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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?
Articulate CEO talked a lot about transparancy. But the Feature List and whether things like this ever make it to that list or not and why not are still very obscure and intransparant ! Reading that Storyline 360 64-bit will be backwards compatible with the old 32-bits Storyline makes me think.... mmm... just making it compatible with 64-bit...nothing more...
Math, they don't care about this product. I follow Articulate and their CEO on social and this has become abundantly clear from the nature of posts.
I am going to assume here that the Morph feature still has not made it to Storyline. :(((
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This post ws started 6 years ago! What is the progress on the morph transition please? It would be a game changer for animation an is much needed, thank you.
Yes it would be a welcome addition.
+1 for me.
Let me start by saying I haven't looked at this, and certainly haven't tried it. But doesn't PP have an export to .MP4 option? If so, can you create a video then use that inside your SL slide?
I'm guessing that any export to MP4 output may be low quality, but perhaps worth a try.This is actually what I end up doing all the time. It would just be nice to do it right in SL, or even just to know why we can't do it in SL.
If this is ever going to be possible then Storyline needs to have all the animations PPT has at its disposal. Which makes me suspect this is not close. Even then this will only work in a linear course. And will break when you jump around the menu. It is very useful in PPT and I can definitely see places it would help in Storyline. I would however, prefer to see more granular control on animations natively in storyline.
Yes, you might be able to do it in PowerPoint, IF you have the right version. But, that means maintaining content outside of the storyline file. SL already mimics PowerPoint, and the ask is, why morph is not able to be added.
Not sure how "maintaining content" is an issue. My company produces video for importation into SL all day, every day. Each project is a separate directory, and all the media (mages, sound files, and videos) are stored in that project directory.
Considering how storyline has been thought out and developed, there is little chance that it will be possible, it would require a complete rewrite of the source code of the application, I sincerely think that this is not possible...:/
Why a morph animation isn't included is a good question. My guess is, unless there is some model that could be dropped in, programming a morph procedure would be fairly difficult.
Look at the "spin" animation. It only lets you spin 90°, 180°, or 360°. I can't imagine why they didn't add a 10° increment. It would be exceeding easy to add. Forcing spins into right angle turns is stone age. I can do it with JavaScript, but it is kind of a nuisance and creates problems if someone drags the scrub bar.I am beginning to wonder if Articulate has some new big thing they are working on that is taking all their attention given how they are neglecting their existing products & ignoring their users' feedback. There are very basic features that have been requested for nearly a decade - features that all of their competitors provide - but the devs are just not paying attention.
I know I am having a hard time justifying to my boss that we should renew our licenses next year since we can get more of the things we want using MS PowerPoint and the Techsmith tools
Hey there, Phil. When SL first came out, I was surprised to see that the interface was practically a clone of the PP interface. My SWAG is that they reached some agreement with MS to use that. But using all of MS's animations might create a copyright problem for Articulate. Just a guess. Hope all is well.
Hi Russ I hope you are well. I cannot answer that, that is something for the Articulate team. I know there is a lot more to come with animations, the roadmap even shows physics in animations
