Hi Forum,

I'm new to Quest and wondered if you could assist.

Is there a way to have a characters name learned, so that for example he is initially described as 'a man', but once you've learned he's called 'Fred' he's refered to as Fred...?

At present I'm thinking the only way to do this is to have two separate characters and the one replace the other once name is learned....

Oh and BTW I'm only using online version - no OS X version yet available....


Thanks.

hi, welcome to the forum. If you're using the web editor, I think using multiple characters might be the best way. You can't edit attributes or Quest Core library functions in the web editor, and those are the tools you'd need to do it in other ways.

The name you see for an object can be set by its alias. So define the initial alias as "the man" (disable the default prefix). Then when the player learns the character's name, set the character's alias to Fred (using a script).

Thanks for replies - I'm learning fast and they were most helpful.