Select character at start (by using vaiable)

Thanks Melwyn, always great to have another example here! 

I know this was a discussion from several years ago.  I am having trouble because I have three characters.  Has anyone tried this with three characters?

Hi Rebekah,

Yes, this will work with three characters! Simply follow the steps Diane outlined at the top of this discussion. 

If you get stuck along the way, we're here to help! You can share your file here, and we'll point you in the right direction. Since this is a public forum, you'll want to remove any proprietary information before attaching your file to a new reply.

Would be incredibly helpful if there was a way to set the state of the character to a variable instead of having to create multiple triggers on every slide. This approach becomes very cumbersome and hard to maintain. 

An ideal solution would be something like this:

Set state of Character = variable when timeline starts

The variable would be what the user selected at the onset of the course. This also removes any dependencies, e.g. if any of the states of the character asset are added or removed. Nothing else would need to be updated in the project because everything is tied to the variable that the user selected.

Faisal,

Programmers have wanted that ability for decades. As nearly as I know, no known computer language implements it in any way that is shorter than one IF statement per option.