Charater interaction

Sarah, have you already looked in the available templates?  http://community.articulate.com/downloads/g/storyline/default.aspx 

Triggers/layers/etc will be needed to develop dialog, unless you plan to build successive screens.

I hope this helps!

Cheryl

Hi Sarah, 

It looks like Cheryl has pointed you in the right direction, but if not, could you share the forum thread you're referring to so we can point you in the right direction? 

Hi All,

Sarah, there is something called a 2-person Scenario in the Top Interactions template that comes with Storyline. If SL is open you can access it by 

• Insert a new slide
• When the Insert Slides dialog box open, choose Templates (on the left)
• Click the drop-down arrow (see red arrow in screen shot) and choose Top Interactions
• You can see the Two-Person Scenario in the Screen shot

Also, in case Cheryl's link to the Articulate downloads page doesn't work for you (it didn't for me...but it could be working for others), perhaps this one will:

http://community.articulate.com/downloads/

Thanks for the prompt replies. I saw the Two-Person Scenario but ruled it out as my dialogue didn't require the user to make a decision. I think the interaction I was originally referring to may be a new template in Articulate 13, which isn't available in Studio. In the end I took the easy option and created successive screens with facial changes. Will try to recreate with layers, triggers, etc when I have more time. Thanks again.

Thanks for the update Sarah. 

Hi

i used story line pervious;y and had these templates.  i now have storylie 2, are these templates no longer available?

Thanks

Hi Michelle,

The top interaction templates were built into Storyline 1, and were not included as a part of Storyline 2. You can download them here though. 

Here's another resource that might help you, it's the elearning challenge to show conversations.  You can find some great ideas here: https://community.articulate.com/articles/showing-conversation-and-messaging-in-elearning