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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 one slide, duplicate the slide, and make changes to the shapes on the second slide, the Morph transition will smoothly deform the shapes from the first slide to the next.
This transition is POWERFUL for animation. I feel that small animations of this kind are especially important for a product like Storyline. In a sense, the ability to build animations is one of the key features that I feel is missing from Storyline. If Articulate would consider adding the Morph transition to Storyline, it would allow users to animate the graphics on the screen with triggers, and I believe that would open up new worlds of possibility with Storyline.
Is this something you all would consider adding to Storyline?
Totally agree Julia. So, do we need to bombard Articulate with a feature request for morph before they will take us seriously? The number of users impacted, I believe, would be every user - the vast majority of instructional designers would appreciate this, even if they're not aware of it yet!
Hi Tina and Julia,
We treat all replies, comments, and + 1's in these E-Learning Heroes Discussions as "feature requests" too. That way we're capturing the voice of our users across multiple input points and truly looking to have many diverse voices represented. We take each submission, comment, and reply seriously to understand the value it would bring to all our customers.
Given the continued conversations in this discussion, our team will be discussing this feature again. That's one of many steps in our process, but I hope it reaffirms that we're here and we're listening.
If there is anything else we can do to help, please let us know.
Yikes! I was hoping this request would be possible already. Please add me as a +1 for this request. It's a little frustrating that it is available in PowerPoint and NOT in Articulate.
I would also like to add my vote for Morph in transitions. I use it all the time in ppt and I think it would be yet another gamechanger in Storyline - I'll even open a bottle of champagne to add bubbles to help it rise to the top of the wish list if that helps!
I am using a workaround until this gets developed. I create the slides in PPt and export them as a movie file and use that in the background. Please prioritize this feature.
Yes, I do the same...but it's definitely not sustainable. This was something that Captivate was able to do in the early 2000's. I know that it may be a "More advanced" feature for the average Storyline user, but I feel that there are SO many benefits to having this feature and many would use it more often
I've been using Storyline for just two weeks. and I can already see how Morphing would be a great help to me having done a lot of it in ppt.
I think if anyone is a serious ppt user and has improved their presentations with morphs they couldn't fail to see how useful it would be here.
Good Morning, All;
I am going to +1 for this feature as well.
If you take a look at how many companies are using Articulate (SL3 and up) as their primary development tool based on job descriptions and how many subscriptions that Articulate must have, I find it amazing that just because we take the time we are only "a small percentage of users". Personally, the less time I have to switch between dev products to create a module the better it is. Also, for downstream work if another ID has to work on the content but does not have the same tools I do, it becomes more difficult to update or modify.
Actually you can create Morph animations with Storyline.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/a447cc04-524a-40cb-8345-aa86660f3637/review
As seen in this sample from me you can morph SVG shapes. Using GSAP Morph you can morph any given shape in Storyline to another shape. Also imported shapes will work. If anyone wants a tutorial to see how to get that done with Storyline and GSAP let me know and i make one.@mathnotermans - this is brilliant. Can you provide a tutorial to see how this was made !
+1 for Morph transitions! Thank you.
For sure...get started with GSAP first... check my profile...and go learn GSAP. Then when your somewhat familiar with Javascript in Storyline... visit the GSAP site...
https://greensock.com/gsap/
Get a Club Greensock account and download the plugins needed... because off the bat not all the extra plugins are included in Storyline... only the bare bones GSAP is... MorphSVG is one of those extra plugins you need to get this working...
If your at that point...having access to GSAP's plugins... and need help... im here :-)
