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DanLidholm-48cd
5 years agoCommunity Member
My first time to participate in a storyline challenge (be nice to me :-)
Made this simplified and adjustable timer countdown or up.
View: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/20b9b5a2-0df8-481f-8f4f-98dc3968623e/review
Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A7b1QdAzoUEfCC7hegCr7mVbv4ZfgD6f/view?usp=sharing
Made this simplified and adjustable timer countdown or up.
View: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/20b9b5a2-0df8-481f-8f4f-98dc3968623e/review
Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A7b1QdAzoUEfCC7hegCr7mVbv4ZfgD6f/view?usp=sharing
- KentDarr-f56cf55 years agoCommunity MemberHi Dan,
Thanks for sharing. This was a really creative idea for a timer. I could definitely see using it for a load screen if I had media that took a while to setup, or changing the % value into an S value so that learners would see this in terms of seconds left.
That being said, I was a bit confused about how you set it up even after reviewing the storyline file. Can you help me to understand how you got storyline to continuously add (or subtract) 1 from the value of i? Just a cursory look at the trigger seems like that adding or subtracting event would only happen once on the slide rather than continuously.
Thanks for your insight!- DanLidholm-48cd5 years agoCommunity MemberHi Kent!
Sure! It's actually pretty simple.
For slide 1-2
Lets start with the variable, that named i. Set a start value, like 0 to count up from 0 or 100 if you want to count down from 100.
- The Base layer has one trigger in the start to show the Timer layer
- The Timer layer has two triggers
1. This one add or subtract 1 to variable i (that's counter value) when the timeline reach a specific point. (add will count up, subtract will count down)
2. Restart/loops the Trigger layer and stops the loop when it reaches a specific number. This trigger also contains the stop of the loop like in Slide 1 "if o is less than 100" to stop at 100" and in Slide 2 "If i is not = 0" for the countdown to 0".
For slide 3
Only difference here is that instead of the Timer layer I put the two triggers in the Master slide instead (also called Timer)
Slide 4
For slide you just change the value 0.15s in the two triggers to 1s. Then the timeline on the Timer layer will play for one second, subtract 1 from variable t, restart the timeline, play for one more second, subtract 1 from t again and so on.
And for the animation "circle". it's just a Dial that uses variable t.
Hope my explanation helps, let me know.
- AshiTandon5 years agoCommunity MemberLoved it. Thank you for sharing the file.