Is it possible to make our own characters in storyline or using a third party program and import into Storyline? What would be involved if it is possible? Or, can we customize the look of the built-in library of characters. For example, I choose a character but I want a different hair color, glasses, or clothing. Can we change those things?
This will kill off a good product. Imagine everyone using the same tired articulate character offerings. I'd rather move to Captivate than live under this kind of proprietary nonsense. Talk about money over-ruling common sense.
You can bring in SWF interaction and videos of characters, to incorporate in to your course.
I have been using "character builder" with articulate suite in the past (should work in SL) and we are currently looking at some additional features using Poser.
This will kill off a good product. Imagine everyone using the same tired articulate character offerings. I'd rather move to Captivate than live under this kind of proprietary nonsense. Talk about money over-ruling common sense.
Captivate doesn't even have any prebuilt characters. And including them probably cost more money, instead of saving money, stock art isn't cheap. If you're willing to trade great customer service for a almost complete absence of it though, Captivate is waiting. I had to use it for various reasons technical reasons until Storyline, and am glad to finally shed the wretch.
As Phil Mentioned, you can use the States feature to build comparable interactions. Nick Russell has a wonderful example of how you can leverage additional resources outside of Storyline to achieve some great animation effects.
I've been using Articulate Storyline since it first came out and have managed to create several of my own illustrated characters. But I didn't stop there! I have managed to integrate my characters into Storyline with all the expressions and poses. I created a large library of props from articulates characters such as eyes, hair, clothes, etc. and also changed the color of the clothes so that I have the ability to swap between characters.
It's taken me a long time to create these props and to learn how to integrate my characters with Storyline. But it's been well worth the time I've spent. I know have over 100+ characters I can use and my library is getting larger.
Here is a sample of a presentation that I created just to see how crazy talk works with Storyline Chracters. There is a crazytalk watermark on the presentation because this is the trial version.
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Hi Robin, you cannot import characters into storyline at the moment.
You can create your own states for objects you import.
This will kill off a good product. Imagine everyone using the same tired articulate character offerings. I'd rather move to Captivate than live under this kind of proprietary nonsense. Talk about money over-ruling common sense.
You can bring in SWF interaction and videos of characters, to incorporate in to your course.
I have been using "character builder" with articulate suite in the past (should work in SL) and we are currently looking at some additional features using Poser.
Captivate doesn't even have any prebuilt characters. And including them probably cost more money, instead of saving money, stock art isn't cheap. If you're willing to trade great customer service for a almost complete absence of it though, Captivate is waiting. I had to use it for various reasons technical reasons until Storyline, and am glad to finally shed the wretch.
As Phil Mentioned, you can use the States feature to build comparable interactions. Nick Russell has a wonderful example of how you can leverage additional resources outside of Storyline to achieve some great animation effects.
Further to Hugh's point, here's another great example of one of our customers creating a new character (with states) specifically for Storyline:
Cory Side-Facing Character for Storyline
We love to see this kind of community initiative.
Hi Robin,
I've been using Articulate Storyline since it first came out and have managed to create several of my own illustrated characters. But I didn't stop there! I have managed to integrate my characters into Storyline with all the expressions and poses. I created a large library of props from articulates characters such as eyes, hair, clothes, etc. and also changed the color of the clothes so that I have the ability to swap between characters.
It's taken me a long time to create these props and to learn how to integrate my characters with Storyline. But it's been well worth the time I've spent. I know have over 100+ characters I can use and my library is getting larger.
So, I am a newbie...
Am I understanding that there is not an option to "import" your own created illustrations for a character?
Dick
Hello All,
Here is a sample of a presentation that I created just to see how crazy talk works with Storyline Chracters. There is a crazytalk watermark on the presentation because this is the trial version.
Thank You,
Doris Edwards
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