Animated object freezing where user clicks on a trigger...

May 02, 2014

I'm having a problem with my 'Back' and 'Next' buttons which I have placed a 'fly in' animation from the bottom of the screen.

I'm finding that if the user clicks a trigger to open another layer of the slide before the buttons have 'flown in' the stick at the bottom of the screen and the user has to click right at the bottom of the screen to click back or next.

Has anyone come across this and if so is there a workaround?

Thanks,

Louis

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Antony Snow

almost 10 years ago05/02/14 at 8:18 am (UTC)

Hi Louis,

Sounds like you have the setting 'pause timeline of base layer' applied to your layers. If you deselect this, the buttons should complete their animation even if the user opens a layer?

Antony

Louis Wilkinson
Author

almost 10 years ago05/02/14 at 8:56 am (UTC)

Hi Antony,

Thanks for your suggestion but no I don't have pause time line selected on any of the layers,

Any other thoughts anyone?...I've tried to upload the .story file but I seem to be having problems uploading to this forum...

Antony Snow

almost 10 years ago05/02/14 at 9:14 am (UTC)

Hi Louis,

It does sound strange that with the pause timeline of base layer option deselected, the animations on the base layer aren't completing.

Whilst I can't offer a reason why this is happening, I can offer a workaround:

Place a shape over each of the items that trigger a layer to be displayed
Remove the outline and make the fill 100% transparent so they act as a mask but won't be visible to the user
Place each mask at the start of the timeline and adjust their duration so they are only on-screen for the time it takes for the buttons to animate

Would that work for you?

Antony

Louis Wilkinson
Author

almost 10 years ago05/06/14 at 2:14 am (UTC)

Excellent workaround...thanks for that Antony...

Animated object freezing where user clicks on a trigger...

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