Thanks for the help thus far! I am curious how I can have a couple shapes (two rectangles) animate before the slide advances. I have two rectangles that are triggered to enter the slide on a motion path at the timeline start to "build" the slide. Then, when the user hits the next button, I'd like the slide to be "un-built" and have those two rectangles move in another direction, and advance the slide quickly after they are gone. Any suggestions on how to do this?
I am building the motion paths in the slide master view so I do not have to build them on each individual slide. (Storyline 3!)
Thanks Matthew! I'm having some trouble, I uploaded a screenshot of my screen with the triggers in the Master view. The entrance motion plays fine, but then the exit one is having some trouble. Thanks for the help!
I created a sample file that has similar triggers to the ones in your file, with just a few tweaks. Test the published file in action here, then check out the project file I attached to see how I set this up!
Okay, so here's another little hiccup I stumbled upon. Any advice or thoughts are helpful. I have the rectangles and text placeholders built in slide master, where I originally built those animations and triggers. Is there a way to do that while also disabling the Next button until each slide reaches a certain time, based on the amount of time it takes for the audio for each slide to play? What I'm running into is that all of the animations and triggers have to be in Slide Master (in which case all slides will be the same duration, unless I make slides of different lengths), or it all has to be done in slide view where I can change individual triggers, is this a correct assumption? Or is there an easter egg that I'm not finding?
Did a little playing of my own and here's what I came up with: In Master, disable (or hide) the next button and move objects on their paths at timeline start. In slide view, set trigger to show or enable the next button at the proper time, which will trigger the remaining Master view triggers moving the objects on their exit path when the user hits the next button, and jump to the next slide when one of those animations completes! This gets rid of any timeline issues and someone seemed to make it easier to understand as well!
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Thanks Matthew! I'm having some trouble, I uploaded a screenshot of my screen with the triggers in the Master view. The entrance motion plays fine, but then the exit one is having some trouble. Thanks for the help!
Hi Brendan!
I created a sample file that has similar triggers to the ones in your file, with just a few tweaks. Test the published file in action here, then check out the project file I attached to see how I set this up!
Perfect! Thank you Alyssa! You all are great here!
Okay, so here's another little hiccup I stumbled upon. Any advice or thoughts are helpful. I have the rectangles and text placeholders built in slide master, where I originally built those animations and triggers. Is there a way to do that while also disabling the Next button until each slide reaches a certain time, based on the amount of time it takes for the audio for each slide to play? What I'm running into is that all of the animations and triggers have to be in Slide Master (in which case all slides will be the same duration, unless I make slides of different lengths), or it all has to be done in slide view where I can change individual triggers, is this a correct assumption? Or is there an easter egg that I'm not finding?
Thanks!!
Did a little playing of my own and here's what I came up with: In Master, disable (or hide) the next button and move objects on their paths at timeline start. In slide view, set trigger to show or enable the next button at the proper time, which will trigger the remaining Master view triggers moving the objects on their exit path when the user hits the next button, and jump to the next slide when one of those animations completes! This gets rid of any timeline issues and someone seemed to make it easier to understand as well!
Wow, fantastic work, Brendan! I love your workaround -- very creative! 🌟
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