Hello. I'm designing a custom button and I want to edit one point in a shape. The closest shape I could find under shapes was Block Arrows > Pentagon. I am looking to invert the arrow point so that it points into the shape, instead of away from it. I hope that makes sense.
I don't believe you can edit the points on the preset shapes. It could be possible with a freeform shape, but very tricky because the freeform shapes don't seem to have a lot of control either (as far as angle restriction, etc..). I would recommend building a png with 3rd party software.
Just to add to Michael comments about Powerpoint, if the shape(s) do not come in to SL in the correct location or the correct scale (via cut and paste) and important they do, then put you shape(s) on a separate slide in powerpoint and import the powerpoint slide into SL - Click the (a) top left hand side of the screen and use the "import" to import that slide with your shape(s) on SL.
If you'd like to see more options I'd also encourage you to share your thought directly with our product development team by submitting a feature request. Please be as specific as possible about what you'd like to see to help them understand the need for these additional shapes.
Looks like most users were able to accomplish what they needed by using Powerpoint.
I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful and encourage you to share your ideas here as well as a use case :)
Seems like a fairly simple feature to add to reduce UX frustrations of having to leave SL, open PPT, design your shape, save it out, then bring it into SL. I feel like software companies should be in the business of making their software something that doesn't force users to use another company's product as often as possible. As a new SL user this seems like something that could have been easily addressed within the last 9 years.
I 100% agree! I would rather not have to leave Storyline to edit my shapes. Just some basic design elements would be fine. Let us edit points of a shape and make the different points curve if we want. Also, it would be awesome if Storyline would allow us to combine shapes like we can in PowerPoint.
Since this thread is from "almost 10 years ago" I don't expect this to change any time in my lifetime lol. But not much can be done outside of commenting here and hoping one of their product engineers reads it. It just doesn't make logical sense for their solution to be "use someone else's program in order to use ours the way you'd like." (not to mention bringing in a singular shape from PPT scales it drastically because the two programs don't have the same pixels per inch)
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Hi Aaron,
I don't believe you can edit the points on the preset shapes. It could be possible with a freeform shape, but very tricky because the freeform shapes don't seem to have a lot of control either (as far as angle restriction, etc..). I would recommend building a png with 3rd party software.
Thanks, Julia. That's was what I thought I would have to do.
Hi Aaron,
I just wanted to welcome you to Heroes and it looks like Julia was able to assist you.
Aaron, you can always go into PowerPoint, pick a basic shape, edits its points, save it as a bitmaps and then import that bitmap into Storyline.
HI Aaron,
Just to add to Michael comments about Powerpoint, if the shape(s) do not come in to SL in the correct location or the correct scale (via cut and paste) and important they do, then put you shape(s) on a separate slide in powerpoint and import the powerpoint slide into SL - Click the (a) top left hand side of the screen and use the "import" to import that slide with your shape(s) on SL.
cheers
Garry
And just to add onto what Garry said,
I often create shapes in PPT....
In fact, a lot of times I take PPT Smart Art, mess with its format and convert it to shapes...
And then I save the shapes to .png files and insert them into SL.
So, rather than inserting an entire slide, I just import the PNGs
There are just so many shape options in PowerPoint. It is a real shame that we have such limited options in Storyline!
Hi Trav,
If you'd like to see more options I'd also encourage you to share your thought directly with our product development team by submitting a feature request. Please be as specific as possible about what you'd like to see to help them understand the need for these additional shapes.
Just submitted a feature request for this.
Thanks Pam, the more the better!
What is the status of this feature request after 4 years ?
Hey M N!
Looks like most users were able to accomplish what they needed by using Powerpoint.
I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful and encourage you to share your ideas here as well as a use case :)
Oh I did the same just a while ago! :D
Seems like a fairly simple feature to add to reduce UX frustrations of having to leave SL, open PPT, design your shape, save it out, then bring it into SL. I feel like software companies should be in the business of making their software something that doesn't force users to use another company's product as often as possible. As a new SL user this seems like something that could have been easily addressed within the last 9 years.
I 100% agree! I would rather not have to leave Storyline to edit my shapes. Just some basic design elements would be fine. Let us edit points of a shape and make the different points curve if we want. Also, it would be awesome if Storyline would allow us to combine shapes like we can in PowerPoint.
Since this thread is from "almost 10 years ago" I don't expect this to change any time in my lifetime lol. But not much can be done outside of commenting here and hoping one of their product engineers reads it. It just doesn't make logical sense for their solution to be "use someone else's program in order to use ours the way you'd like." (not to mention bringing in a singular shape from PPT scales it drastically because the two programs don't have the same pixels per inch)