Trigger a change to a character state

May 08, 2012

Hi All,

First, I have to say how much I love Storyline. I have used a lot of different content creation tools, and this is by far my favorite yet.

I do have a question, though and I'm sure there's a simple answer, but I haven't been able to get it to work the way I want.

What I'm trying to do is trigger a change to a character state at a certain time in the timeline, without needing any user input.

i.e. at frame 90, change character 1 state to happy

I understand you normally use triggers or a combination of triggers and variables, but I can't seem to figure out a way to make it work. Seems like it shouldn't be hard to do, but I can't get it.

Is there a way to do that?

Thanks

Aaron

10 Replies

Justin Wilcox

almost 12 years ago05/08/12 at 5:33 pm (UTC)

Hi Aaron and welcome to Heroes! I think a simple way to do what you are trying to achieve can be accomplished by using two versions of the same character on your slide. Here's a screencast showing what I did. Hopefully this helps you out:

Aaron Chase
Author

almost 12 years ago05/08/12 at 5:50 pm (UTC)

ahh, good idea. Thanks Justin.

Tom Kuhlmann
Staff

almost 12 years ago05/08/12 at 6:00 pm (UTC)

If you have a bunch of state changes then you could do it this way where you just trigger state changes rather than swapping characters on the screen. Both ways work, though.

Aaron Chase
Author

almost 12 years ago05/08/12 at 6:14 pm (UTC)

Tom,

Perfect. Clever idea using the shapes off screen like that.

Thanks for your help!

Aaron

nitish prasad

almost 12 years ago05/08/12 at 7:30 pm (UTC)

Thanks Tom,

Had been wondering how to do something like this for some time now.

Jamie Garroch

11 years ago03/04/13 at 7:38 am (UTC)

I too would like to say thanks for a great product and add that I've also been looking how to do this. I was looking at cue points first but it appears that these are 'just' playhead alignment tools and not related to trigger events at all. Assuming this is the case, I think that's a great pity as it would be the easiest way to add triggers to the timeline and do whatever you wanted with them. This shape thing in this thread is a good workaround but given it's more work than should be needed, it's highlighting something fundamentally missing from Storyline. Hope you think cue point triggers is worth adding to your roadmap!

Patricia Thompson

almost 11 years ago07/14/13 at 9:08 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the great advice Tom! It would be a nice feature to have the capability of linking state changes up with cue points on the timeline though.

Linda Hayden

10 years ago03/03/14 at 7:05 am (UTC)

Thanks Justin!

Justin Wilcox said:

Hi Aaron and welcome to Heroes! I think a simple way to do what you are trying to achieve can be accomplished by using two versions of the same character on your slide. Here's a screencast showing what I did. Hopefully this helps you out: