Animating zoom-out and zoom-in?

Stu

There may be a simpler way of doing this but I tend to:

1. Create a new state on the object - new state being a larger version of the original.
2. Create a trigger to change state when timeline reaches a certain time
3. Create a trigger to change state back to normal when timeline reaches a certain time (if you want this to happen)

Hope this helps!

Hey Christopher, 

Thank's for your suggestion... It kind of works, but because of the way Storyline is built, there's no motion tweening so it doesn't look a smoothing transition from large to small.

I didn't realise I could do that with states though ;) So thank you for the new tip!!!!

Hmmm, have you tried adding an entrance animation to the grow state?  Not sure what that would look like!

I tried it with an exit animation, but it either send the object off of the screen or completely shrinks it to nothing! :(

Hi Stu

depending on what happens after the object moves to the left - I.e if the slide is auto advancing...I create the zoom and move the timeline slightly earlier than when the zoom would finish so the object stays large and the slide moves on...haven't tried it going to smaller