Choose your own avatar
Sep 29, 2015
I have a pick your own avatar element in my project and if I've chosen male (the default setting) it works but if I choose female it shows the male for a split second before switching to female. The triggers are:
Change state of: character 1 "male 3..." to female when timeline starts If character is equal to 1
I've attached the stripped down project with the troublesome slides. I also had some slides that worked fine (where the correct gender was showed seamlessly) and the slide 1.2 did work fine but when I deleted the "extra" slides to save for uploading, it quit working.
Any advice is appreciated! Thanks
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I believe it is because the 'Normal' state of the object is set to the male character. So when Storyline is loading the object it initially starts at the normal than shifts based on a trigger.
I think it might fix this if you create a 'male' state and set the normal state of the object to a transparent object or something like that.
That worked but now the character doesn't show up for a split second. Is there any way to get rid of that blank frame? If not, I guess this is better than before! Thanks for your help.
No Problem!
To my knowledge you cant get rid of the 'normal' state. Maybe you could have an 80% transparent image of a character in it so that instead of the state change jumping it looks more like its fading in?
Hi Jessica,
I can't take a look at your project file right now, but off the top of my head, I do recall that enabling transitions from one slide to another will result in this 'flashing' issue you are having, where the Normal state flashes before switching to the trigger-mandated 'female' state.
If you have a transition at the slide level, where a slides crossfade, for example, then Storyline is using the 'default' first frame of the slide you are entering before it carries out any triggers. So, if you have a transition, try taking it off. If you want to keep the transition, Jackson's solution should work.
Good luck!
I don't have any transitions on my slides and I didn't add the 80% image as normal because that would give me the same problem as before (where the male state showed briefly before the female) just more faded.
Thanks to both of you.
My bad, I should've waited until I could access my Storyline 2 computer.
OK, what you need to do is change the trigger on "your job" to when the timeline starts on Object: Character 1.
Unfortunately, I don't know WHY this is, but I can tell you that it will fix the problem.
(To clarify, it's currently set to take effect when the timeline starts on the slide.)
Amazing. Thanks!
Just an FYI Jessica, responding via email includes your signature so you are welcome to edit the post to remove that information if you wish. Glad Belen was able to assist you here!
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