Shape anchor point

Hi Stephanie,

I'd love to let our team know about this idea, and I'm curious to know more. Would you mind telling me a little more about why an anchor function would come in handy for you? What type of scenario would you use it in? 

Thanks so much for letting us know how we can make things better!

Hi Alyssa,

I'd like to animate an object in a particular way (similar to grow object from left but keeping the anchor point locked). Also would be useful to pivot animate an object. 

Thanks,

Thanks really helpful to know, Stephanie. Thank you!

Hi All

Has any update been on made on anchor points? Thanks!

Hey Stephanie,

I agree this would be a great feature, but unfortunately it's not a thing as of yet.

If you really need to achieve this kind of effect though, you can group the object you wanted animated with a no-fill/no-outline box, and increase the size/position of the invisible box so that it offsets the 'centre' point of the whole group. Then apply the animation effect to the whole group itself.

Hi Stephanie,

No updates to share yet, but you are subscribed to this conversation which means as we share updates here, you’ll automatically be notified.

Please let me know if I can help with anything else. 

Thanks, Ben for sharing that idea too. 

Would also love this functionality! Many of our clients are wanting to do more with Storyline's animation features, but this limits us in what we can do. I"m going to try out Ben's idea in the meantime. Thanks!

Hi Marie,

Thanks for reaching out and letting us know that you'd like to see this feature as well. 

I'd love to understand what features you would like to see and how adjusting the shape anchor point would help you as well.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Glad that this conversation was able to help you, Nicole. I appreciate you popping in to share.

Morning Leslie,

Has there been any movement re: pivot point animation?

Having to deal with a lot of schematic type work it would be great to have this feature, for example, if you have lines growing out of a certain point to another, it would be really handy to shift a "groups" pivot point to the emitting side. Then the grow animation would give the impression that the line is growing from the correct location.

I hope this makes sense, After Effects / Adobe Animate have these features which make them great for this kind of work. But having it native to Storyline (SL) would be fantastic then content can remain in SL.

Cheers

Scott

Hello Scott,

I do not have an update on this feature request. 

I do appreciate you sharing your thoughts and how you would use this option. I've created a feature request on your behalf to reflect this.

You are always welcome to share your ideas directly with our team here.