slow the rate of state changes on objects?
May 28, 2015
Hi all
I am wondering if there is any way to do this.
I have a start button and several text bubbles that have entrance animation attached to each and are all set to a hidden state. I want them to reveal one after the other without further interaction from the user once the user has pressed the start button . I have set it so that bubble 1 changes to normal state when user clicks, then bubble 2 changes to normal when animation completes on object 1 etc. Which is fine except that they are all revealed quite quickly without leaving any time to register and read the previous one.
My question is - is there any way to put a time delay in to the sequence so the trigger is the same (animation completes) but also a time delay of few seconds is allowed?
I hope this makes sense...
thanks all
8 Replies
Hi Julie
Have you tried using cue points on the timeline and then trigger the objects to reveal when they reach a cuepoint...that may work
Hi Wendy thank you for your reply unfortunately I don't think that would achieve what I am after. (Unless I have missed something completely obvious regarding cue points.)
As I can't predict at what time point the user will click to start the first state change and animation, so I don't know at what point to insert the cue point to start the delay timing from. I probably more need a variable that says when this animation has completed allow x seconds and then next object change state but have no idea on how to achieve this.
Hi Julie
I work on this formula - so could you use that below for the amount of text in your captions to space them out on the timeline when to bring them in?
200 words per minute for text – the rate that the average person reads and processes information
Thanks for you suggestion, Wendy! And Julie, please feel free to let us know if that will work for you, or if you still need additional assistance. :)
Thanks Wendy
I have tried doing that prior to requesting help and unfortunately the timing doesn't align between the timeline and pressing the start button. Never mind seems not possible not a big deal so I will find some other way to design the slide all good.
thanks again! :)
Hi Julie,
Would this work? I added a trigger to oval 2 to change to normal when the user clicks oval 1, then made the entrance animation last 4 seconds. I then added triggers to ovals 3 and 4 to change to a normal state when the entrance animation of the previous oval completed.
- Amanda
Hi Amanda
Thank you, that is pretty much what I did except I used motion paths as I found they are more controlable. It is a good enough work around for this purpose.
Thank you for taking time to comment
Thanks everyone for responding to me! :)
Hi, Julie - Thank you for the update, and I'm glad to hear you found another way to accomplish what you want to do! :)
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