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Animation in Storyline through the Morph Transition
Some time ago, PowerPoint came out with a transition called Morph that literally morphs shapes, colors, strokes, graphics, etc. from one slide to the next. In other words, if you build a design on o...
First, my name is on the list of people who desperately want this feature. I use PPT to create animations of words or images, record them, then use them in my Storyline, so I get it.
But to play Devil's Advocate for a moment, in my opinion this MORPH transition request is unlike the other feature requests we make, which are often smaller extensions of existing functionality, or new functionality in targeted functions, like a new trigger parameter...
The MORPH transition, as I think about it, is a massive ask.
- Currently, every slide is a standalone creation. To even create MORPH would mean first building a massive linking database of every asset, how those assets exist in all slides, positioning data, it would be a massive expansion just of reference data.
- Then, transitions currently occur as effect between slides applied to the prior slide last screen to the next slide first screen. What we're asking for in MORPH is for the transition to be IN the slides. Maybe I'm wrong, but that sounds like a complete rewrite of the transition technology as a whole, another massive ask.
Just the first two points make it seems crazy costly to pursue programming-wise. And add to that the stuff I can't imagine. Phew.
Articulate, prove me wrong and show them it can be done, but I for one, much I as I'd love to get this feature, doubt it can ever come to pass.
