Entrance animation/exit animation - can we do emphasis?
Sep 07, 2012
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Hi everyone!
I have some great news to share! We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 84, we've included important fixes and new features.
One of the new features we've included is:
- Choose from a library of emphasis animations that grab learners' attention with effects like pulsing, shaking, and teetering.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help!
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Thanks so much, Ray! That will save me well over 200 hotspots today.
I had it no fill and dashed lines (for flashing running ants). It was (annoyingly) letting me trigger with a click anywhere on the screen and not just inside the no fill box. done and done.
dave
+1 from me as well! Seems like Storyline should have everything PPT has, especially now that it's been around for so long.
+1
And my vote. I'm looking at video animation software like Powtoon with pulsing / popping animations, and html Elementor effects like mouse/scroll effects & mini image zoom in/out with hover. Another way forward could be an animated icon library as some of the emphasis effects oscillate between two states.
+1 will really help
What I've done is to put a shape behind whatever I needed to pulse, have both an entry and exit animation (fade in/out; at the same 0.5 sec duration each) and have the following 2 triggers:
It creates a loop that pulses using the states.
+1 for emphasis animation.
How would you create a spotlight effect?
This is what I currently did...
1. Make 3 copies of image
2. Top version is the cropped area you wish to "spotlight". Add the soft edges picture effect
3. Middle version is normal. Set an exit fade animation with a shorter timeline
4. Back version should be recolored to dark gray
Is there an easier way?
Voting for this too!
+1
Hello everyone, any updates on emphasis animations and when we can expect more? I could really use a pulsing one in the project I am developing. Cheers.
+1! (Add me to the list of requestors too!)
+1 I would love to have the emphasis animations like in Powerpoint!
+1 from me for emphasis animations!
I can see it's been 2 years since the last note on this discussion and we still don't have emphasis animations. Is there any reason Articulate is hesitant to add this request? Will it hinder the functionality of other components? I know we can probably achieve emphasis using states, layers, and triggers... but the level of effort is considerably higher and not as clean as if we simply had a 'PowerPoint-esque' animation effect.... Any updates on this?
Hi deborah!
Thanks for following up on this feature to add the Emphasis animation in Storyline 360! I'm happy to share an update, but I'm afraid it's not what you're hoping for. We've had features that are a higher priority, so this isn't on our current roadmap. That doesn't mean that it won't be in the future, but right now, our team is prioritizing other features for our upcoming releases. I'll be sure to report back when this makes it on our roadmap.
+1
To everyone who s been asking for this.. i think I may have a workaround
Have the object you want to pulse appear last on the layer ( or atleast as the last animation ). Set the animation time for just a 1oth of a second and then add a trigger " jump to time on this slide " set the time in the trigger to when your object started animating " voila .. you have a pulse loop
Wow this request went in almost 10 years ago. Nothing on this still. It seems we spend more time looking for workarounds on Storyline than anything...
No workaround on the increase in price of Articulate though.
This was requested almost ten years ago Lauren. Do you foresee this being something that might happen within the next ten years??
Count me in for Emphasis effects, too...as others have said, this has been around forever in PPT. For those of us who do a lot of PPT importing, it sure would alleviate the burden of creating animated GIFs or using states and loop timing in a separate layer...both of which are kludgy workarounds.
I kinda thought the rationale behind the Articulate360 product line was that updates, new features, and bug fixes could and would happen more often and at a faster rate...Most of us would probably prefer smaller incremental releases of updates than have to wait until there is a critical mass of new updates/features/bug fixes.
I am looking for emphasis animations. Has this request from 4+ years ago been executed?
Still waiting for this!
Hi everyone!
I have some great news to share! We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 84, we've included important fixes and new features.
One of the new features we've included is:
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help!