I'm seeing a strange connector line in Story View for a current project. It's all fairly straightforward with a linear route through the slides but for some reason Storyline shows the attached branch like view. Any idea what the problem might be? There are no layers in use. The strange link is between slides 3 and 4.
It means nothing, unless you are too OCD to permit it to look that way.
The user will navigate through the course following the path of the arrows, and there is only one path out of slide 3, and only 1 into slide 4. there is no branch, and no problem.
I can't say why it looks like that either - but the lines indicate the trigger order in terms of how you've set it up to jump from one slide to the next or to a specific slide. You can also look at the trigger panel to determine the slide it's jumping too (next slide would be the next slide in order) or if jumping to a specific slide that slide number.
Not OCD really...but this is the first in a whole series of similar modules and the client will get the final Story files and is bound to complain if this 'anomaly' is present in ALL the files.
Ashley I've attached an example Story file to see if you can see the problem.
Thanks John for sharing. I took a look at it, and saw you're using the "restart course" trigger - and that seems to be the one that causes that extra spacing. You'll notice when you click on the slides in your project with that trigger (slide 1.3 and slide 1.4) that they show the red arrow to the next slide and back up to the start of the scene. I don't see the same spacing issue occur on a new project when using the same trigger - so I'm not clear on what's causing it in your file.
I do wonder if you would want instead to use the "jump to slide trigger" and allow it jump back to the first slide? Are you using the "restart" to reset variables or all the slide statues or something similar?
Thanks Ashley....that work around sort of worked but for some reason I still see that strange link on the final slide. Guess it's just an anomaly that I'll have to live with! As Walt says - it works fine!
Glad to hear it John - I didn't see the same thing while using the restart course trigger in a new file, so it may be something else within your file? You could always look at importing it into a new file to resolve any odd behavior.
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john,
It means nothing, unless you are too OCD to permit it to look that way.
The user will navigate through the course following the path of the arrows, and there is only one path out of slide 3, and only 1 into slide 4. there is no branch, and no problem.
Hi John,
I can't say why it looks like that either - but the lines indicate the trigger order in terms of how you've set it up to jump from one slide to the next or to a specific slide. You can also look at the trigger panel to determine the slide it's jumping too (next slide would be the next slide in order) or if jumping to a specific slide that slide number.
Not OCD really...but this is the first in a whole series of similar modules and the client will get the final Story files and is bound to complain if this 'anomaly' is present in ALL the files.
Ashley I've attached an example Story file to see if you can see the problem.
Thanks John for sharing. I took a look at it, and saw you're using the "restart course" trigger - and that seems to be the one that causes that extra spacing. You'll notice when you click on the slides in your project with that trigger (slide 1.3 and slide 1.4) that they show the red arrow to the next slide and back up to the start of the scene. I don't see the same spacing issue occur on a new project when using the same trigger - so I'm not clear on what's causing it in your file.
I do wonder if you would want instead to use the "jump to slide trigger" and allow it jump back to the first slide? Are you using the "restart" to reset variables or all the slide statues or something similar?
Thanks Ashley....that work around sort of worked but for some reason I still see that strange link on the final slide. Guess it's just an anomaly that I'll have to live with! As Walt says - it works fine!
Finally fixed it....definitely an issue with that Restart Course trigger.
Glad to hear it John - I didn't see the same thing while using the restart course trigger in a new file, so it may be something else within your file? You could always look at importing it into a new file to resolve any odd behavior.
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