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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?
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I have some great news to share! We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 98, we’ve included essential fixes and new features. One of the new features we’ve included is:
- Engage learners with fluid transitions that seamlessly animate objects, shapes, and other content between slides.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You’ll find our step-by-step instructions here.
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its been a while, can we get an update on this feature?
Hi Ivy!
Thanks for checking in on this!
I don't have any updates to share at this time as our team has been prioritizing other features. I've included your voice in the feature report and will update this discussion if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap.
For your reference, here's a closer look at how we manage feature requests.
I think the only way we're going to get any traction on this is for everyone who wants it to add it as a feature request: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request
Otherwise, nothing is going to happen (it still may not happen, or course). I actually wonder whether it's simply not doable in Storyline.
I would like to add my name to the 5 year long running list of people who would love to see Morph added to Storyline.
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 Articulate is rebuilding Storyline into a 64 bit application...this is the moment to reconsider a slide based approach to a approach that make a morph transition easier.
As is the slide based approach is out-of-date anyway. Most tools use the concept of scrollable webpages nowadays !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.
Over four years of users asking for this simple feature, and yet.... crickets from Articulate. Really disappointing.
I also want to add support for the desire for Morph. iSpring has it and it is hard to get behind Storyline w/o it.
