How do people get to customize their other characters? like let the readers name them and things of that?
Can someone walk me through it please? I am new so
How do people get to customize their other characters? like let the readers name them and things of that?
Can someone walk me through it please? I am new so
this thread should help you with customizing characters (copy and paste the templates into your story):
and this thread should help you with letting the reader choose their own name:
(iâm not taking credit for them, they werenât made by me, i just think theyâre both incredibly helpful and want to share them with you! theyâre both made by Dara Amarie)
I have one for creating the main character, but like their love interest i was wondering if there was a way that the reader could customize them as well as the love interests name?
thank you!
Yes, just use a male CC template
What do i make his name?
Like for when your customizing the main character its YOU & the display name is NAME?
Iâve never done this so im a little like new
input What do you want your love interestâs name to be? | What do you want your love interestâs name to be? | Done (LOVEINTEREST)
(or something like that)
when i make the male, like by going to characters on the writers portal, what do i name him? & what is his display name?
I would do a male cc layout that episode provides themselves but i dont want him to become the main character⊠so im a little nervous
you can let the reader customize any character you want, even if they arenât the same character. the episode templates for character creation makes it so you can only customize two characters of opposite genders, but if you use daraâs templates that i linked above, you can let the reader customize as much as characters as they want.
^ is that what you mean?
No no, i mean like this
Iâm VERY new to customizing characters, and i want this to look well for my story, so im definitely like, trying to learn how to make a male customization available, and how to code it when i need it
thank you for your help though and trying to better help me
you can make a character called âLOVEINTERESTâ and whenever he shows up, use @LOVEINTEREST in your script. like you did with the main character, change the display name to whatever you put the input as.
if you used this: input What do you want your love interestâs name to be? | What do you want your love interestâs name to be? | Done (LOVEINTEREST), then you would set the love interestâs display name as LOVEINTEREST. iâm not too good at explaining but i hope this kind of answers your question? basically just do whatever you did for the main character
Oh geez, I kind of understand, kind of donât since i used episodes template, BUT i will go ahead and make him a LOVEINTEREST & see where that takes me, since I have
the male wonât become a leading part, correct?
oh, iâm so sorry, i didnât know you were talking about that specific feature! are you writing in episode spotlight or normal display?
Normal display!
oh, okay. that makes this a lot easier to explain then
the main character feature is only for spotlight. if youâre writing in normal display, then this wonât bother you at all. when spotlight came out for ink/limelight, many people were confused with this. a mod or admin on here said that itâs for spotlight stories, so you donât need to worry about it if youâre on normal display. you can just leave it as it is
Oh, okay.
Thank you! that is good to know i was hoping it would go for my story but like the Main Character option but i guess it will just be obvious lol.
if you want your readers to know who the main character is, at the beginning of the story you can tell them with a quick message!
if you need any more help, you can ask me or other people on the forums, theyâre probably more helpful than me lol good luck on your story!
Thank you! currrently dealing with writers block BUT this was helpful
Hi @ryleighepisodes I have gone ahead and moved your topic to the Directing Help & Tips section of the forums since you are requesting directing help & tips. Feel free to review our forum tutorial which explains where to correctly create topics. Thanks a bunch