New in Storyline 360: Emphasis Animations (Beta)
Jan 23, 2024
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Hello all!
In Storyline 360 (Build 3.85.31840.0), we fixed a bug that many of you were running into:
- Fixed: Emphasis-animation triggers could become incomplete after reopening a project file.
From here, all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!
If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to our Support team in a support case.
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It's about time! This is a good start. Can't wait until you add more (you are going to add more?)
Very neat, I love this! It gives the opportunity to be a little playful with your animations. Previously I have tried to create my own teetering effect by making custom motion paths which is not as smooth as the new Teeter effect.
However, with the Growth and Shrink effect, I notice the image does not revert back to it's original size. When the growth effect is added, the image will get bigger and stay large, and vice versa with the Shrink. Fiddling with the effect options do not seem to help.
(This may have designed it this way intentionally though...)
The images with the other effects (teeter, shake, pulse) return to their initial state/size/placement.
I tried creating a second state to get the image to Change to state 2 after emphasis animation completes, but it doesn't seem to want to.
I will figure out a workaround. Probably hiding the image and having a second identical image appear when the engagement is complete, or combine with entrance/ exit animations.
Perhaps an option to return the image to its original state upon the emphasis animation completion might be nice, but this is great! I will certainly be using this feature right away :)
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If you have an error in javascript in your course the emphasis animations might not work
We have solved. Thank you! :)
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Would love to try out this feature. However, how can I download the Beta version? I have the regular version. Thanks
Hi,
I have the beta version of storyline, but the emphasis animations are not showing, how can I force an update in storyline to get this feature?
Is it possible to loop these animations?
I am also interested in looping.
Yes...create a trigger that plays the animation on "when animation completes"
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To get the new animations, you need to update Storyline. Go into the Articulate tray app on your task bar and in the drop down arrow for Storyline you should see the option to update Storyline to the newest version.
As far as looping, Kirk is correct:
Hi Laura, for the grow and shrink effect, you can accomplish that by choosing "Original Size" under "Effect Options". For example:
- Grow rectangle (effect option: large [which is the default]) when user clicks
- Shrink rectangle (effect option: original size [need to select]) when grow animation completes or when timeline ends, etc
Hope that helps!
This feature is out in public beta so you should see it in the regular version as long as you have updated to the latest release (3.84.31647.0)
If you click the dropdown menu next to your avatar on the desktop application, you should see an option to check for updates.
I was going to post a looping example, but you beat me to it :) Thanks for sharing a great walk-through of the feature Tom!
Legend thank you :-)
Awesome, thanks Kirk.
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both those triggers should work
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I am enjoying this new feature! It seems to work with a variety of triggers. I agree that an option to return the image to its original state upon the emphasis animation completion would be nice.
There is one major issue, however : I created and saved a project with quite a few emphasis animations. When I reopened the project a day later, all of the emphasis animations had disappeared from my objects and my triggers showed "unassigned". Very disappointed this morning :-(
I am unable to send a support case because Articulate Support is down for maintenance until Jan. 29th 2024.
You can return by adding another trigger for when the animation completes; hover will always return to normal.
There was an issue in the beta that did get resolved, any chance you opened once in 32bit and second in 64 bit
I have the same issue as described above. All of my emphasis animations automatically deleted after opening previously saved project. I tried repeating my steps a few times to reproduce the bug, but with no luck. I re-added animations, but they continue to disappear after a while. I haven't been able to determine the specific conditions yet, it just happens randomly when I open a project.
I'm using 32 bit version only, never installed x64.
great new animations. Thank you team This will allow you to do beautiful things I hope that you will add those that are also available in PPT like transparency, darkening, color.... because there, we are really going to do great things and that will propel you far ahead of other competitors Francois