Change Actor name based on variable (in script)

[Rubicant]

I'm having a little trouble getting this to work, and I'm sure I'm just not calling this right.

Basically, I want a variable to determine what to name my actors.

I have both versions of the names stored in arrays from constants set at the start of the script (in order of the ids they appear in the database from 0-11)

NAMES1 = ["Name1", "Name2", "Name3", "Name4", "Name5"]
NEWNAMES = ["NewName1", "NewName2", "NewName3", "NewName4", "NewName5"]

It's set up just like that for the arrays.

What I need is a call in the script (and where exactly I should place this call) that will read a variable, and based on whether it's 0 (original names) or 1 (new names), or a switch can be used with ON and OFF, change the actor's names to what is set in the array and vice versa.

I know this is easily achieved with events, but for me, this has to be done within a script (it's part of an options menu).

 

[Brewmeister]

I think this should do it. Test it out.

class Game_Actor

  

  NAMES1 = ["Name1", "Name2", "Name3", "Name4", "Name5",

            "Name6", "Name7", "Name8"]

  NEWNAMES = ["NewName1", "NewName2", "NewName3", "NewName4", "NewName5",

              "NewName6", "NewName7", "NewName8"]

  

  def name

    if $game_variables[1] == 1

      return NEWNAMES[@actor_id - 1]

    else

      return NAMES1[@actor_id - 1]

    end

  end

end

 

[Rubicant]

For some reason my reply didn't go through. Anyway, the code here didn't help, but after a while I figured it out with a friend of mine. Thank you Brewmeister, though, for always trying to lend a hand. Appreciate it very much.

 

[Brewmeister]

Hmmm, worked perfectly for me. do you have other scripts that modify Game_Actor? or that call $data.actors[].name instead of $game_actors.name?