Adjust car's speed on the fly - can you guess how this was done?

I was playing around with some new ways to combine Storyline's functions and I think I came up with something quite neat.

Move the slider and you can adjust car's speed on the fly. Can you guess how this was done? :)

Click here and try for yourself.

EDIT: Source file uploaded for your curiosity. :)

slider_trick.story

18 Replies

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

4 years ago12/16/16 at 3:54 pm (UTC)

That's super cool Nejc ;)

Aaron King

4 years ago01/06/17 at 2:19 pm (UTC)

This is great. How did you do this?

4 years ago01/06/17 at 2:22 pm (UTC)

Hey, Aaron, I go into details at the beginning of the 6th episode of The eLearning Guys:

http://www.theelearningguys.com/6

Aaron King

4 years ago01/06/17 at 2:34 pm (UTC)

Thanks Nejc, you rock my friend! Much appreciated!

Tom Kuhlmann
Staff

4 years ago01/18/17 at 5:59 pm (UTC)

Great idea.

Not sure how I missed this post, but that's a pretty cool trick. I took a stab at how I'd do it. If I have time I may play around with an idea I mention at the tale end to have objects animated in and out and stop for closer review.

Here's a tutorial of the approach I took.

David Charney

4 years ago01/18/17 at 6:45 pm (UTC)

Awesome!

David Anderson
Staff

4 years ago01/18/17 at 7:39 pm (UTC)

Cool example and solution!

4 years ago01/18/17 at 8:40 pm (UTC)

Hey, Tom, thank you for the video, that was fun to watch. :) You are basically correct, of course, only difference is, I add the value of the second slider directly to the first slider (so instead of add 1 to slider 1, the trigger is add Slider 2 to Slider 1).

There is another trick for smooth movement of the car that I use, which is using two objects looping instead of just one, so the second one starts at 0.05 sec, and then they interchange and you get a counter every 0.05 sec instead of 0.10 sec.

If you want to hear me go into details, I explained this at the beginning of the 6th episode of The eLearning Guys:

http://www.theelearningguys.com/6