Animation in Storyline through the Morph Transition

Nov 12, 2018

Cameron Ward
By Cameron Ward

Some time ago, PowerPoint came out with a transition called Morph that literally morphs shapes, colors, strokes, graphics, etc. from one slide to the next. In other words, if you build a design on one slide, duplicate the slide, and make changes to the shapes on the second slide, the Morph transition will smoothly deform the shapes from the first slide to the next.

This transition is POWERFUL for animation. I feel that small animations of this kind are especially important for a product like Storyline. In a sense, the ability to build animations is one of the key features that I feel is missing from Storyline. If Articulate would consider adding the Morph transition to Storyline, it would allow users to animate the graphics on the screen with triggers, and I believe that would open up new worlds of possibility with Storyline.

Is this something you all would consider adding to Storyline?

249 Replies
Jerry Beaucaire
9 months ago07/25/23 at 11:01 pm (UTC)

First, my name is on the list of people who desperately want this feature.  I use PPT to create animations of words or images, record them, then use them in my Storyline, so I get it.  

But to play Devil's Advocate for a moment, in my opinion this MORPH transition request is unlike the other feature requests we make, which are often smaller extensions of existing functionality, or new functionality in targeted functions, like a new trigger parameter...

The MORPH transition, as I think about it, is a massive ask. 

  1. Currently, every slide is a standalone creation. To even create MORPH would mean first building a massive linking database of every asset, how those assets exist in all slides, positioning data, it would be a massive expansion just of reference data.
  2. Then, transitions currently occur as effect between slides applied to the prior slide last screen to the next slide first screen.  What we're asking for in MORPH is for the transition to be IN the slides. Maybe I'm wrong, but that sounds like a complete rewrite of the transition technology as a whole, another massive ask.

Just the first two points make it seems crazy costly to pursue programming-wise.  And add to that the stuff I can't imagine.  Phew.

 

Articulate, prove me wrong and show them it can be done, but I for one, much I as I'd love to get this feature, doubt it can ever come to pass.

Johan Greyling
9 months ago08/01/23 at 2:17 pm (UTC)

I am 100% supportive of a morphing function on a slide based presentation.

Scrollable webpages do work if you want your user to simply just read information and scroll through activities(web-style). And, I think Rise360 does a great job of that.


How-ever, we've found that if your training involves "Story-telling" with changing screenshots etc, Storyline "slides" are still the method of choice.   

Tina Dean
8 months ago09/02/23 at 12:25 am (UTC)

I think the only way we're going to get any traction on this is for everyone who wants it to add it as a feature request: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request

Otherwise, nothing is going to happen (it still may not happen, or course). I actually wonder whether it's simply not doable in Storyline.

 

Steven Benassi
7 months ago09/19/23 at 3:57 pm (UTC)

Hi Ivy!

Thanks for checking in on this!

I don't have any updates to share at this time as our team has been prioritizing other features. I've included your voice in the feature report and will update this discussion if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap.

For your reference, here's a closer look at how we manage feature requests.

Math Notermans
5 months ago11/29/23 at 11:03 am (UTC)

Articulate CEO talked a lot about transparancy. But the Feature List and whether things like this ever make it to that list or not and why not are still very obscure and intransparant ! Reading that Storyline 360 64-bit will be backwards compatible with the old 32-bits Storyline makes me think.... mmm... just making it compatible with 64-bit...nothing more...

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