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Say you have ten different characters and you need different health bars for all of them but you don't want them to be all shown at the start of the game. You want them to be shown at the page where the characters are introduce. How do you do that? Anyone knows? 

You'd have to be more specific with what you mean, but you can show the health of character only on certain pages with scripting.

How do you do that?

If you have a variable called "HEALTH", then do this on the page you want it to appear:

%%HEALTH%%

And when the person reads your story, they'll see the number health is, rather than %%HEALTH%%.

There's other ways as well, but without you say exactly what you want, I won't bother listing them all (since they might be all you need).

Thanks. 

Also, is there a way for the number to appear elsewhere, other than in the lower left hand corner of the story with the other variables?

If you're using the "Show variable on all pages" checkbox, then no you cant change that.

If you're not, is it possible, and if so, how do you do it?

With the way I just showed you. Wherever you put %%HEALTH%% on your page is where the actual number will show up.

I see, also, when you check the box shown on all page, is there a way to organize the variables, so that health, and mana shows up at the top as oppose to being shown in alphabetical order? So that certain variables can be organized to be shown at the top, and not be in alphabetical order?

To my knowledge there's no way to do that, no.

Okay, that was pretty nice actually.

Now, is there a way to make it so that every time your strength is increase, your health increase along with it?

I just tested it, and the change was only along the lines of the first page, as the first original strength is 5, I made it time 10, so my health is 50. Then I added 25 strength, so it went up to 30 strength, but that did not make my health go up to 300.  My health stayed at 50.

Like Killa said, you can do that using %%VARNAME%% instead of checking the display on all pages box.

But then if I want health to be shown on all page, then I would have to script %%Health%% on every single pages?

Is there a shortcut?

Put in global page script:

$PAGETEXT=$PAGETEXT+"<br>%%MANA%%<br>%%Health%%"

The <br> is needed for newlines.

Thanks!

That was awesome.

Well, actually I got a error message after posting that.

Did not expect '='. Col=10

The syntax is :=

(not =)

I tried it. 

It showed up on the story game as 

%%HEALTH%%

and

%%CHAKRA%%

Also tried just putting %%Health%% itself on the global page script. It shows up error as

Did not recognize '%%'.

%%VARIABLE%% Go directly on the Pages with the text, you cannot use them in Scripts.

In Scripts, the Variable would be %VARIABLE.

I tried using %VARIABLE in the global page script.

I got error

Did not expect '(EOF)'. Col=8

Do you actually have a variable called %VARIABLE?

No, but I do have a variable called %HEALTH.

I didn't actually type %VARIABLE. 

What is error EOF?

Usually stands for End Of File. Basically means you're missing something that it's expecting.

What am I missing?

I tried typing in %HEALTH in the global page script, and the error came out like that. 

Who knows.

You'd have to copy and paste it here for us to tell.

It looks something like this.

...

I can't paste my print screen here.

I went to the script for global pages, I type in the script  "%HEALTH" and clicked validate, and the error message came up, that says 

Did not expect '(EOF)'. Col=8   

Yes, I do have a variable name HEALTH. 

You can't just type in the variable. It's not a complete script. This may work:

$PAGETEXT := $PAGETEXT+%VARIABLE