MC_Name will not work when the player defines the name

[israelrbb]

When the user defines the name for the MC, the system cant compare d.who to MC_Name = "[mcname]"

Example:
define MC_Name = "[mcname]"

if d.who == MC_Name:
$ message_frame = "phone_send_frame.png"

So phone text shows up as both people being the responders.

[NathanGuilhot]

Hi! Thanks for the issue; it's a good catch!
That's because the "define" statement is only ran when the game is initiated; so when the player start a new game, and thus didn't yet choose their name.

Since the variable MC_Name is only used in the nvl_phonetext() screen, we can move the variable over there like this:

# line ~71
# The actual messenger screen
screen nvl_phonetext(dialogue,items):
    default MC_Name = "[mcname]"

    # ....

That should do the trick! Let me know if that work for your situation.

• Nighten

[israelrbb]

Thanks for the quick response.

Unfortunately this did not work for me, I think leaving the MC_Name in place and giving it a generic "MC" variable wont matter since the icon and layout should be the same,

[NathanGuilhot]

Hum... It's hard to tell what goes wrong without seeing how you let the user define their name; But I think I found something.
Is mcname a character or a raw string? If it's just a string you can directly do MC_Name = mcname. Renpy does data interpolation (aka replace what's in [ ] by the variable value) only in certain places; and apparently not when declaring a variable like this. So the code then try to compare the character's name to a string "[mcname]", and not the actual value of mcname.
That's my best bet, I hope it'll help!

[israelrbb]

Hi back,
My baby came in early unpectedly and had me put all my work on pause.
I also had to revisit the code and remember what i was doing.

Anyways im using a variable and defining the character as below:

$ mcname = renpy.input("enter name")