How would you animate a glow in and out?

Kim,

Do you mean a pulse?  As in, you want the object to pulsate with a certain color on the way in and out or the "glow" effect as it is implemented in Storyline?

Either way you can use State Changes to accomplish this effect.

Hi Kim,

Welcome to the community.

I've attached a story which is modeled completely after a Jeanette Brooks story from this link. She describes the steps there, and she provides a story to upload as well.

This approach uses layers. Please shout out with any questions.

Hi Rebecca,

Thanks, it's good to be here. 

This is terrific, and it was exactly what I was looking for!  Thank you!

To this same effect--what if I have an object that I want to make look like it is pulsing?  I tried a few things along the same line and couldn't get it to do what I wanted.  Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Kim

You can see a pulsing glow based on objects at the end of slide 1 here - http://episode3.storylion.co.uk/.

Just done with multiple images fading in and out, (despite the fact that the course is on States...)

Hi Kim,

Glad that worked for you and that Bruce was able to answer your 2nd question.

Hi Rebecca,

I know this an old post, but I'm hoping you are still on and will see this. I tried the link you posted with the steps, but it doesn't bring me to the steps. Do you know the steps I can take to make an object "glow"? I want to bring attention to objects to make people click on them. I hate adding so many directions for things. I prefer to lead them without having to add directions. 

Thanks for your help!

Hi Amanda

is this what you mean? See attached sample

Hi Amanda and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! Looks like Wendy has popped in to assist you here and unfortunately Rebecca doesn't make it back to the forums. Just let us know if you need anything further.

I did something like this recently. I drew a rough outline of the object I wanted to "glow", then set it white with wide "soft edges". That created the background glow I wanted. I put it in a layer with the object in front of it. The glowing background did a fade in and fade out in the layer. 

Then I had another layer that just showed the object without the glowing background.

Finally, I set up a loop where one layer called the other which closed itself at the end and called the calling layer. 

Works perfectly. Glow fades in and out in a pulsing manner forever.

Cool idea here, Russ! Many thanks for passing that along and hopefully it will be very useful to others trying to achieve the same effect. 

I'm trying to do the same thing as Amanda said above--use a pulsing glow effect to indicate what to click without giving excessive instructions. I see that people have ways to accomplish this, but it would be awesome if a pulsing glow effect could be built into Storyline to apply to objects more easily.

Hello, Kayleigh. Thanks for adding your voice!

I'm going to share your thoughts about a built-in pulse animation with the team as a Feature Request on your behalf, so you should get an email confirmation about it shortly!

In the meantime, a few approaches to creating a pulsing effect:

• Duplicate the object or text box and make it appear and disappear multiple times.
• Pulse Effects. This discussion offers a handful of crafty tips and examples from community members, like you! 😀

Could any of these work for what you are looking to do?

Thanks! I suspect they could work, but I've already turned the project in to stakeholders at this point. I would have added a pulsing glow if it were a quick process or built-in, but did not have much time to devote to getting it to work properly before submitting the project. Thank you for doing that!