New in Storyline 360: Emphasis Animations (Beta)

Phil and Tetiana,

Opening the project in x64 fixed the issue - makes total sense! My triggers are all in place and no longer "unassigned". 

Thank you Phil!

Anyone come up with a clever way to stop an emphasis animation?

I'd like to loop an emphasis animation on a button *until* it gets clicked, at which point it should stop looping.

Hey Brian,

If you add a visited state on the button, and then have the animation loop on the condition that the state is normal. Once they click, it should go to visited and then the loop should stop.

Thanks for the quick reply Tom.. I'm using the default buttons which have visited states, and this was my first thought as well, but for whatever reason isn't working for me. I'll keep playing around with it.

It works for me. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/b60d23ea-02c6-4674-99a2-fa611b2958eb/review

I deleted the hover state because based on where it was in the animation that could trigger the stopping.

Very helpful, thanks Tom, I figured out what I was doing. Much appreciated

Brian, was it the hover state that caused the issue for you? I am using cue points to trigger a teeter emphasis with a looping timeline. When visited, the item goes to state disabled. I have tried to only teeter if the state is normal, if the state is not disabled, and I've tried variables (if variable is / if variable is not). The disabled objects continue to teeter. 

All animations are deleted after saving the project

Hey Katie, if you haven't resolved this, I recommend starting a new thread and if you can post your file to see what you did, that would really help. Otherwise, your issue could get swallowed up by all of the comments here. 

If the project isn't working as it should, contact our support team and they can assist you. 

https://access.articulate.com/support/contact/360-teams

My problem ended up being user error... I had somehow added an additional emphasis animation to my buttons. When I deleted the extra animation it all worked. 

From what I could see the second emphasis animation didn't seem to be accounted for in any of the triggers, which I thought was weird, but it's possible I accidentally deleted it not realizing what it was at first.

I used a similar approach to Tom's video he shared above for looping, with a couple of tweaks. My buttons begin disabled and are set to a normal state when specific slide layers have been viewed. I only wanted the emphasis effect to occur when the button was first set to Normal, and only if the button had not yet been clicked. Once the button was clicked I wanted to make sure that the emphasis effect would not trigger if the slide were revisited.

First trigger to start the emphasis animation (once the button state changes to Normal)...

Second trigger to loop the animation until the button is clicked the first time...

I discovered something neat!  You can use a hotspot as a trigger point to animate the emphasis animation.  So, I added a motion path to the hotspot and created a wave effect for a row of icons.

• Setup row of icons (or other asset)
• Create hotspot
• Give each icon an Emphasis Animation that triggers on intersection of hotspot
• Set animation path of hotspot to intersect through the row of icons.
• Create button to trigger animation path of hotspot.

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/2c78dd9f-83d1-4f17-855f-5ea131319ce1/review

Pretty cool!

This animation is unusable. When I reopen the file all the triggers are incomplete

My team has also had the same issue with emphasis animations disappearing when a project is saved, closed and opened again! We enthusiastically started using them as they are great but were disappointed to have to reassign them when revisiting a project. I hope this will be fixed very soon.

If you open the project with Storyline x36 the problem does not appear

Es muy útil y ayuda a enriquecer el curso, pero tengo un error con su funcionalidad, ya que, cuando tengo todos mis botones con esa nueva función, guardo y cierra mi programa , al abrirlo nuevamente para continuar con mi proyecto, todas las animaciones de énfasis se pierden y queda sin vincular, y me toca repetir el proceso, pero igual no puedo cerrar por que todo se me pierde. 

The emphasis animations are cool, but I'm also having the same issue as Tetiana and Ghislaine.

Whilst working on a session I find that sometimes when I return to a slide with emphasis animations that have been previously been set up, they have become unlinked and the triggers are showing unassigned.

Please can you help as I would like to continue using this great feature.

How do we fix the issue of the emphasis animations not showing up after we have saved a project and then opened it again? The triggers are there, but they are unassigned.

• The project or slide where the emphasis animations are missing
• Any backups of the same project
• Did you use the 32-bit or 64-bit version to create and open the project?
• If the answer above is 32-bit, then does opening in the 64-bit version fix the issue?
• Did you copy/paste any slides or shapes?
• Repro steps if you can consistently run into this bug

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused! 

The same here