Character Generation (Help)

Hello and thanks for your help.

I want to give the player the option to totally generate their character, Name, sex, race, hair eye & skin colour, class, weapon proficiency (possibly), etc. Is this possible? Or am I wasting my time?

So far I'm just using a show choices script but I want to put the player of the game into the game to create a stronger connection to the story. I figure the best way is to let them make the apperance of the main character but as I have said I don't know how.

could you please help me?

Show Choices is the easiest method (no script required), and you can use the Change Actor Graphic / Change Actor Class / Change Actor Name ... commands to have a SINGLE actor take on all the options chosen.


For appearance, you would either need to use Show Choices and have available sprites for every possible combination that could be selected, or use a script to build a sprite for your character from all the parts available.


In fact, the recent Code Challenge was for a Wardrobe script, and I think at least one entry was very similar to the Ace Character Generator. Might be worth looking into. Search for the Code-off Challenge forum.

This is possible, and there are already several topics and tutorials discussing it.


Most variants use show choices (often combined with a script for more than 4 choices in a list) - there is no way around this, it is work to setup such an actor creation.


However, you need to provide the complete pictures for any choice in how the player looks - the game only supports a single file for face, it cannot compose that face from several files.


So you have to make a set of faces with all variants for colours, and then use choices to allow the player to select which face to use.

Excellent, thanks Shaz and Andar very much this helps a lot.