Hotspots delay in working multiple times

Hey Steven, would you be able to share a .story file that exhibits this behavior?

I'm unable to duplicate it (see attached .story file).

Thanks Brian, yes it must be due to the animations on the timeline, but for the life of me I can't spot it! Probably staring straight at me! I've replicated what I'm trying to do on slide 2. Thanks again.

Steven, you're right, it was the animations. In addition to the animations, you were never actually closing or hiding the slide layer, so even when the animations collapsed the panel the layer was still open, hence the delay in getting your hotspot to work again.

I removed the animations, applied a transition to the slide layer, and changed the hotspot trigger on your layer to hide the layer, and it works (updated file attached).

The layer transition isn't exactly the same effect as what you were getting with your animations, but it's close.

Great thanks Brian, I'll have a look. Yes I did have 'hide this layer' on the revealed layer button at what point too, but it still didn't work. It must be the animation and pausing timeline combination!?

That's correct - when you unpaused the timeline the exit animation happened, appearing to collapse the panel but not actually hiding the layer.