I have a picture of a phone but want to be able to have an animated give showing sound waves.. to visually represent ringing when the phone is supposed to be ringing. Anyone know of a good gif our there for this? I'm open to other suggestions for a visual representation of a phone ringing on a desk.
Looking for an abstract representation or a visual indicator of an actual device.
You might try making the phone look like it's "shaking" in a subtle way. Shake... Shake... Shake... (Ring, Ring, Ring). Or try highlighting the phone with an outline. You can see something similar in this unfinished demo (could take a bit to load):
It's not in Storyline but I don't see any reason it couldn't be built in SL. Working on a process simulation prototype this week in Storyline for incident response onboard boats that'll be similar. Will post that once it's in good shape.
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That is great as far as the motion I need. I am just trying to figure out how you did it hehe. Do you have a link that would show motion path looping? I know how to do a simple motion path but I'm confused on how to loop it. I got the path down and the duration but I can't figure out the looping part. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Look in t he trigger panel for group1. There is a trigger that starts a motion path animation for this group when this motion path (which is initially triggered by clicking the button) completes. And since I didn't want to phone to 'ring' forever, I added a variable that counts up and stops the motion path after 3 loops.
I wanted to have a phone ringing during the whole slide timeline, but in 'shakes' of 3 at a time, with a delay in between.
I followed Michael's example, but added another motion path of 1.5 secs where the start and end point was the same spot - i.e. there is no actual motion.
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Looking for an abstract representation or a visual indicator of an actual device.
You might try making the phone look like it's "shaking" in a subtle way. Shake... Shake... Shake... (Ring, Ring, Ring). Or try highlighting the phone with an outline. You can see something similar in this unfinished demo (could take a bit to load):
http://www.xpconcept.com/usaf/demo.swf
Is that a flash animation. I'm working in storyline and want to avoid flash i think.
Hi, Ari -
Yeah, that's Flash. But you could pretty easily replicate that effect in Storyline.
WOw, that is amazing. Is that all in storyline?
It's not in Storyline but I don't see any reason it couldn't be built in SL. Working on a process simulation prototype this week in Storyline for incident response onboard boats that'll be similar. Will post that once it's in good shape.
thanks,
I'd love to pick your brain on that kind of stuff. I'm just getting into developing sims.
Hi guys,
Did you ever find a solution to this?
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Here is a quick example of how this may be done with a simple, looped motion path.
Michael,
That is great as far as the motion I need. I am just trying to figure out how you did it hehe. Do you have a link that would show motion path looping? I know how to do a simple motion path but I'm confused on how to loop it. I got the path down and the duration but I can't figure out the looping part. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Look in t he trigger panel for group1. There is a trigger that starts a motion path animation for this group when this motion path (which is initially triggered by clicking the button) completes. And since I didn't want to phone to 'ring' forever, I added a variable that counts up and stops the motion path after 3 loops.
I wanted to have a phone ringing during the whole slide timeline, but in 'shakes' of 3 at a time, with a delay in between.
I followed Michael's example, but added another motion path of 1.5 secs where the start and end point was the same spot - i.e. there is no actual motion.
Motion Path 1 - move the phone slightly left, duration 0.10 sec
Motion path 2 - don't move the phone, duration 1.5 sec.
Add a second trigger for the MP1 (to occur when MP2 had finished)
Add a trigger for MP2 (to occur when MP1 has finished and ring-count = max-rings)
Add a trigger to reset the ring-count to zero when MP2 completes (replaces Michael's reset on Button 1 click).
I have also made shaking/buzzing movement based on above suggestions. Very helpful btw.
I wanted 3 answer options to shake for a short while to call on the viewers attention.
That's a cool little reminder feature, Yoon.
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