Help with Menus and "Back" button

AreionForest

Using the StoryMenu passage, I want to make the player's inventory be accessible to view at any time during the story without having to display it in every passage or making a link to it in every passage. I also wanted to ask if there's a way to make a "back" button in that inventory, so that they are instantly returned to the most recent passage they were in no matter where they are in the story. I download the most recent version of Twine if that helps.

I'm sorry if there might be a topic like this before, and if there is, I'd appreciate to be linked there. Thanks to anyone who can answer my question.

TheMadExile

(Always state the story format you're using, because they do differ in capabilities and features.)

There are several ways in which you could make a link that would return you to the last non-menu passage, however, doing it automatically via tags is probably easiest.

AreionForest

TheMadExile wrote:

(Always state the story format you're using, because they do differ in capabilities and features.)

There are several ways in which you could make a link that would return you to the last non-menu passage, however, doing it automatically via tags is probably easiest.

Thank you very much for the help! Sorry if my reply is a little late. May I also ask another question? When describing a room, is it possible to have a varying descriptions chosen at random? Let's say the room has blue wallpaper, but when a player enters, the description changes at random every time the player re-enters like; "The wallpaper around this room is [blue, red, or yellow]"

Thanks again for all the help

TheMadExile

(ALWAYS STATE WHICH STORY FORMAT YOU ARE USING, BECAUSE THEY DO DIFFER IN CAPABILITIES AND FEATURES.)


This will select a random color for the wallpaper every time:


The wallpaper around this room is <<print either("blue", "red", "yellow")>>


If you really need it to always be blue the first time, then change randomly afterwards, try this instead:


The wallpaper around this room is <<if visited() is 0>>blue<<else>><<print either("blue", "red", "yellow")>><<endif>>


Docs:

• Vanilla formats: <<if>> macro, <<print>> macro, either() function, & visited() function
• SugarCube:  <<if>> macro, <<print>> macro, either() function, & visited() function