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Or maybe:

 

[FirstName] and [LastName] - Not sure.

<FullName> is the token for the full name (obviously) although I do think there are tokens for first name and last name. Of course doing <FirstName> <LastName> is redundant since there's already a token for it. ;)

 

But if you wanted like "Hey Joe, 'sup?" you could do "Hey <FirstName>, 'sup?", so you're not restricted to just "Hey Joe Schmoe!". We can't be formal all the time, eh?

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<FullName> is the token for the full name (obviously) although I do think there are tokens for first name and last name. Of course doing <FirstName> <LastName> is redundant since there's already a token for it. ;)

 

But if you wanted like "Hey Joe, 'sup?" you could do "Hey <FirstName>, 'sup?", so you're not restricted to just "Hey Joe Schmoe!". We can't be formal all the time, eh?

 

My mistake. Though I wasn't sure if <FirstName> and <LastName> existed.

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I'm not entirely sure myself (not at home so I can't check -- 99% certain at least <FirstName> exists) but I'm fairly sure they do. So you could do it that way if you really wanted to.

I think I remember testing those in game a long time ago, and they didn't work (I could be wrong though, it was a long time ago). They could still exist on KOTOR2 though.

 

<FullName> work's though. :p

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<FirstName> exists in K1, though for some reason it acted like <FullName> when I used it. ::shrugs::

Probably because the creature template for the PC has a FirstName field containing the entire name and a LastName field that is always blank.

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Probably because the creature template for the PC has a FirstName field containing the entire name and a LastName field that is always blank.

 

That did always bother me.

 

Why the devs did not make use of their own conventions is beyond me. :giveup:

What was the point in making that field to begin with if they didn't intend to use it? :doh:

 

_EW_

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As I recall, (and I may be wrong, it's been a while), TSL made proper use of <FirstName> and <FullName> when I used them to refer to Exile...somehow it figured out that the space meant the next word wasn't the first name. But my memory is sketchy on that so I might be mistaken...I probably am because I can't imagine Obsidian getting it right when BioWare apparently fumbled it.

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Nice to know my memory hadn't failed me (I've used <FirstName> a good bit in TSL but I hadn't played through it in a while). It does surprise me that Obsidian managed to get that right when they had so much of the work done for them already by BioWare when BioWare goofed on it...and Obsidian was pretty shameless about reusing assets from K1.

 

Silly it doesn't work in K1 though.

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