I created a zoom region and it works fine. The program zooms to a close up of a whiteboard. I have three layers on the slide. Two of the layers show the white board with the zoom and that's fine. The third layer needs to show the entire screen, but I still get the zoom feature. Is there a way to zoom out on a layer that has a zoom in on the base layer?
In my experience, Zoom regions act like a magnifying glass held over the Storyline stage, magnifying whatever is visible during its timeline.
Maybe you could use a state change on a 'moved to Back' image, where the 'zoom' state uses a Grow entry animation to reveal a scaled-up version of your 'moved to Back' image, and then display the other layer(s)...Am I making any sense?
Alan, not sure how you are triggering the layers but you can set the layers to pause the timeline of the base layer. I've quickly and roughly thrown something together not sure if this what you are trying to achieve.
I am having a similar issue as Alan I believe. My situation is this:
I am showing a city skyline. I want to zoom into one of the buildings. Once zoomed, 5 buttons will show up in the building, zoomed. You can click on one of these 5 buttons to display, say, Layer 1, which displays completely on top of the base layer. But this Layer 1 needs to be full size, not zoomed. I want to be able to click on a Close button on Layer 1 to hide Layer 1 once the content is done displaying, to go back to the base layer (which should still be zoomed, so I can see the 5 buttons larger). The problem I am having is that since I want the base layer to be zoomed in on those 5 buttons, and to stay zoomed from that point forward, I am not able to show Layer 1 without it being zoomed. Is there a way around this? Let me know if you need clarification about any of this. I know it sounds confusing.
Instead of zooming in, I will be opening a new slide using a transition, then add the layers to the new slide. Zoom just won't work I don't think. Kudos to my manager Christopher for the idea!
Thanks for sharing the workaround you're going to implement here, and the zoom region will impact the layers, since it's considered all a part of the same slide.
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Hi Alan,
In my experience, Zoom regions act like a magnifying glass held over the Storyline stage, magnifying whatever is visible during its timeline.
Maybe you could use a state change on a 'moved to Back' image, where the 'zoom' state uses a Grow entry animation to reveal a scaled-up version of your 'moved to Back' image, and then display the other layer(s)...Am I making any sense?
Best of luck,
Carlos
Tks, Carlos... I'll give it a try. I'm thinking I'll just create a new slide. Still, I'd like to know how to do it.
Alan, not sure how you are triggering the layers but you can set the layers to pause the timeline of the base layer. I've quickly and roughly thrown something together not sure if this what you are trying to achieve.
Blair
I am having a similar issue as Alan I believe. My situation is this:
I am showing a city skyline. I want to zoom into one of the buildings. Once zoomed, 5 buttons will show up in the building, zoomed. You can click on one of these 5 buttons to display, say, Layer 1, which displays completely on top of the base layer. But this Layer 1 needs to be full size, not zoomed. I want to be able to click on a Close button on Layer 1 to hide Layer 1 once the content is done displaying, to go back to the base layer (which should still be zoomed, so I can see the 5 buttons larger). The problem I am having is that since I want the base layer to be zoomed in on those 5 buttons, and to stay zoomed from that point forward, I am not able to show Layer 1 without it being zoomed. Is there a way around this? Let me know if you need clarification about any of this. I know it sounds confusing.
Instead of zooming in, I will be opening a new slide using a transition, then add the layers to the new slide. Zoom just won't work I don't think. Kudos to my manager Christopher for the idea!
Hi Mary Ann,
Thanks for sharing the workaround you're going to implement here, and the zoom region will impact the layers, since it's considered all a part of the same slide.
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