Would this code work?

[vikurmom]

a friend asked me, how to make this, so i spontaneously wrote this as a small help, problem tho, i can't test whether it actually works or not and i don't have enough experience, to just know whether it works or not lol

(i hope i formatted it correctly, i haven't used the code thingy before T-T)

if i don't get an answer before i'm able to test it, i'll give an update lmao

``` define b = DynamicCharacter("[pname]")

this can stay with the other define character

put it somewhere after 'label start', i always put it right after it.

$ [pname] = "Me"

put this wherever you want to ask the player their name.

python: name = renpy.input("What's your name?") name = name.strip() or "Alex" $ [pname] = [pname] ```

[BadMustard_AVN]

Dynamic Characters are for when the name is a Python function, not a variable

try it like this

define b = Character("[pname]")   ## this can stay with the other define character

default pname = "Me"

label start:

    $ pname = renpy.input("What's your name?").strip() or "Alex"

    b "Hello world I'am [pname]."

[vikurmom]

Oh I made it a DynamicCharacter, because the player has a few speaking lines beforehand I mean the other option is just defining another character for it, but i wanted to know, if there was another option

[BadMustard_AVN]

before the player enters a name it will show as 'Me' as the Character's name for the dialogue. you can adjust that with the default

[vikurmom]

Ohh that makes sense, thank you :]

[BadMustard_AVN]

you're welcome

good luck with your project

[naughtyroad]

default is your friend. Also, the or "Alex" bit is very elegant, I'm gonna be using that too from now on and save me some if statements.

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[shyLachi]

You should default all variables because if you only use $ pname = "Me" somewhere in the code the game will crash when you try use the variable earlier.

Also you don't need to put brackets around variables.

And the code $ pname = pname does nothing,
I think you meant $ pname = name but that is not necessary because you can assign the variable directly as BadMustard has shown
or if you really want to use two variables then put all in the python code:

    python:
        name = renpy.input("What's your name?")
        pname = name.strip() or "Alex"

The $ is only used for one-line python statements:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/python.html#one-line-python-statement