Problem With Variables

[PhantomJedi]

I am trying to create an option so that the player can choose the gender of their character, and that the choice will affect how the character is referenced, i.e. she/he, her/him, etc. I have tried various coding methods, but they all yield the same result: the character is always referenced as female. Here is my code:

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		[message]
			speaker=narrator
			message= _ "What is your character's gender?"
			[option]
				message= _ "Female"
				[command]
					[set_variable]
						name=gender_0
						value=0
					[/set_variable]
				[/command]
			[/option]	
			[option]
				message= _ "Male"
				[command]
					[set_variable]
						name=gender_0
						value=1
					[/set_variable]
				[/command]
			[/option]
		[/message]
		[if]
			[variable]
				name=gender_0
				value=0
			[/variable]
			[then]
				[set_variable]
					name=gender_1
					value=0
				[/set_variable]
			[/then]
			[else]
				[set_variable]
					name=gender_1
					value=1
				[/set_variable]
			[/else]
		[/if]
      [if]
			[variable]
				name=gender_0
				value=0
			[/variable]
			[then]
				[set_variable]
					name=subject_0
					value=she
				[/set_variable]
				[set_variable]
					name=subject_1
					value=She
				[/set_variable]
				[set_variable]
					name=object
					value=her
				[/set_variable]
			[/then]
			[else]
				[set_variable]
					name=subject_0
					value=he
				[/set_variable]
				[set_variable]
					name=subject_1
					value=He
				[/set_variable]
				[set_variable]
					name=object
					value=him
				[/set_variable]
			[/else]	
		[/if]

If I change the code to two separate [if] [then] clauses instead of an [if] [then] [else] clause, the character is always referenced as male. I posted the most unnecessarily complex version of the code I have written. My reasoning behind trying it this way was that the game might like numerical variable values better than text values. The other, seemingly redundant variable that is defined is used to modify the player's gender in a [modify_unit] tag, which I did not post, as it is not the concern at the moment.

[8680]

value is not a valid comparison key to use in [variable]; try using equals instead.

Also, what is the point of the gender_1 variable? As far as I see, it is the same as the gender_0 variable.

[iceiceice]

So I think the problem is that in the if statment you have

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[if]
   [variable]
        name = gender_0
        value = 0
   [/variable]
...

when you should have

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[if]
   [variable]
        name = gender_0
        equals = 0
   [/variable]
...

I find that this syntax is much less confusing if you use macros. The way I would write the above block is

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    [message]
         speaker=narrator
         message= _ "What is your character's gender?"
         [option]
            message= _ "Female"
            [command]
               {VARIABLE gender_0 0}
            [/command]
         [/option]   
         [option]
            message= _ "Male"
            [command]
               {VARIABLE gender_0 1}
            [/command]
         [/option]
      [/message]
      {VARIABLE gender_1 1}
      {VARIABLE_OP gender_1 sub gender_0} 
# The prevoius two lines set gender_1 to 1 - gender_0, the opposite value
      {IF_VAR gender_0 equals 0 (
            [then]
                {VARIABLE subject_0 "she"}
                {VARIABLE subject_1 "She"}
                {VARIABLE object "her"}
            [/then]
            [else]
                {VARIABLE subject_0 "he"}
                {VARIABLE subject_1 "He"}
                {VARIABLE object "him"}          
            [/else]
      )}

The most useful macros to know are probably {IF_VAR}, {VARIABLE_CONDITIONAL}, {VARIABLE}, {VARIABLE_OP} and I guess {FOREACH} comes in handy sometimes.

[PhantomJedi]

Thank you very much for your help! I shall try to learn how to use the macros.