Animating an Object / Shape using the 'Swirl' animation

Hi Tony

Flash and other such animation tools would do this ... as would creating an animated GIF (provided the colour palette is okay).

Thank you, I will need to investigate the options you gave me.

Another option would be to create the desired animation in PowerPoint and export as a video file. You could then import the video into Storyline and trigger on a hover state.

I need the centre to be transparent., I presume the PPT option wouldn't work?

I can't remember if PPT's video output is transparent.  I know this works fine if you have Studio and use that to create a single slide SWF (which you embed as Flash in SL).

Re animated GIFs, check out Photoscape.  Once again, I can't remember if it handles transparencies though.

I see this thread is very old and you probably have what you need, but here is something that might generate what you want, including the transparency.

http://preloaders.net/en/search/7/spinning

Hi Barb! Thanks for popping in to share :)