Storyline animations and variables in quizzes

Hi Jamie,

I think part of the issue is that the built in variable you're using, Results.ScorePoints, does not get reset if the learner gets a question incorrect. My suggestion is to remove the conditional trigger in the base layer to set Q1, Q2, Q3... to true, and instead add a trigger on the Correct layer of each of the screens to set the Q!, Q2, Q3... variables to true.

Thanks David,

That solved part of the problem. This is way better.

While in the Correct layer I added a Trigger to Adjust variable Q1 =Assignment Value True When User clicks Object Continue.

Then I moved that Trigger to the top of the triggers.

The motion path jumping issue remains as now all the correct answers result in a hop down the road.

Is it that all the triggers on the Correct layer are triggering at pretty much at once ... so the variable that makes the car move, triggers at the same time as the hide layer and jump to next slide triggers?

Hi Jamie,

OK, here's another way, and I think this is much closer to what you want. Basically, I've changed your triggers so that on the Correct layer, when the user clicks Continue the layer is hidden, and then launches the motion path animation on the base layer. I removed the trigger that advances to the next screen from the Correct layer.

I didn't do anything with the variable triggers, but with this method, you don't need them.

On the base layer, I added a trigger that advances to the next slide when the animation ends, and removed the trigger that originally was starting the animation. 

One thing I did not do is adjust the starting points of the car to match exactly where the animation on the previous slide left off, but I think it is getting there.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks David!

This is exactly what I was hoping to accomplish.

I can adjust the starting and stopping points - just didn't want to spend the time doing that until I was sure the rest of it world work.

Just to help me understand this - it looks like each variable is still being used on the Correct layer to switch to true which in turn begins the car movement. But you are saying that these are redundant and are not actually in use - as the Layer trigger to Move the car on the emotion path is what is actually triggering the beginning of the car moving?

It must be because I've deleted the Adjust variable trigger on the Correct slides and everything works the same. Yippee!

You totally rock! I'll delete the rest of the variable triggers and tidy the start and stops and post for other to use :-)

Glad it's working! And yes, setting those variables is now redundant. The trigger on the Correct layer is what starts the car animation. Just didn't want to delete them in case you were planning to use them somewhere else.

Ok, this is the best I can get this  sample . On one curve the car does a kind of 4-wheel drift :-O And the car jumps a bit with each new slide. But overall it works lol

Can't really tell from the Word doc, but glad it's basically doing what you want!

Wrong file. Doh!

Nice!