Play different timelines when loading a scene

Hi community!
I'm relatively a beginner and I'm wondering if you could give me an advise on how to perform the following task. I haven't found a solution and now I'm not sure if it's possible to do.

We have a main scene on which the user decides to go to different mini games (scenes). Every time the user finish a game, he goes back to the main scene and it plays a timeline showing different components (audio, animation, quiz,..). The problem we have is that, we want to play a timeline (always in the main scene) with different components (other audio, animation and quiz) depending on the scene from which the user went back.

One way could be to have several timelines and play each depending on the scene, however I haven't found how to perform this action: load the scene and indicate which timeline to play in the main scene.

I'm wondering what could be the best approach to change the timeline we want to use when loading the main scene or if is there a better way to accomplish this task. I'm using Unity 2018.3.14.

Thanks in advance for your help and hope to hear from you!

 

Hello, I am interested in your question, because I have an entire scene duplicated many times and I'know it's not the right way to do it!

 

Thanks for your answer seant_unity! I'm trying to perform your suggested solution in a single scene and it seems to work, I just have a doubt on how to change the value of the static property, I mean, how can I change the value to the script in the main scene from the script on each scene, does the script in the main scene needs to be alive as with the DontDestroyOnLoad function? I guess it's a trivial question but how could the value of the static variable be changed from different scenes?

Thanks again for your help!

 

Thanks for your help seant_unity , we managed to make it work with your suggestion, FYI, basically we created a gameobject in the main scene with the following script on which we have the list of PlayableDirector assigned through the inspector and the variable to select the current timeline to play:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class TimelinesManager : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     public List<PlayableDirector> timelines;
4.  
5.     public static int currentTimeline=0;
6.  
7.     void Start()
8.     {
9.         PlayableDirector current = timelines[currentTimeline];
10.         current.Play();
11.     }
12.  
13.     void Update()
14.     {
15.      
16.     }
17. }

On every scene we have an event to load the main scene by setting the desired timeline to play beforehand:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void goHome(int timelineNum)
2. {
3.     TimelinesManager.currentTimeline = timelineNum;
4.     SceneManager.LoadScene("main");
5. }

 

I ran into a similar issue but my approach was different. We used one Timeline and swapped the Timeline Asset as needed.