Characters in States
Apr 16, 2018
I'm using characters in my project and would like to use states to change the position of my character. The character I chose is facing to the left and I need her facing to the right. Not a problem, I just went into Photoshop and rotated her and saved the file. but, if I put that saved file in as one of the States, it puts it back to facing the left and you can't rotate a state graphic. Any ideas?
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Hi Kathy
can you share the slide so we can see what's happening.
Sorry, I thought I did. Here it is.
Hi Kathy
i've looked through the triggers and I can't see where you are changing state of PicSue can you let me know when that happens?
I haven't set any triggers yet. Was just trying to get the picture turned in the right direction.
Here I've added some triggers.
Hi Kathy
I used the Rotate Flip Horizontal to change her to facing to the right. I've attached the updated file.
Well thank you. When I tried it here before sending the question in, it didn't have the Rotate available, it was greyed out.
Well Wendy, My Storyline 3 still didn't let me change the rotation on those pictures. But, I copied the image from the file you sent and used it in my file and it works fine. Weird.
Thanks very much for your help.
Glad you got it sorted Kathy. Interesting I tried in SL360 and SL3 and you are correct, in SL3 the options to Rotate are greyed out. I had to cut the image out of the state, paste in on the slide do the rotation and then paste it back to the state.
Here are the two Peek videos showing the different actions:
SL360
SL3
Might be a question for Articulate staff why it doesn't work the same.
Thanks a lot. I just copied your image and pasted it into my project and I can add more states and they come in the right direction now. It's definitely interesting the way some things work and don't work...
Thanks again.
Kathy Sortor
DOSH/Web Services
360-902-4849 office
katherine.sortor@lni.wa.gov
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