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Keeping the selected state to build avatar
In Storyline 360, I'm working on building an interactive slide where the learner can build their own avatar/identity. I am having problems figuring out how to keeping the state that is selected, al...
Hi, Monica.
This is a great idea, and I am looking forward to the other suggestions our community members will give you!
My recommendation is to separate the choices (male, female, other) into slides. That way, you can have the avatar on the base slide, and the choices of skin/hair/etc., can be done on each layer.
If you don't want to separate the options into slides, I suggest tracking the changes with a variable. Once a skin color is selected, change the variable to that number.
On your next layer, you can set the state of the avatar to match the variable.
I also noticed you added the hair states to the same avatar that contains the skin color states. Since you can only have one state selected at a time, I would recommend separating those options into different objects.
I made that change for you, as an example, on your Male option:
Thank you so much, Maria. I apologize for my tardy response. I look forward to seeing if the community has other ideas.
