Hover Triggers Won't Work

Oct 17, 2017

Allen Way
By Allen Way

Hey all,

I was making a proof of concept piece in SL 360 where rectangles around buttons on a background image go from hidden to normal state when the user hovers over them. There's more but that is as far as I got. The hover triggers won't work. It is as if there is no trigger at all.

I tried both importing the page and copying and pasting the page items into fresh SL instances to no avail. What am I missing here. (It has to be something really obvious, right?)

I've attached my .story file sans the background image. Everything else is the same.

Thanks for your help, heroes! 

--Allen

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3 Replies
Alyssa Gomez
over 6 years ago10/19/17 at 2:37 pm (UTC)

Hi there Allen,

I'm happy to help! Since the object is technically "hidden", the mouse can't hover over the object, and the change state trigger won't work.

Instead, try using a shape with 100% transparency for the "Normal" state so it appears hidden. Have a look at the example I made on slide 1.2 of your file, and let me know if that will work for you!

Allen Way
over 6 years ago10/19/17 at 2:57 pm (UTC)

Alyssa,

Thanks for riding to my rescue! That makes complete sense now that you have pointed it out. I guess that makes you the brains between the two of us <grin>.

In the interim, I actually came up with something similar. I made a new state called Invisible, set the object transparencies to 100% and set Invisible as the initial state.

Thanks again,

--Allen

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