Character Creation - Select name from list

With my project, I'd like people to choose from a list of names, instead of having usernames like 'L33TP0WNA'..

I don't know if it still does, but last time I checked, Second Life uses this system, and you choose a first name and surname from 2 lists.

If a Python table (or would it need to be SQL?) were to be created, containing a 2 lists of names (forenames and surnames), how would I go about connecting that to the Character Creation screen, and then applying it to the character?

Just a sideline update, Second Life used to use that method, now you can use any name, and even link that to your old prefixed name

I stored the names in txt files and loaded it on start up.


Once they selected the two names I concatenated the string and set their name to it

Code:

def GetMaleFirstNames():
    names = []
    try:
      filename = ClientAPI.GetAssetPath("malenames.txt")
      nameInput = open(filename, 'r')
     
      for line in nameInput:
     names.append(line.rstrip())
    except:
      ClientAPI.Log("Error opening malenames.txt")
    return names

Delurin wrote:

I stored the names in txt files and loaded it on start up.


Once they selected the two names I concatenated the string and set their name to it

Code:

def GetMaleFirstNames():
    names = []
    try:
      filename = ClientAPI.GetAssetPath("malenames.txt")
      nameInput = open(filename, 'r')
     
      for line in nameInput:
     names.append(line.rstrip())
    except:
      ClientAPI.Log("Error opening malenames.txt")
    return names

Ok, and how do I go about showing a selectable [menu] in the Character Creation screen?

I presume it goes in one of the Character Creation files? (SampleCharacterCreation.py or character_factory.py)

yes you would put it in the SampleCharacterCreation and if you wanted to verify that the character name is valid you would have to put a similar one in character_factory.py but you would need to replace the ClientAPI.GetAssetPath with a different way to get the file
And you would need to remove the ClientAPI.Log