Dara Amarie's Official Help Thread! [closed]

[Bridi]

how do you change a characters opacity?

[ioanna]

hello Dara, I was wondering what would CHARACTER<1 mean in the if elif else method?

[classicality]

Hi Dara, I have a bit of a problem. When the reader chooses the dress Casually crowning, they should get a message that pops up saying ‘You decided to impress your mother’. Instead, this pops up

Just wondering if you could help me find out how to make it display the right message.

Here’s the coding

@CHARMAGNE spot 1.280 147 8
CHARMAGNE (think_rubchin)
(What do I want to wear?)

choice (DRESS1)
“Casual crown” {
@CHARMAGNE changes into CasualCrown

@CHARMAGNE is primp_neutral

    CHARMAGNE (talk_excited_happy)
Nice!

    CHARMAGNE (talk_agree_happy)
Mom would approve.

} “Rebellious royal” {
@CHARMAGNE changes into Rebellingroyal

@CHARMAGNE is primp_neutral

    CHARMAGNE (talk_excited_happy)
Awesome!

    CHARMAGNE (talk_primp_neutral)
I'm totally rocking this crop top!

    CHARMAGNE (talk_think_neutral)
And Sydney would love that I took her advice.

} “Pretty princess” {
@CHARMAGNE changes into Perfectprincess
@CHARMAGNE is primp_neutral

    CHARMAGNE (talk_excited_happy)
Wow!
    CHARMAGNE (talk_armsraised_neutral)
The paparazzi would love to see me in this.

}

    CHARMAGNE
Do I want to wear this one?

choice
“It’s perfect!” {

if (DRESS1 is “Casual_Crown”) {

readerMessage You chose to impress your mother.
@CHARMAGNE is primp_neutral

} elif (DRESS1 is “Rebellious royal”) {

readerMessage You chose to impress your friends.
@CHARMAGNE is primp_neutral

} else {

readerMessage You chose to impress the paparazzi.
@CHARMAGNE is primp_neutral
}

} “No, I want to try on the others!” {
goto dressing_game_1
}

    CHARMAGNE (breathe_deep)
(Perfect)

    CHARMAGNE (think_rubchin)
(I should probably say goodbye to mom before I leave)

[Dara.Amarie]

The option name in the if statement needs to match exactly like the option name in the choice.

choice (DRESS1)
“Casual crown” {

if (DRESS1 is “Casual_Crown”) {

[Bridi]

hi dara would you be able to tell me how to change a characters opacity

[Dara.Amarie]

It’s not possible to change a character’s opacity.

How to "FADE" Characters

[Bridi]

thanks

[Bridi]

hey sorry to be a pain but how do you make the screen shake?

[Dara.Amarie]

You can shake the screen by zooming in at random spots in the span of 0.1 seconds each

@zoom on ____ in 0.1
@zoom on ____ in 0.1
@zoom on ____ in 0.1
@zoom on ____ in 0.1
@zoom on ____ in 0.1

Or you can have the zooms on the same line using THEN if you want to shake the screen while another command is happening:

&zoom on ____ in 0.1 THEN zoom on ____ in 0.1 THEN zoom on ____ in 0.1 THEN zoom on ____ in 0.1

[FallenAngelNight13]

Hey Dara, I had a random question. Is there benefits to naming a choice?

[Dara.Amarie]

You can reference that choice in dialogue.

HOW TO: Remember Past Choices (if/elif/else)

You can use the choice name to reference what the reader chose in dialogue; just wrap straight brackets around the choice name.

CHARACTER
Today I had [FOOD] for lunch.

If the reader chose “Spaghetti”, then they will see:

CHARACTER
Today I had Spaghetti for lunch.

(but be warned that whatever option title is will be what the reader will see)
If the option title was “I want to eat Spaghetti!!”, then readers will see this:

CHARACTER
Today I had I want to eat Spaghetti!! for lunch.

[LitLegacy]

Ok I’m having remember choices problem

So here is what I have first

That’s what I have for other remember choices

And it ends up not showing but the other remember choices do show up except for one which is chose_Secert

So what am I doing wrong??

[Dara.Amarie]

The gain needs to go before goto

[LitLegacy]

Did that Didn’t work is the elif maybe??

[Dara.Amarie]

The last elif needs to be else by itself. But you need to move the gain on line 1166 to line 1163, because you won’t be able to gain that flag since the goto is before which it skips the gain.

[LitLegacy]

How do I do the else rather than elif??

[LitLegacy]

Is like this

} Else (chose_sexy){

@JADE changes into dress

}

[Dara.Amarie]

} else {

[FallenAngelNight13]

Thank you

[rogueallmighty]

There’s been this promblem with the text effects whenever i use it the text stays the same color im not sure if its only on the web previewer but i should also say there isn’t any error whenever i put in the code