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Harlowe: Stats with two definitions

guinevakguinevak
in Help! with 2.0
So let's say I want to track a character's various stats, and I want to represent one of them as a number that I can manipulate, and I also want to describe that one using a word, so that I can print something like:

Shirley's charisma is 2 (awkward).

And then later, when Shirley has completed four terms at charm school:

Shirley's charisma is 6 (likable).

What's the simplest/tidiest way to do this? I have been poking at datamaps and things and I cannot get my head around it.

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  • SharpeSharpe
    edited July 2015
    This may not help, but I know sometimes most of us can overlook the simplest ways to do things. Also, I may have read your question wrong, but it seems to me that you'r trying to get single a variable to hold two pieces of different information. I'd suggest either just making two variables or using a conditional branch. Here's an example of a conditional branch using a datamap like the one you described:
    (set: $Shirley to 
	(datamap:
    		"intelligence", 6,
    		"appearance", 4,
    		"charisma", 6
	)
)

Shirley's charisma is (print: $Shirley's charisma) (if: $Shirley's charisma >= 5)[(likeable)](else:)[(awkward)].

    If you put that in a passage and test it, I think it will do what you're asking.
  • guinevakguinevak
    Yeeeeah, it does work, just I have rather more descriptors than just two, and that gets clunky fast. I was sort of hoping there was a way to make the one variable depend on the other so I didn't have to have long conditionals all over the place, but if there is I can't wrap my head around it.
  • SharpeSharpe
    guinevak wrote: »
    Yeeeeah, it does work, just I have rather more descriptors than just two, and that gets clunky fast. I was sort of hoping there was a way to make the one variable depend on the other so I didn't have to have long conditionals all over the place, but if there is I can't wrap my head around it.
    Okay, then, yeah, set two variables. I don't believe there is a simpler solution, but I very well could be wrong.
  • guinevakguinevak
    Rats. Okay, thanks!
  • SageSage
    What about nesting an (either:) inside of that if @Sharpe ?
  • guinevakguinevak
    Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.
  • guinevakguinevak
    edited July 2015
    AAAAAH. I think I did it -- the new Harlowe release and/or a night's sleep saved me.
    (set: $chaScale to 
	(datamap: 
    	    1, "creepy", 
            2, "awkward", 
            3, "shy", 
            4, "presentable", 
            5, "pleasant", 
            6, "likable")
    )

(set: $Shirley to 
	(datamap:
    		"intelligence", 6,
    		"appearance", 4,
    		"charisma", 6
	)
)

Shirley's charisma is (print: $Shirley's charisma) ((print: $chaScale's ($Shirley's charisma)))
  • SharpeSharpe
    Hey, that's a pretty good idea! :-)
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