Twine Version: 2.7.0
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Hello,
My question is, I want Passage A to display new text if the Player moves from Passage A to Passage B, and back to Passage A again. And I would like that text to change depending on which visit the Player is on.
1st time at Passage A: “This is your first time here.”
2nd time at Passage A: “This is your second time here.”
3rd time at Passage A: “This is you r third time here.”
etc.
I worked out a way to get the text to change once by having Passage A check to see if a variable was true, and toggling that variable to true in Passage B. But I can’t find a way to go beyond that. Is this possible?
Thank you. This worked, except that it treats the second visit as though it is the first also (I get the same text back on visits 1 and 2). Meaning, I see it the first time I visit, then move to a new passage, return to this passage and I see it again. Each subsequent visit does seem to count the way I would expect.
(if: visits is 1)[You see a $adjective $citizen. They appear quite distressed. Clearly in need of help, they try to stop someone, anyone, but no one seems to have time for them. Perhaps you could help?]
(if: visits is 2)[You go back to people gawking. This time you spot a $adjective $citizen, also in need of assistance.]
(if: visits is 3)[This is a test]
}```
Does it matter that all paths back to this passage refer to this passage through (display: "test passage")?
Because the visits related conditional expressions are Mutually Exclusive (eg. only one of them can be true at any time) the 2nd and later (if:) macro calls in the set should be replaced with (else-if:) macros.
The following Twee Notation based example has the behaviour you asked for. Each of the first three visits to Passage A will show a different message, the forth and later visits will show no message.
:: Start
[[Passage A]]
:: Passage A
{
(if: visits is 1)[This is your first time here.]
(else-if: visits is 2)[This is your second time here.]
(else-if: visits is 3)[This is your third time here.]
}
[[Passage B]]
:: Passage B
[[Passage A]]
Does it matter that all paths back to this passage refer to this passage through (display: “test passage”)?
The (display:) macro includes the contents of the referenced ‘child’ Passage inside the ‘parent’ Passage that calls the macro.
The visits keyword/variable represents the number of times a Passage has been visited, not the number of times a Passage has been displayed inside another Passage.
My bad! Somehow it worked on my system. When I worked in AXMA the visits were not cumulative so ‘visit 2’ did not flag true on <<if visited() = 1>> (which is AXMA format very similar to Sugarcube.)
