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Changing a Character's Voicemail

Example files to look at: tutorial_5_coffee.rpy

Voicemail is part of a character's definition. If the program determines theree are no phone calls available for a character when the player phones them, it will automatically play the character's voicemail instead.

To update a character's voicemail, type

$ ja.voicemail = 'voicemail_1'

where ja is the variable of the character whose voicemail you're changing, and voicemail_1 is the name of the label where the voicemail call is.

Existing voicemails are defined in phonecall_system.rpy. They are written the same way as a regular phone call, though there are no restrictions on what the label can be called (but it's recommended you pick a descriptive name for it; probably including the word 'voicemail').

If you want to write a "generic" voicemail message, there is a character named vmail_phone that you can use to write the dialogue. Otherwise, you can use the characters' regular variables to write dialogue (e.g. ja "Some dialogue").