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Coding a character creation sequence
Hi,
I want to start my story with the option for players to decide what their character looks like. At the end of this, I want to have a passage that says something like "You look in the mirror and see a woman with brown hair and hazel eyes.", with the options filled in for what they chose.
How can I code this? I'll need to assign multiple options to variables for gender, eye color, and hair color and then have the game remember what the player chose. using (print: ) just made everyone a nonbinary person with blonde hair and blue eyes.
I have never coded anything before, so simple explanations are appreciated!
I want to start my story with the option for players to decide what their character looks like. At the end of this, I want to have a passage that says something like "You look in the mirror and see a woman with brown hair and hazel eyes.", with the options filled in for what they chose.
How can I code this? I'll need to assign multiple options to variables for gender, eye color, and hair color and then have the game remember what the player chose. using (print: ) just made everyone a nonbinary person with blonde hair and blue eyes.
I have never coded anything before, so simple explanations are appreciated!
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Maybe you can find an answer to your question here.
I like to use cycling links to set a variable for this, although if you want to give many options, there are probably better methods. I found the code for this here:
https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/5020
And further down on that page is also a link for CSS options for the effect you want.
A basic example for the code I have would be (Will not work without the JavaScript, will work without any CSS):
WARNING: The code on the glorious trainwrecks website was written for the story formats that came pre-installed with Twine 1, do not use them with SugarCube.
The SugarCube specific version of the <<cyclinglink>> macro add-on can be found in the Downloads - Add-ons section of either the SugarCube 1.x website or the SugarCube 2.x website.