Looping a shape in SL3

Dec 04, 2017

Hi all, new to Storyline 3.

I need to animate a shape to loop/repeat, all I can find is the option to do a full turn or to turn twice. Is there a way to loop or repeat he animation?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Paul

12 Replies
Susi B

Hi Paul,

there are different options to loop something and it depends a little bit of what you want to loop. A motion path or animations like fading etc.

I build you a little example of how you can loop things. If you loop via layer you have to pay attention to if it´s hidden by any other layer later or not and maybe add triggers accordingly. Hope it helps.

Susi

Walt Hamilton

Duplicate the object and set object2 to a default position of hidden. Create trigger on object1: Change state of object2 to normal when animation - entrance- completes on object1. Create another trigger on object1: Change state of object1 to hidden when animation - entrance - completes on object 1.  Repeat the triggers for object2, with the appropriate changes. Set the duration of the animations to get the effect you want.

Stopping the looping is a little more involved. I would set them to spin only once, because when the user clicks, the animation currently in progress will complete.  See the attached sample.

 

Alyssa Gomez

Hi there Paul! So sorry you're having trouble with a looping animation. We are seeing an issue in both Storyline 360 and Storyline 3 where the spin entrance animation adds an extra spin each time the state changes back to Normal in HTML5. 

The Flash output should work correctly, so you'll want to point to that output until we find a solution for this bug. 

I'll tag this thread to be updated as soon as a fix is released!

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