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Button to "return to where I was"
I'm relatively new to Storyline 360, though I'm not new to creating "choose your own adventure"-style games in other engines.
I've created the outline of what I want, but I've been asked to create a sort of "tutorial" scene that explains how to play. Rather than have this appear at the beginning, I thought it would be more useful to just have a button the player could click to bring them to the interactive tutorial scene from any part of the game.
However, is there any way for me to make a button that would return them exactly to where they were before, with all other values retained?
I'd set a variable to the current slide number. Then on the tutorial slide, I wouldn't set that variable. You could then set a trigger on the tutorial slide to jump to a particular slide based on the value of that variable, using a long if/else.
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Jump to previous slide?
If it were just one slide, maybe, but it's a whole "tutorial scene" that's basically the whole game in miniature.
I'd set a variable to the current slide number. Then on the tutorial slide, I wouldn't set that variable. You could then set a trigger on the tutorial slide to jump to a particular slide based on the value of that variable, using a long if/else.
Why make it difficult and increase the maintenance of you have to add a slide, build the tutorial on one slide. You can then return to where you left off with jump to previous. Or even simpler is to just light box the tutorial.
While the Return to Previous trigger likely does everything the OP needs, I didn't think I was making it difficult, you know. My solution provides the ability to return to any slide or even go to any slide, should the user want to back up a few steps. Regardless, there's no need for you to bother with my answer. You could have just left it alone.
