Second and third Name input

Hey. Does anyone know a Second and Third label for name inputs for the same chapter.

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For the naming input, you don’t need a label, you can just write (example):

NARR
What’s your name?

input What is your name? | What is your name? | Done (NAME)

NARR
[NAME] is a cool name!

#To add more naming inputs (examples):

input What is your name? | What is your name? | Done (NAME2)

input What is your name? | What is your name? | Done (NAME3)

Basically whatever is in the ( ) of the naming input would be the character’s display name. can read more here: UNDERSTANDING: Script + Display Names

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thats what i did for the first one. but i need two more in the same chapter and it says you cant use same label.

oh i see it never mind

read fast lol

#If you did:

NARRATOR
So… what’s your name?

label first_name_input

input What’s Your First Name?|What’s Your First Name?|Done(FIRSTNAME)

if (FIRSTNAME is “”) {

NARRATOR
You do need a name…

goto first_name_input

} else {
continue
}

#Then cut out (what have I crossed out):

NARRATOR
So… what’s your name?

label first_name_input

input What’s Your First Name?|What’s Your First Name?|Done(FIRSTNAME)

if (FIRSTNAME is “”) {

NARRATOR
You do need a name…

goto first_name_input

} else {
continue
}

#So then it’s just:

NARRATOR
So… what’s your name?

input What’s Your First Name?|What’s Your First Name?|Done(FIRSTNAME)

  • change FIRSTNAME to the display name you desire.

yeah that what I did.

I took this from the script templates on the side where it has music, animations, and so on.

I need a second one like this for the second MC

Avatar - Name Input {

    NARRATOR
So... what's your name?

label first_name_input

input What’s Your First Name?|What’s Your First Name?|Done(TAYLOR)

if (FIRSTNAME is “”) {

    NARRATOR
You do need a name...

goto first_name_input

} else {
continue
}

#}

label last_name_input

input What’s Your Last Name?|What’s Your Last Name?|Done(STONE)

if (LASTNAME is “”) {

 NARRATOR

You do need a name.

goto last_name_input

} else {

continue

}

NARRATOR

Is your name [TAYLOR] [STONE]?

choice “Yes”{

NARRATOR

You may continue on with the story!

}“No” {

NARRATOR

We’ll take you back to the start!

goto first_name_input

}

#You can just do:

label name_input

NARR
What’s your name?

input What’s Your First Name?|What’s Your First Name?|Done(TAYLOR)

NARR
What’s your last name?

input What’s Your Last Name?|What’s Your Last Name?|Done(STONE)

NARR
Is your name [TAYLOR] [STONE]?

choice “Yes”{

NARR
You may continue on with the story!

}“No” {

NARR
We’ll take you back to the start!

goto name_input

}

#Yes, the portal does have a built in naming input template.

Got it thanks. sorry new to this whole thing.

if (FIRSTNAME is “”) {
Replace this with:
if (TAYLOR is “”) {
Because you changed the input name to “TAYLOR” you must change FIRSTNAME to TAYLOR accordingly.

weird I checked my phone with everything and everything was fine. changed the name too

You tested leaving the input blank?

yeah

I fixed it though so lets see if it does anything. left that blank

if (FIRSTNAME is “”) {
Replace this with:
if (TAYLOR is “”) {
B

Hi, actually, it doesn’t really matter what’s there because it never gets selected. The if would only play if a reader doesn’t enter any name however when you’re naming a character, Episode requires you to enter at least 2-3 letters, from what I can recall (too tired to check rn but if you try yourself, you will see this occur) so else is always played through no matter what. Hence why the if and else for the naming input isn’t required, it can be removed. It is great for locking choices though.

Already linked this on this thread but if you go over:

You will see an “un-locking” typed in choices example below.

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that makes sense. I thought I read it right when I read that

I had a vague recollection of this, but since the if/else is part of the template I never bothered to double check lol. Makes sense though,

If Episode allowed you to leave the name blank and continue, then for sure, I agree, you would use TAYLOR instead of FIRSTNAME to stop the reader from continuing (so they would need to type in a name) but this isn’t the case.

Alright, so hopefully everything is cleared up :+1:

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yup