They cannot be visited unless they are in the menu, or a trigger jumps to them. Set your "Jump to slide ..." triggers to skip them by using slide titles instead of "Next Slide".
So do I need to change the triggers on the slides that are being jumped to? They are still showing after the lightbox is closed and the player goes to the next slide.
Adding on to Walt's advice....Something I've been doing is to place my lightbox slides into a separate scene, all of their own. Just keeps them out of the way of the primary story flow, so if there are lots of them, its a little easier to keep them organised.
I'm confused. I'd need a simple step-by-step explanation on the lines of "On Slide 1, is a trigger to 'Lightbox slideA when user clicks'", to be able to understand it. Tell us what happens and what you want to have happen.
I'm wondering whether in some cases a slide you intend as a lightbox is next in sequence to a another slide that doesn't have anything to do with the lighbox. Side 37 ("basics of hamster anatomy") comes right before slide 38 (intended as lightbox-only "definition of aluminum foil").
If a trigger on 37 is "next button -> next slide," then you'll hit that definition without meaning to.
Over the years, in various packages for online learning, I've tried to avoid "X goes to next slide / Y goes to previous." Instead I make the link to a specific slide. (Prev: slide 14; Next,: slide 16).
If you do that, then you don't run into an accidental jump like the hamster / aluminum one.
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They cannot be visited unless they are in the menu, or a trigger jumps to them. Set your "Jump to slide ..." triggers to skip them by using slide titles instead of "Next Slide".
So do I need to change the triggers on the slides that are being jumped to? They are still showing after the lightbox is closed and the player goes to the next slide.
Adding on to Walt's advice....Something I've been doing is to place my lightbox slides into a separate scene, all of their own. Just keeps them out of the way of the primary story flow, so if there are lots of them, its a little easier to keep them organised.
I'm confused. I'd need a simple step-by-step explanation on the lines of "On Slide 1, is a trigger to 'Lightbox slideA when user clicks'", to be able to understand it. Tell us what happens and what you want to have happen.
Or ATTACH the .story file, or a video.
Kristi:
I'm wondering whether in some cases a slide you intend as a lightbox is next in sequence to a another slide that doesn't have anything to do with the lighbox. Side 37 ("basics of hamster anatomy") comes right before slide 38 (intended as lightbox-only "definition of aluminum foil").
If a trigger on 37 is "next button -> next slide," then you'll hit that definition without meaning to.
Over the years, in various packages for online learning, I've tried to avoid "X goes to next slide / Y goes to previous." Instead I make the link to a specific slide. (Prev: slide 14; Next,: slide 16).
If you do that, then you don't run into an accidental jump like the hamster / aluminum one.
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