Advance Choices

Creator's Corner Directing Help & Tips
#1

Hello, I need help. Been studying the “All Directing Commands”, checking out forums but still can’t find a solution. This is my first story and I’ve come to the complex coding part. I’m already familiar with simple codings and directings…

Here’s my detail:
#1 Choices with 2 options
#2 Merge Branch (similar regardless if option 1 or 2 is chosen)
#3 Outcome of Option 1 (PS: To use labels or flags or?)
#4 Outcome of Option 2 (PS: To use labels or flags or?)
#5 Merge Branch (similar regardless if option 1 or 2 is chosen)

My questions:

  1. How to merge the branch for #2 and #5?
  2. As for #3 & #4 (I tried duplicating and insert #2 into #3 and #4) then use the goto and label but it doesn’t work. If my label is without brackets, the story will just flow from #1 all the way to #5. If I put brackets in the label, there’ll be errors like “Your label may not contain space” or " Unexpected BLOCK_BEGIN:{"

Kindly advice which type of directing to use and guide accordingly. Thank you in advance! :slight_smile:

#2

If I understand correctly what you need, there are two ways to do so

with gains

choice “option1” {
gain option1
#Here what happens for option 1
} “option2” {
gain option2
#Here what happens for option 2
}

#here what happens whatever choice you picked

if (option1) {
#here what happens if chose option 1
} elif (option2) {
#here what happens if chose option 2
}

#here what happens after, whatever choice you picked

naming the choice

choice (which_option) “option1” {
#Here what happens for option 1
} “option2” {
#Here what happens for option 2
}

#here what happens whatever choice you picked

if (which_option is “option1”) {
#here what happens if chose option 1
} elif (which_option is “option2”) {
#here what happens if chose option 2
}

#here what happens after, whatever choice you picked

#3

After some time trying, it works. Thanks… You’ve made my day!

Here’s my feedback… I tried with gains. The option 1 path is correct but the option 2 path is still option 1’s path. (The gain is correctly typed and bracket correctly placed). As for named choices, it works perfectly. Thanks again!

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#4

If you preview on the app, you need to reset the story progress because it remembers past gains

#5

I preview it in the website using laptop…

#6

That’s weird :thinking:

#7

Check your flags, and make sure that option 1 is unselected.

Summary

Gold = selected. Blue = unselected.
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#8

That’s okay :slight_smile:
I can use the alternative.

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#9

Will try. Thanks :slight_smile:

#10

Did it work?

#11

Yeah it worked. Thank you…

#12

Hello, I have another question. Can I insert simple gem choices in #3 and #4?
Because I got an error: Unexpected block end. The system failed to match the } for my earlier {

#13

So you’re missing a }. Did you find it?

Gem Choice
choice (choiceName)
< GEMS > “Gem Choice” {
} “Normal Choice” {
}

#14

Found it. The outcome for named choice option 1 starts at 732, where i place the { and ends at 1161 with }. In between that there are multiple scenes and another two simple choices inside.
Before I add in the two simple choices, everything was fine. Is it because there’s too many choices inside the named choice?

#15

After some fixing, everything is good to go now. Thanks for your assistance.

#16

Nope. I’m not sure if there’s a limit. But it’s just because you were missing a }, assuming it works with the same amount of choices in the named choice.

#17

you probably accidently deleted some bracket…you always have to have the same ammount of opening and closing brackets.

#18

Thanks.

#19

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