Disappearing characters
Jan 31, 2014
I am having a problem with animated characters "disappearing" from the slide from time to time.
Here's what happens: the objects on the slide, including the character, are timed to appear at various times, then are set to "show until end."
Everything works fine except in cases where someone has to leave the slide showing on their screen for a while--whether to answer the phone, look something up, or have a conversation. When they come back, the character is gone, but all of the other objects on the slide (text boxes, shapes, captions, etc.) are still there.
I'm starting to think my characters are getting bored like the people in the paintings at Hogwarts!
Current workaround: set characters to "show always" and then overlay them with an object that disappears when I want the character to appear.
Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing? Thanks in advance!
4 Replies
HI Cheryl,
Too funny
The only thing I could think of: by any chance do the characters have exit animations? That would cause them to "leave the building" even if show until end/always are turned on
That was it! Thank you so much!
I don't remember putting an exit animation in, but I guess I must have done it sometime in the murky past before setting up my states, then it carried through every time I pasted a character in.
Thanks again!
Been there, done that
Glad it was an easy fix.
Oh...thanks for this answer. My character was exiting on command as well. Fixed, and now she hangs around. Thanks.
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