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How to modify text based on where a player's been
Okay, this is probably the noobiest question ever asked on a forum. I apologize for that.
Basically, I'm trying to write my first story. I want certain options to show up or not show up based on what a player has seen and done. I've tried every command in the book for that; if, set, visited, all that jazz. However, no matter what I do, I can't get it to work. Either the text always shows up whether the player has done the thing they need to do it to get it to show up or not, or it doesn't show up at all. I just want to know what I need to do to get it to work, because all of my searching on the wiki hasn't done crap for me so far. Thanks.
Basically, I'm trying to write my first story. I want certain options to show up or not show up based on what a player has seen and done. I've tried every command in the book for that; if, set, visited, all that jazz. However, no matter what I do, I can't get it to work. Either the text always shows up whether the player has done the thing they need to do it to get it to show up or not, or it doesn't show up at all. I just want to know what I need to do to get it to work, because all of my searching on the wiki hasn't done crap for me so far. Thanks.
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(history:): This returns an array of strings. The strings are the names of every passage the player has visited, in order. You can use this array in the following ways:
to find out the previous passage the player visited was, use (history:)'s last.
To find out if the player ever visited a passage named "Lighthouse", use (history:) contains "Lighthouse".
Note: this macro may change in future versions of Harlowe to return more complex datamaps instead of just strings, providing more information about that passage.
Any use?
How do I set it so text shows up if a player HASN'T been somewhere? I tried using the 'not' command, but it just causes the text to not show up no matter what.