Help getting a variable to display text instead of numbers

[Kes]

In my last game I used Todd's difficulty selection script.  For my new project I am, for various reasons, changing to Bloodmorphed's script, which can be found here.  I would like to repeat a mod made to the old script in the new one.  I set out below what happened previously in case that helps identify how to repeat it.

EDIT

Link to Todd's script http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/2789-difficulty-selection

I want to display on the save screen which difficulty selection the player had made (using yanfly's Save engine) and that requires a variable to display text instead of numbers i.e. Easy, Normal etc.

In Todd's script this was done via a very simple mod  which changed this (and also for the other 2 difficulty modes)

# * [easy] Command #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- def command_easy $game_system.todd_difficulty = 0 Audio.se_play("Audio/SE/" + TODDDIFFICULTY::SE, 100, 100) return_scene end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- # * [normal] Command #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- def command_normal $game_system.todd_difficulty = 1 Audio.se_play("Audio/SE/" + TODDDIFFICULTY::SE, 100, 100) return_scene endto this

# * [easy] Command #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- def command_easy $game_system.todd_difficulty = 0 $game_variables[TODDDIFFICULTY::VARIABLE_TEXT] = TODDDIFFICULTY::EASYT Audio.se_play("Audio/SE/" + TODDDIFFICULTY::SE, 100, 100) return_scene end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- # * [normal] Command #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- def command_normal $game_system.todd_difficulty = 1 $game_variables[TODDDIFFICULTY::VARIABLE_TEXT] = TODDDIFFICULTY::NORMALT Audio.se_play("Audio/SE/" + TODDDIFFICULTY::SE, 100, 100) return_scene endAs you can see, it simply inserts an extra line with the appropriate text into each section.  A line setting which variable is used is inserted near the beginning of the script in the editable section.

It may be that all the above is irrelevant to Bloodmorphed's script.  I have given it "just in case".

Long story short

Does anyone know how to get a variable to display in text which difficulty mode has been selected?

Thanks.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

If you saved a tezxt in $game_variables then you can use the escape code \V[iid] to show that in message boxes

 

[Kes]

But I don't want this in message boxes.  I need it to be stored as a variable so that Yanfly's Save Engine can pull it out and put it on the save screen.

I also don't understand what you mean by saving a tezxt in $game_variables.  What's tezxt? And how does that apply here?

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

It's a typo, it should be text... XD

You can use that same method im that script to save it in a variable... Showing it on the save screen is a different matter. Since ur using Yanfly's system which edits the save screen layout, you need to edit that one.. So a link to yanflys script is what's needed here

 

[Shaz]

You did not show the full text. There are constants used there that I assume have the values "Easy", "Medium", "Difficult", etc.


And the code you've provided only sets the variable (to text). That doesn't show where or how it's displayed.

 

[Kes]

@Adiktuzmiko

I do not need to edit Yanfly's script.  By default it takes designated variables and displays their values in the save screen.  If the value is text, it displays text.

@Shaz

I've put a link to Todd's script in the OP so that you can see where those sections come from.  

the text is displayed in the save screen.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Then whats your problem? Yanflys script shows a variable, and that script you have above saves text into a variable

Ahh you changed from Todd's to Blood's... Anyway just do what you did to Todds in Blood's script

 

[Kes]

I cannot just do to Bloodmorphed's script what was done for Todd's because Bloodmorphed's is quite different.  it does not have an identical layout and coding, therefore i have no idea where any alternation should go, nor do I know the exact coding to put in.

 

[The Infamous Bon Bon]

In the event used to set up the difficulty initially for the script you could use this in a script call for each:

$game_variables[n] = "Insert string here!"

where n is the variable you set up in Yanfly's Save Engine and the text is the appropriate difficulty word.

 

[Kes]

So simple, yet so effective.

I thought I had to do something extra to make a variable display text, and now I discover it will just do it.  That is so useful to know for other things

Thank you very much.