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The game I'm currently working on features more than one player character talking to the same NPC.Ã,  Rather than rewrite entire dialogues just to change the name, I was wondering if there was a way to get the character's name?

Example:Ã,  Alice goes up and talks to Mr Flip

Alice: Hi, how are you?
Mr Flip: Hi Alice.Ã,  I'm fine thankyou.

The player then switches to Ben, who goes up and talks to Mr Flip

Ben: Hi, how are you?
Mr Flip: Hi Ben.Ã,  I'm fine thankyou.

(A/N: This example wasn't taken from the actual game ;D)

Instead of writing separate dialogues for Alice and Ben, is there a way of scripting it so that Mr Flip says, "Hi CHARACTER.Ã,  I'm fine thankyou."?Ã,  Please can someone help me with this?

  cFlip.Say("Hi %s. I'm fine, thank you.", player.Name);

Got it :D Thanks

You're welcome! :)

And:
If you want to use this inside an actual dialog, you'd use the dialog_request function.
Instead of writing e.g. flip: Hi Alice, I'm fine, thank you. inside the dialog script, enter run-script 1, then add this to the global script:

function dialog_request(int param) {
Ã,  if (param==1) cFlip.Say("Hi %s. I'm fine, thank you.", player.Name);
Ã,  if (param==2) cFlip.Say("Ok, see you later, %s.", player.Name);
Ã,  ...
}

Of course you can use this to give different responses, too.

Ã,  if (param==3) {
Ã,  Ã,  if (player==cAlice) {
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  cFlip.Say("Ok, what do you want to know?");
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  // unlock dialog options / give inventory items
Ã,  Ã,  }
Ã,  Ã,  if (player==cMeanie) cFlip.Say("I'm not talking to you.");
Ã,  }

The possibilies are endless ;)