Adding your own character to a RIse scenario

Would it be possible to add just a transparent "character"? It would allow developers to upload custom backgrounds with all details and characters already included and avoid using any of the inbuilt Rise characters.

Hi Zsofia! There isn't a way to remove the character completely from the scenario block, but you may be interested in this workaround video tutorial from a fellow community member, Matt!

• Using custom characters for Scenarios in Rise

Hi! Any news on this? We really need to either create our own characters or a better selection of the pre-programmed ones. My company is a 20-something fashion brand so there's only one or two of the characters we can actually use. Can we have some more young, fashionable people please?

Thanks for checking in, Mike! It sounds like you need more character selection in the Content Library -- I'll pass that along to our product team! In case you haven't seen this yet, check out this workaround video tutorial from a fellow community member, Matt!:

• Using custom characters for Scenarios in Rise

Thanks Alyssa! Yes we're going to have a go creating some of our own with our models but having better ones in the library would be much easier as having to go into the back end files adds extra time and complexity into the design process. For reference I've added some images of the type of characters we need - young, fresh and fashionable. As you can see nearly all of the current stock characters aren't suitable for us.

Me too, my company requires people that work at the company represented in eLearnings. It is a deal-killing shortcoming of scenarios that we cannot add our own avatars.

Ditto - I would use this feature All of the time if it were available.  Thanks!

Please add my vote for custom characters (or downloaded from eLearningBrothers.com) with audio support.

Hi there, add 1 to custom characters.

I've taken a look at Matt's tutorial which is a great Rise hack. I've tested it and it worked fine, this is a bit of a game-changer too as this goes from being a feature I don't want to use to a valuable tool.

My question is can we hack this further? 

In Matt's hack, you create your custom character, take the file names of the prebuilt characters in the scorm, apply them to your lovely custom character, and then put those files in the folder replacing the old images. So, say for example, instead of Rise looking for a .png file, could I create characters as animated .gif and replace them in published scorm? Is there somewhere I can update the scorm code to find the .gif version/files instead of the .png version?

Just keen to add my + 1 despite the fact it's clear that Articulate have probably abandoned this fairly necessary suggestion.

For those of us who like to keep our online Rise packages updated and ready to accurately export or customise to new SCORM based on client need, Mark's hack is just too much faff.

For a product that offers so much in-build customisation for varied cohorts, it's such a shame that there's such a blindspot with making functionality improvements to Scenario.