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Jonathan_Hill
5 years agoSuper Hero
Hello! Hope you're all well.
Ever since the new 'Jump to Time/Cue Point' trigger went live, I've been investigating how it can be used to repeatedly change the state of an object to animate it like a GIF, with none of the drawbacks of a GIF.
This is more 'motivational' than 'educational', but with many of us currently on lockdown, juggling working from home and childcare, it feels like we're SPINNING PLATES at the moment.
Demo: https://bit.ly/elhc275
Download: https://bit.ly/elhc275dl
Ever since the new 'Jump to Time/Cue Point' trigger went live, I've been investigating how it can be used to repeatedly change the state of an object to animate it like a GIF, with none of the drawbacks of a GIF.
This is more 'motivational' than 'educational', but with many of us currently on lockdown, juggling working from home and childcare, it feels like we're SPINNING PLATES at the moment.
Demo: https://bit.ly/elhc275
Download: https://bit.ly/elhc275dl
- NickRussell5 years agoCommunity MemberNice one Jonathan. Very engaging and great design.
- DaveLeFevre-7a15 years agoCommunity MemberSo you're looping back to the beginning of a series of state changes to create ongoing animations? That's a cool application I hadn't considered yet for the new trigger. Time to try that one out!
- Jonathan_Hill5 years agoSuper HeroThanks Dave, yep, that's pretty much it.
Each plate is controlled by its own layer, which loops back on itself to repeat the state changes until each plate falls. There's also a True/False variable tracking which plates have fallen, which means those plates/animations don't appear on subsequent questions.
I'm still tidying up my master file but will share it shortly.
- JodiSansone5 years agoCommunity MemberThis is really fun. I just felt like crashing plates today. My first time through I got all the answers right so I had to go back and make them crash!
- Jonathan_Hill5 years agoSuper HeroI've felt the same this week Jodi. Stay well!
- Samuel5 years agoCommunity MemberIt certainly feels like it. Great analogy and perfect execution! I've just learned about the new updates. Thanks for sharing.
- AndrzejJaboski-5 years agoCommunity MemberThat's true, tha analogy is great! Nice idea with looping a timline with a new trigger :)
- RemaMerrick-aa05 years agoCommunity MemberFun concept with breaking the plates.
- LisaSpirko-39765 years agoCommunity MemberGreat concept! Although, I found that once I broke a plate early on, I couldn't get any more answers correct because they wouldn't display if their plate was gone.
- Jonathan_Hill5 years agoSuper HeroHi Lisa - thanks and, yep, that's deliberate. Every incorrect answer limits your choices for the next question - including, sometimes, by eliminating the correct option.
It's a 100% pass rate test skinned as a game of skill.
- SunetSullivan-75 years agoCommunity MemberGreat idea Jonathan, I'll have to take a look at this update, it's nice to see the features in action!
- Jonathan_Hill5 years agoSuper HeroThanks all. I've unpacked the design in a bit more detail here:
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better-courses/free-spinning-plates-quiz-with-animations-powered-by-the-new-jump-to-time-trigger - TreyMcNabb-f8db5 years agoCommunity MemberHey Jonathan, nice job! I always enjoy how you put your challenges together. Thanks also for having it in your blog, my firewalls won't allow me to go to tiny urls. I frequently will view your submissions from home just to see them.
One questions I have is what is the purpose of the 1st slide? I see the title is html5 load screen, then the trigger to jump to the next slide when the timeline starts. What does that do for us?
We're still coming to grips with updating courses due to end of Flash, so I'm still learning best practices with html5.
Thanks!- Jonathan_Hill5 years agoSuper HeroThanks Trey, glad you found the blog useful.
That first slide just enures the title slide loads automatically without defaulting to that (slightly unsightly) grey screen with the play button on it. Looks better and keeps the clicking next to a minimum.- TreyMcNabb-f8db5 years agoCommunity MemberOh ok. Thanks, I appreciate the insight.