Can we run several animations over another running animation?

Hi Jeff,

Are you able to get this animation to work in PowerPoint at all or does the issue only occur when you publish your presentation?

You should be able to do this in powerpoint, I  would set the animations to with previous and then switch on the advanced time line and then you can move the with previous's along the timeline.  I have uploaded a very rough example here, it works fine on preview as well

Phil

Sorry to be so long getting back to you. Work buried me, then illness grabbed me.
I see what you're saying and with some fiddling I could make that method work, but what I  meant to ask was...

Does anyone know a way to control "on-click" animations so they run over and without interupting a series of animations that are already running in the background?

I have tried this as well using the "until slide ends" option in the animation settings. They, as you say, work fine in PPT, but when published, they do not due to the something in Articulate.

One way around would be to create the animation in flash, then import as a swf object on the slide. Of course, if you have text, that would have to be in the animation as well as you can't layer the swfs in PPT, they are always on top.

Thanks. You've reminded me of something I learned months or maybe years back.

I'll have to test the procedure to make sure I'm remembering it correctly, BUT there is a "post-publication" method of putting an animated SWF on the background and running text and other stuff over it. I cannot take credit for inventing it tho', I'm pretty sure the technique came from one of the major Flash gurus on this forum, but I cannot recall who it was.

As I recall the procedure. You make a Master Slide that you will use only for the slide on which you want to put the background animation, and get out of Master Slide view. You create a slide using that Master Slide as a base (in slide view it is called a "Layout"). Create and time all the "on-click" animations you want to run over the animated background. Publish, then replace the published "layout" swf FOR THAT SLIDE (figuring which one it is, is tedious but not hard) with a previously prepared swf of the background animation. Then, when you play the published slide the "on-clicks) play over the background and life is wonderful. That's the gist of the process anyway.

Like all "post-publication" modifications, you have to do this one over every time you republish. 

I think I'll try this on this project.

Thanks for the memory jog....

JP

Articulate does not support animations on the master slide...

So when you publish with articulate, this solution will not work anymore,

I don't have a better solution, other then creating the animation in flash and then importing as SWF object, as Dwayne suggested. Just wanted to save you the time fiddling if not too late.

This does not put an animation on the Powerpoint Master Slide. It replaces the PUBLISHED background slide (named in the form "bgd1l13.swf") with an appropriately sized SWF animation made outside Powerpoint and renamed the same as the background swf being replaced .

If I remember the blog on which I first read this technique, I will post it, but this really does work. It is just a pain in the tush to do.

JP

PS I REMEMBERED - It was the redoubtable Dave Moxon. Take a look at
http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2008/05/24/how-to-create-a-background-animation-for-articulate-presenter/

Wow awesome, I stand corrected.

Thanks for the tip, might come in handy!