Timeline in Layers
Jan 10, 2024
By
Honey Turner
I'm struggling to find techniques that work for triggering actions (specifically state changes) in layers. I'm not seeing clear statements of what is only for use on the main timeline and what can be used on the layers.
I've added cues to the layer timeline, but it's reusing numbers from the main timeline, so I think it's waiting to trigger when that timeline reaches that cue.
I've tried triggering based on an object leaving the slide or timeline ending on the object, but neither of those triggers worked.
The only solution I found was to create each state as a separate object, placed at the desired point on the timeline. But, that wouldn't work if I was trying to do something more complex than a state change.
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You can get more useful and specific answers if you attach your .story file (or at least that specific slide) here.
Alright, I put together a sampler for this.
Slide 1 is the broken one.
Layer 1:
The picture should change when the arrow starts fading. It's triggered by cue 1.
The picture should change again when the circle disappears. It's triggered by the circle leaving the slide.
Layer 2:
No triggers. But none of my layers are allowing me to use Set Timeline to longest object.
Layer 3:
No triggers. Same timeline issue. Set timeline to default worked but, snapped some items on the main timeline back to the beginning when I did it. I fixed it, then did it again and it snapped them back again.
Main timeline:
The video visually vanishes before the sound. There's no animation on it and I don't see anything covering it, so I'm not sure what would cause that.
Slide 2 is working fine triggering actions based on layer cues. I can't see a difference between it and the first photo change on Layer 1.
Try this. There may be some corruption in your slide, or maybe I created the states differently.
I copied all three pictures, and deleted the original. I set them all to have animations in and out. Then I copied the Mouse, edited the beach states. I copied the Normal state and called it Mouse. I deleted the beach and pasted the mouse in its place, then did the same for the tiger. Creating them that way makes them work.
The enclosed video shows how I shortened the timeline on the second layer. As I was dragging the endline, I hit the left arrow, and it jumped.