Parallax Scrolling in E-Learning #115: Challenge | Recap
How Can E-Learning Designers Use the Parallax Effect in Courses?
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OK, I have something to post :) I really wanted to do more for this; it's quite basic, but it works. If I have any time I'm going to have a crack at another one...
Once again, a gazillion thanks to all those who shared files, especially Ross Garner, and thanks to Michael Hinze for his great help!
http://www.storylinedeveloper.com.au/samples/Parallax/story.html
Once again, a gazillion thanks to all those who shared files, especially Ross Garner, and thanks to Michael Hinze for his great help!
http://www.storylinedeveloper.com.au/samples/Parallax/story.html
- Very Nice Veronica :)
- Thanks Ashi! I like yours too, it would make a great title page and chapter pages for an animated book
- Nice work Veronica, your clouds look awesome.I love the block look of the trees and clouds.did you draw the picture?
- Hey Julia, no, it's a vector image from a site and I separated the clouds from the buildings and background. My plan was to draw a car to match the style, but alas, I just ran out of time so I just quickly found any 'ol car.
- Julia, you've inspired me to take a few minutes to draw a car :) I also added a car sound effect, link updated
- I love that you can choose between moving the car, or the background, or the clouds. That's a clever bit that makes it even more fun.
- Thanks Charles!
- I've added a fourth slider of a bird flying with the car, but slightly more slowly, link above updated.
- Fantastic Veronica. Loved how you moved it from daylight to night and had a few things going on (sun in/out, moon in, car, sound, bird). Great animation.
- Thanks Daniela!
My car slider has 50 steps, so I added two triggers for the audio to play: play when the car slider moves and is equal to 1 (so as soon as car starts moving) and stop playing when the car slider is equal to 50 (so at the end). Then, to loop the audio I added another trigger to play the car sound when the car sound completes, on the condition that slider car is between 1 and 49.
So that worked fine, BUT, when I dragged the car back to the beginning, the sound would play again, even if I just left the car at the start without moving it. So, to ensure that the sound only plays when the car is being moved, I used a variable (which I named audio, I think) and added a trigger to toggle the variable audio when the car slider moved if it's equal to 1, and put it at the top of the triggers list. Finally, I added a condition to the first trigger (the play sound trigger) so that it would play sound when slider car moves IF slider car is equal to 1 AND the audio variable is equal to TRUE.
So this happens: car moves to 1, audio variable toggles to TRUE, car sound plays (because audio var is TRUE)... when you slide the car back and it goes past '1' the audio variable will toggle back to FALSE so the play sound trigger will not fire. If the user tries again, the audio var will toggle again to TRUE so the car sound plays again.
Hope this makes sense :) If it helps to see this, you can grab the SL file here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BysKZkRKOzlfNUltN3lyMEF6cVk- Thank you Veronica. That was very kind of you. I will look at it and your notes. I like how you wrote how it happens. I think this will really help.
- Love it, Veronica!
