Layer wont show more than once
Oct 29, 2018
Hi all
Come across that dreaded point when working on a part of eLearning and I've gone 'trigger blind'. I've attached the slide that's causing me a pain. The 12 hours of building the rest of the course today probably isn't helping ha.
The issue:
Basically I've got everything working as it should the first time around so far. However if I try and do the same thing a second time around (so effectively a learner wants to do it again) the layer wont show. Everything else works again, just the issue with the layer (cust 1 layer)
How it's been built so far:
1) Click on 'cust 1' picture and it goes on the first motion path. The cust 1 picture state changes to 'view' which makes it larger.
2) Once motion paths ends it changes a 'cust 1 variable' to change from false to true. The 'cust 1 layer' is triggered to show once this motion path ends.
3) On the layer there's a pause timelines and resume to allow the animations in and out just for added effect. It resumes once you click the 'close X' button.
4) end of the timeline for the layer then changes the 'cust 1 variable' to change back to false and also to close.
5) trigger for second motion path, from relative start point' of the cust 1 picture as a result of the variable changing back to false in the previous step.
6) State of the cust 1 picture then changes to 'done' to show completion.
This is when if I try and the it again everything works (motion paths, states, variable changes) apart from showing my cust 1 layer.
If anyone can help that would be amazing. I don't want to have to change this because it's making what is essentially a 'click and read' slide less dull. I'm hoping it's just my preview mode or laptop playing up :s
Thanks in advance
Phill
6 Replies
Hi Phil, I think it might be a bug because when I add a trigger to show another layer, the first one works when reclicking on the first one. So I think you can continue on what you are doing (no bugs so far on multiple layers settings) and report this bug to Ariculate Supporting team.
Hi Joanne, thanks for taking a look at this. Little frustrating that it's a bug, but at least it wasn't me missing something obvious I guess ha. Had to start the whole slide again because even when I created another layer and trigger it then decided to not even show the layer. At least I wasn't too far into it, proves the importance of testing as you go I suppose.
It isn't a bug. What you need to do is add a hide layer trigger when the timeline of 'cust 1 layer' ends. You would add this trigger to what you have named as 'Group 1'. You need to place it after the Resume timeline trigger you already have.
David you have eagle eyes! brilliant, I thought I'd gone trigger blind because I thought I'd already added this trigger to the layer, oops. The fly out animation has given me the illusion I've done this. now working as it should. thanks alot
Glad you got it working!
You don't need the trigger just change the layer properties to hide layer when timeline ends. Both work the same way but a cleaner way of doing it.
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