Forum Discussion
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?
Nope. Miguel isn't "Staff." Look at the road map published above by Phil, who is.
Articulate is all about the accessibility and the templates. Zero interest in going back and improving or shoring up dated existing product, regardless of input from current users. From the size of the road map, their development team must be pretty tiny. Meaning, no bandwidth.
The roadmap is bland, it's boring and most of all, it's relatively easy.
At this point, we can give up on this one. They don't wanna and they not gonna.
You may want to reframe how you think about Articulate's place in your L&D platform. Instead of being the cornerstone of course design and delivery, relegate it to one spoke in the wheel. Learning Experience Platforms are rapidly shifting course authoring tools to being only one of many arrows in the quiver. And there are course authoring tools coming up that integrate just as well into these platforms, with more features and faster turnaround.
Elblearning.com is one to watch. The graphic on their home page gives a good overview of how course authoring tools fit into a larger L&D strategy. No, I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Just a representative example.
Articulate is resting on its laurels and milking their cash cow.
Well said Julia.
I turned my nose up at iSpring a little in the past but having been using it more lately due to Articulate's state of inertia I'm surprised with the extent of its animation options compared to Articulate's.
No affiliation either.
I have been working with Lectora untill it was bought by the Elearning Brothers ( now Elblearning ). At some point they shifted their focus in development on tools that were in the hype of the moment ( CenarioVR ) and somewhat lost focus on their main tool ( Lectora ). When ELB aquired Lectora from Trivantis i hoped on improvement. It didnot happen and as ELB and Lectora were not the most widely used tools in Europe ( for freelancers and in jobs ) i switched back to Articulate.
Is the one better then the other ?
No.
Both are tools, both companies have pluses and minuses. Development wise both are NOT top notch. Both tend to bring out bugged versions too early too soon. As Julia says... do check the competition. In your company checkup on whats needed and what works with your LMS or LRS. Find tools ( and people ) to help you get the desired results. Donot forget open source tools and software.
Over four years of users asking for this simple feature, and yet.... crickets from Articulate. Really disappointing.
I am 100% supportive of a morphing function on a slide based presentation.
Scrollable webpages do work if you want your user to simply just read information and scroll through activities(web-style). And, I think Rise360 does a great job of that.
How-ever, we've found that if your training involves "Story-telling" with changing screenshots etc, Storyline "slides" are still the method of choice.As an enthusiast GSAP user, i dislike the lack of easing and better controls in Storyline animation. Considering that ALL Storyline animations including the new 'Emphasize' things are basically controlled by GSAP internally, i really do not understand why Articulate doesnot give the power of GSAP to its users. As its there under the hood.
I support that! I've been trying to duplicate the effect with motion paths, but it's really clunky and not a great effect.
Hi all,
This feature hasn't bubbled up to the top of our roadmap, but we're still listening to the feedback, so I appreciate you adding your voice here. Here's a bit more about how we work to prioritize feature requests.
So where is this bubble on the priority list?
I am in total agreement - I would like to see more animation and especially things like a morphing capability.
Thanks, Matt, Maria and Brady for sharing your +1s! We'll keep you all posted if this is added to the roadmap.
Would also welcome this.
Wow, powerpoint morph is very powerful. Incredible. Check out "Create Effective Microlearning in Record Time" 8:50 - 18:00
Having this feature would be a major step forward in reducing our design time. Though I'd want it to morph between layers :-) Very cool.
