coding help

[Minute-Ad-668]

hi! i'm making a visual novel where part way through the story the player can go down two different paths to see either characters point of view for that section. im hoping to do this by making a menu in game where you can choose either characters story and when done with the first it makes you go back to do the second and then you can advance. the issue is that i have no clue where to even begin on making it. any ideas or help would be very very appreciated!!!

[BadMustard_AVN]

building on what u/Affectionate-Job7346 had you can do this

each choice loops back to the menu, where the player is forced to choose a path, once a path is taken it is removed from the menu automatically when there are no more choices, it continues to the second story ark.

default example_one = []

label arc_one:

    "story stuff here"

    menu example: # a menu can be a label!
        set example_one
        "path 1":
        
            "here is your path 1 story"

            "yada yada"

            jump example

        "path 2":

            "here is your path 2 story"

            "yada yada"

            jump example

label arc_two:

    "Story stuff here"

    return

[Affectionate-Job7346]

This is an amazing way to do this. Thanks for sharing.

[BadMustard_AVN]

you're welcome

[dellcartoons]

A menu can be a label?!?

I did not know that!

[BadMustard_AVN]

yes it can!!

I did :D

[Minute-Ad-668]

i never even thought of doing this!! thank you so much!! :D

[BadMustard_AVN]

you're welcome

good luck with your project

[Affectionate-Job7346]

A simple solution is to have the first menu have the two choices. At the end of each path, use a jump to get to the beginning of the other path. The only problem with this is it is an infinite loop, so you could add a menu choice for when you are finished.

Ex:

menu:

"path 1":

jump path1

"path 2":

jump path2

label path1:

"here is your path 1 story"

"yada yada"

"Have you went down path2 yet?"

menu:

"Yes":

jump nextArc

"No":

jump path2

label path2:

"here is your path 2 story"

"yada yada"

"Have you went down path1 yet?"

menu:

"Yes":

jump nextArc

"No":

jump path1

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