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Click to start an animation
Hi there,
I feel like this used to be a thing, but I can't seem to find it anymore. How do I use a trigger, like click on arrow to start animation of a shape. I'm trying to do a 'click to reveal' using multiple shapes, but only want to trigger the animation Fade, to bottom, after the user clicks on the shape or icon of my choosing. I know I can leverage 'Move' but I prefer the smoothness of the fade. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Rebecca Trainor (The Training Trainor)
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TrainingTrainor​: It sounds like you want to trigger an Exit animation. Those run based on the object's timeline ending.
If there were only 1, you could pause the base timeline just before the Exit animation starts, and then trigger the timeline to resume when you wanted the animation to run.
To trigger Exit animations on multiple objects at different times, each object would need to be on its own layer, so it would have its own timeline.
- Shorten the timeline of each layer to the length of the Exit animation. Or just a bit more, as desired.
- Add a trigger to each layer that pauses the timeline of the layer when the timeline of the layer starts.
- In the Slide Layer Properties, deselect "Hide other slide layers" so that all the layers show.
- On the base, add triggers to show every layer when the timeline starts on the base.
- On whatever objects you want, add a trigger to resume the timeline of the appropriate layer when the user clicks the object.
That's demonstrated in the attached file.
Of course, this gets trickier if your click and reveal also needs to show layers. So this might be more trouble than it's worth. In which case, just use motion paths to move objects off the slide. Or get JavaScript to do it. (Sorry, I can't help with that.)
Couple of simple ways set the object to hidden and then add a trigger to set to normal, or put on a layer and add trigger to show the layer.
