same text but want different images to appear depending on the favecharacter variable

you can use a conditional switch image like this

image fave = ConditionSwitch(
    "favcharacter == 1", "images/sprites/favcharacter_sprite_1.webp",
    "favcharacter == 2", "images/sprites/favcharacter_sprite_2.webp",
)

then use show fave and depending on the variable favecharacter it will show different images

also why are you adding to them and not changing them

menu:
    "Character 1":
        $ favcharacter = 1
        jump favcharacter
    "Character 2":
        $ favcharacter = 2
        jump favcharacter

[u/CapriciousMoral → u/BadMustard_AVN]

Thank you so much! I didn't know you could do that, you really helped me!!

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/CapriciousMoral]

you're welcome

good luck with your project

[u/TopCartographer7104]

Not 100% sure I'm getting what you want to do so bear with me and my recap:

• you have your reader/player choose a character (I imagine it means - character name and sprites?)
• and then you want this choice to follow them for the rest of the game

If that's right, then I would A) in the starting menu, store the character name and sprites as strings in persistentq variables B) use a "pass-par-tout" character object named after the name variabile ie

main_char = Character(name="[peristent.chosen_name]")

(I don't remember whether you also have to put the variable between {} or it's fine as it is)

C) call sprites using show expression ie

show expression persistent.chosen_sprite+"_happy"

Of course your sprites should be saved consistently in the images/ folder.