Anyone found a use for the "Scribble" tool?
Mar 08, 2018
The "Scribble" tool is found under Insert -> Shape -> Lines -> Scribble. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it, which let's you draw a freeform scribbled line on the screen.
Question is, has anyone used it for anything in a final published version of a project?
The tool is hard to control while drawing and ends up looking very ragged and rough. No one I know who uses Storyline has been able to control it well enough to draw a line that looks like it could actually be used for a project. It's appropriately named "Scribble". So question is... does it have a use? :-)
Maybe it can be used to write/scribble a note on a screen that will be deleted later? Or to intentionally create a picture in the course that looks like a child's drawing?
The only things I've drawn and used in Storyline are custom freeform hotspots (which is it's own separate tool).
Hoping this brings up some insightful (and humourous) responses and stories :-) Not meant to be critical of Articulate's efforts in anyway, just genuinely curious of the "Scribble" tool's use!
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Hi Jay,
Once I used it to create custom button shapes for a game and shared it here.
Here is the page to download them; https://community.articulate.com/download/storyline-2-buttons-for-games
Very nice. Thanks for sharing! That's a good, and creative, use!
Nice, thanks for sharing that sun example. Seems like a good way the scribble tool can be used.
Just wondering: did you mean create each of the rays with the scribble tool? Or did you mean draw the approximate shapes with the scribble tool, then make the scribbled shapes transparent (so a learner could click on them for some interaction/trigger to happen)?
Also what did you mean by the scribbled shapes being accessible?
You can be more accurate by using a tablet with the scribble tool!
Sorry, I meant a graphics tablet, I use one from bamboo, this is the only time I ever pick the pen up to be able to use it.
Thanks Matthew, this does give some ideas on what the Scribble tool can be used for, and in what kinds of situations. I understand accessibility but just wasn't sure what you meant about how you used the shapes you made with Scribble.
Thanks Matthew and Phil for providing some insight on how you use the Scribble tool. Sounds like it can be useful for certain situations :-)
Personally, I've always opted for the "Freeform" tool because it lets you draw "point-by point". Depending on how many points you make a shape with, it ends up looking more smooth than the shape made with Scribble (for me anyway).
Maybe it's just my personal preference since Freeform is similar to the Polygonal Lasso tool in Photoshop, which I'm used to using for creating shapes / tracing around edges. Everyone has their own preferences.
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