How to create PP animations in Storyline on click, w previous, etc

Either set them to hidden and user triggers to change their state when you click, or add them to layers and set triggers to show the layers when you click.

Thanks. I will try the first one. I'm not sure how to do it.

I tried the second method already but only the last layer would show.

I guess what I'm trying to do is that I have 5 bubbles and I would like each to appear on a different click. One after the other. So 5 bubbles, = 5 clicks.

you can change layers to not hide other layers on the layer properties dialogue

Hi Amelie,

To illustrate what Phil is saying.

Re: "Either set them to hidden and user triggers to change their state when you click"

Click on a bubble, then click the states tab, then click the Initial state drop-down and change to hidden

"or add them to layers and set triggers to show the layers when you click...you can change layers to not hide other layers on the layer properties dialogue."

Click the gear icon beside the layer, then remove the checkmark from the Hide other layers checkbox

I've attached a file with 2 slides showing both methods. I created a number variable and called it "clicks"

On the Hidden bubbles slide

• All bubbles have an initial state of hidden
• A trigger adds 1 to the ClicksVariable each time the user clicks the button
• Additional triggers change the state of hidden bubbles as the clicks count up.

On the Bubble Layers slide

• There is one bubble on each layer
• The first trigger adjusts the ClicksVariable back to 0
• The next trigger adds 1 to the ClicksVariable each time the user clicks the button
• The bubble on the base layer has an initial state of hidden
• The first trigger changes the state of the button on the base layer to normal when the user clicks the button
• Bubbles on other layers have an initial state of normal
• Additional triggers show these layers as the clicks count up.

Hi Amelie,

I just wanted to welcome you to the Heroes community, and it looks like Becky and Phil have you covered here. If you need anything else please let us know. 

I would like to do something similar. I am hoping to use Storyline for a presentation and found another forum on how to make the slides change using a wireless clicker. Is there some way to trigger the animations with a wireless clicker? I want to use a zoom.

Hi Amy,

I haven't seen a lot of other examples or thread where users were triggering animations or elements with a wireless clicker - and I don't have one to test it out with. Have you tried to set the triggers up using the right and left arrow key and then seeing if the clicker (which normally acts as a left to right arrow in terms of advancing a slide in Powerpoint)?