RenPy : Get an image depending on variables

Question

I'm in the end of finishing a little game for friends made with RenPy and I'm having a hard time finding a simple solution to do the following.

At the start of the game, the player choose between a male or female character. The game is the same with both but some tests that depends on it but it's not important and it works.

The problem is that I want to write :

show hero normal

and get the image of the girl if it was the choice, or the image of the boy if he was choosen at the start.

I started to write a python function to do this but it looks wrong because there seem to be enough ATL language to do this, even if I can't find a way.

Any idea?

Answer 1

ATL doesn't have an if statement at the moment. You can use DynamicDisplayable for this - the code looks like:

image hero normal = ConditionSwitch(
    "male", "male_normal.png",
    "True", "female_normal.png")

I've added an ATL if statement to the list of things I'll add to Ren'Py in the future, since it really should be there.

Answer 2

Someone on this forum showed me that I could use choice in ATL :

image hero normal:
    choice( hero_sex == "man" ):
        "hero_man_normal.png"
    choice( hero_sex == "woman" ):
        "hero_woman_normal.png"

Not perfect solution but simple enough to solve my problem.