Does anyone know how to make a shape move like the ticking arm of a clock? I know I have to make the object longer so the axis is farther back, but I can't figure out how to make it rotate one click at a time.
This might not be the *best* solution, but you could have multiple "hands" and have one fade exit while the next one (at the next number) fades entrance. I'm not sure if it is possible to rotate from an axis.
Thanks guys! If anyone is interested, I was inspired by one of the Guru winners, Diabesity. I'm always questing for ways to display text without bullet points and I really like one of their screens where a pointer moves like a clock hand and points to each block of text. I took something from each of you and got what I was looking for.
I doubled the length of my pointer and made the bottom half transparent.
Duplicated it five times
Positioned each one to be pointing at the next line of text
Used Appear and Disappear so I can move the pointer on a click
I'm willing to best there is a faster way, but I'm just happy I got to point B.
Actually, I made a mistake. The Diabesity training is excellent and I definitely got a lot of great ideas from it, but the training that included the pointer I've been talking about is this one. http://elearning-examples.s3.amazonaws.com/motivating/player.html
There are so many great elements to there. Check it out if you haven't seen it already. And the animated pointer is in the very beginning.
The animated pointer that was in the Motivation course is available from Microsoft Office as a free template. Its called Animated Pointer and Light-up Text.
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This might not be the *best* solution, but you could have multiple "hands" and have one fade exit while the next one (at the next number) fades entrance. I'm not sure if it is possible to rotate from an axis.
Hi Natalia,
Jade Kelsall shared a screencast & source file regarding this not too long ago - perhaps that will help?
Tom's Blog
http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/powerpoint-animations-made-easy-with-this-free-tool/
Flash Once is a great animation tool. I have used it many many times.
Thanks guys! If anyone is interested, I was inspired by one of the Guru winners, Diabesity. I'm always questing for ways to display text without bullet points and I really like one of their screens where a pointer moves like a clock hand and points to each block of text. I took something from each of you and got what I was looking for.
I doubled the length of my pointer and made the bottom half transparent.
Duplicated it five times
Positioned each one to be pointing at the next line of text
Used Appear and Disappear so I can move the pointer on a click
I'm willing to best there is a faster way, but I'm just happy I got to point B.
Actually, I made a mistake. The Diabesity training is excellent and I definitely got a lot of great ideas from it, but the training that included the pointer I've been talking about is this one. http://elearning-examples.s3.amazonaws.com/motivating/player.html
There are so many great elements to there. Check it out if you haven't seen it already. And the animated pointer is in the very beginning.
Thanks for sharing this post... I'm going to use this in my next course!!
Thanks Natalia - there are some cool things happening in that Motivation course.
Hi everyone,
The animated pointer that was in the Motivation course is available from Microsoft Office as a free template. Its called Animated Pointer and Light-up Text.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT010336615.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA010359443#ai:TC102478714|
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