Choose Your Own E-Learning Characters #195: Challenge | Recap
An easy way to increase learner engagement is to give learners opportunities to personalize their learning experience. And lett...
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Hi everyone! This is my first contribution to a challenge : https://360.articulate.com/review/content/844fca39-939a-4e69-bd90-490a25236952/review
I'm still experimenting on the trial version and I tried to focus on how users could customize an avatar at their own image. It gets tedious with the increase of possible combinations and I haven't finished.
As my solution is based on layers that appear or not based on variables values, I was wondering if there would be a easier way to display the avatar in the module when the user is done creating it. I'm new in the Articulate community and open to every comments!
I'm still experimenting on the trial version and I tried to focus on how users could customize an avatar at their own image. It gets tedious with the increase of possible combinations and I haven't finished.
As my solution is based on layers that appear or not based on variables values, I was wondering if there would be a easier way to display the avatar in the module when the user is done creating it. I'm new in the Articulate community and open to every comments!
- Nicely done Benoit, good to have you in the challenges! You posed an interesting and challenging question. I'm not sure if this would work, but perhaps on any other screens where you'd want the finished character to appear, you could have the same trigger that you used on the main screen, if that makes any sense.
- Hi Benoit, there is always going to be a lot of set up involved for custom avatars. The easiest way to do it is to use states and triggers instead of layers.
Say, for example, you want users to select a hair style for the face. On the selection slide, you have pictures of all the hair options. When a user selects one, you use a variable to store their choice.
Instead of setting up a separate layer for each hair style, use one image of hair and add separate states for each of the hair style options.
You place the image with the states on all the screens where you want the custom avatar to appear and then use the variable trigger to change the state to the hair style selected when the timeline starts.
Hope this makes sense. Please let me know if you have any questions.
