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How to... select an avatar as a main character for your course
Hi folks,
I guess the title says it all 
I want to create something where a user can select one of multiple characters before starting a course... That character will then be the main character in the course.
I had a look at Mike Enders screenr here and figured I'd so something with placing all characters over each other and enable/disable them based on a variable. Mike countered that you could do something with one object and have all character options as states but that seems complex to me especially if I want my main character in different poses.
If I take it a step further I'd perhaps like the character that haven't been chosen to play a part in the scenario...
Anyone got some brilliant ideas?
Hi Jeff,
You can go about that a couple ways depending on how you're working with your content.
Slides
This is probably the most common way since it allows you to make all the changes at the slide level.
Slide Masters
For larger project, this might work better since it controls the custom avatars from the slide master level. This is also likely the more efficient way to manage different poses since you could include a different slide layout for each of the poses. Here's a single example that hopefully gets you started
Hi David,
I have tried to recreate this - but can you please clarify some triggers for me? I note that when you hover over your character icons - their face appears...and then you can click on the character. However I cannot see a trigger for this hover in your source files.
I have created a hover trigger that changes the state of my character to move slightly when the mouse hovers over. But there seems to be no way for me to click the character after this.
Can you please help?
Thank you.
Amy
Hi David,
the source cannot be displayed anymore. Is it possible for you to to upload the file again?
Thanks!
HI,
Would it be possible to get valid links again?
Thanks so much!
Set them as a state, normal and female (no pun intended) the set the T/Fvariable when you select your choice.
Then set it on timeline start to change the state with triggers
Hi Phil, so each slide should have a character object in the pose I want and then set them by a variable on each slide again when the timeline starts?
Yep that's it
Trust David to do a simple version with layouts.
Hi All,
Tx for the questions and answers. So easy to implement. Set it up after taking a quick peak at David's source file.
Thank you Phil and David, The slidemaster one is briljant and does exactly what I was thinking about. My mind always makes it so much more complex (due to childhood math trauma
). Especially when I see how easy you can do this in Storyline. Very very cool! @Jeff Great question! I was thinking of doing something similiar in a practice course I'm working on, so this was very timely.
@David - thanks for the great demos! As always, you are my hero!
Happy New Year All!
How do you get the object you put in the slide master to always stay in front of everything else on the slide? I know who to do the is PowerPoint but not Storyline.
