Trigger + exact timeline time?
Jan 04, 2013
Hello!
I love storyline, but the timeline is now a little bit underestimated :( it's the most useful tool for every program in editing animations, videos or something, and in storyline it's usage is very limited. Or I dont know how to use it properly?
The function I lack most is when I want to put a new trigger - I have only "when timeline start/end". Where is usage for cue points? Why I cant have option "When time is..." and put a second in it?
This way, instead of making ten captions, I can define states for caption and tell the Storyline to change them over time. Yeah, of course I can put ten captions, arrange it, even group it so they don't take so many space. But which way is faster?
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Hi, Mateusz -
You can't trigger based on an absolute time but you can approximate this with dummy objects off of the stage. Creating a shape that starts at a specific time, you can trigger when that object appears (when the timeline starts for the object). I do this all of the time. It's not too bad
The only problem I encountered with using dummy objects is that if the user seeks using the seek bar is that if they seek past the exact moment the dummy object appears, the trigger won't go off. Do you know a solution for this Steve.
Thanks Steve! That's the tricky solution worth of attention and using in future projects
However, timeline should be developed further :)
btw. Get used to me! I'll have many many more questions for sure in future
Cheers!
If you make the dummy object a little bit wider on the timeline (1 second) it should trigger OK.
Hi Mateusz, there has been a lot of discussion about the timeline and many of us have put in a request to add triggers to cue points on the timeline. I am hoping that this feature will be introduced in the next major release of the product.
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