Hi! I hope someone in the community can help me with my SL2 issue.
I created layers on a master slide, and they work perfectly when I preview each slide. But when I preview the whole project, the master slide layers come out in a couple of slides but not in most. These slides have identical triggers, so I can't figure out why the master layers appear in some slides but not in others.
I did a test publish and the project preview version--with slides missing the master slide layers--came out. I tried importing the slides to a new file but still got the same result. I'm working from my local drive, so it couldn't be a network bug.
if you can upload your .story file and perhaps mark the slides that are not displaying correctly with a red shape or something that distinguishes they are the issue slides - someone can take a look for you.
Hi Wendy! It's a software simulation project, quite long, and might have confidentiality restrictions. So I just took the first five slides that show the issue. You'll see here that the light bulb (an object on the master-slide layer) appears on the first three slides and then no more.
For this project, I built the master slide layers and used triggers such that the layers would appear over the recorded screens. It was quite complex and very tedious to copy-paste the triggers on each of nearly 100 slides, but I pulled it off. At least I thought I did, because the master-slide layers were there when I previewed each slide. But when I previewed the whole project, the master-slide layers disppeared in random slides.
I think the triggers for the variable on your slide master were contradicting with the triggers on the slides.
I created a T/F variable (lightBulb) that you toggle on and off...I also added an off state to the picture on and only used the one pic of the lightbulb.
I then used the T/F variable on the slides to trigger the hint layer to show and reset the variable to false each time a new slide started.
I put the variable references on the screen so you can see when the variable changes.
I see you have just copied the hint layer from one slide to another and assume you will be updating with the correct info (took me a couple of tries to get it working as I was clicking in the wrong place - lol)
Anyway - see if it helps - here's a quick video of what I'm now seeing which I think it correct behaviour.
Thanks so much for putting this together, Wendy. This is an elegant solution. I'll do the same for the rest of this project and will keep it in my cache of SL tricks for future projects. :)
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Hi Tin
if you can upload your .story file and perhaps mark the slides that are not displaying correctly with a red shape or something that distinguishes they are the issue slides - someone can take a look for you.
Hi Wendy! It's a software simulation project, quite long, and might have confidentiality restrictions. So I just took the first five slides that show the issue. You'll see here that the light bulb (an object on the master-slide layer) appears on the first three slides and then no more.
For this project, I built the master slide layers and used triggers such that the layers would appear over the recorded screens. It was quite complex and very tedious to copy-paste the triggers on each of nearly 100 slides, but I pulled it off. At least I thought I did, because the master-slide layers were there when I previewed each slide. But when I previewed the whole project, the master-slide layers disppeared in random slides.
Hi Tin
I think the triggers for the variable on your slide master were contradicting with the triggers on the slides.
I created a T/F variable (lightBulb) that you toggle on and off...I also added an off state to the picture on and only used the one pic of the lightbulb.
I then used the T/F variable on the slides to trigger the hint layer to show and reset the variable to false each time a new slide started.
I put the variable references on the screen so you can see when the variable changes.
I see you have just copied the hint layer from one slide to another and assume you will be updating with the correct info (took me a couple of tries to get it working as I was clicking in the wrong place - lol)
Anyway - see if it helps - here's a quick video of what I'm now seeing which I think it correct behaviour.
Thanks so much for putting this together, Wendy. This is an elegant solution. I'll do the same for the rest of this project and will keep it in my cache of SL tricks for future projects. :)
Glad that will work for you Tin - that's quite a project...good luck :-)
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