Hi, I'm new to storyline but i loved the features after trying it for nearly 5 days. My teaching process have been lot easier with Storyline. Thanks alot. However, im trying to create a flipbook (similar to Engage but with interaction) in storyline for my studies, but i don't know how. I tried importing the flipbook file in Engage to Storyline, still it was not working as how i wanted (flipping). Please help me. How can i create a flipbook using Storyline from scratch, or any template available. Thanks alot. I appreciate it.

Hi Subashini - if you already have a flipbook interaction that you created in Engage, you should be able to import the .intr file into Storyline using the steps in this tutorial. Keep in mind, though, that when you import from Engage, the Engage content is only supported in your Flash output - it's not supported if you publish for HTML5 or the Articulate Mobile Player on an iPad. Another alternative would be to build your flipbook-style content right in Storyline. This might be the better approach, because then it will work for Flash, HTML5, and iPad output, and if you ever need to edit the content, you wouldn't need to open up Engage to do it. Here is an example, and the source file is attached in case you'd like to adapt it for your own use. For the graphics, I just imported some of the existing assets from this free PowerPoint template and modified things slightly, such as giving the corner of the page a little hover effect to make it look like the page was curling up a little bit. You could easily modify and expand on this...like if you wanted to change the color of the cover, you could go to the slide master (View > Slide Master) and just change the fill color on the black rectangle shape. Good luck with your project - we'd love to see what you come up with!

Hi Jeanette, Thank you so much. Will try to create the flipbook now and inform/send you and the team of the output. I really appreciate your help. Thanks again ...

Hi Arturo, the book image was actually built originally in PowerPoint, and you can check out the original source file here. When you draw something like that in either PowerPoint or Storyline, you can select the objects and press Ctrl+G to group them, and then right-click the group and chose Save As Picture. Most people like to save their homemade graphics in PNG format because it preserves any transparency. Attached is a zip file containing PNGs of the book front, book back, and post it note.

Hi Becky - yah, it's just an image. The one in that project is white, so it works fine with a white background but not so great with pages that have other colors/patterns/textures. Attached is a different version that Mike created, where he knocked out the white part so that it's transparent and can be used just about anywhere.

Becky - regarding using a page curl effect on objects that represent patterned or textured page paper images, there are a few directions you could go with that. One approach would be to use a graphics program to knock out the gray "underneath" part of the page-curl image, so that when you insert it on any other shape, whatever's actually behind it will show through. Another approach would be to use PowerPoint to create your own pagecurl shape (without the underneath part of the page) and use that. This basically involves drawing a shape and then using the Edit Points option to make it curvier. The Edit Points option isn't currently available in Storyline, so if you went that route on a Storyline project, you'd need to right-click the shape in PowerPoint, save it as a PNG, and then insert the PNG into your Storyline project. Hereare a couple way to do it: http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/courses/creating-the-chapter-label-graphics.aspx or https://player.vimeo.com/video/204871215

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RebeccaFleischC
Community Member
13 years ago
Tx, Jeanette. Your opinion counts for me! I'm working hard to train my eye. This forum helps a great deal. Appreciate your replying to my question. Plan to take what you showed me with the shadows and make page curls for all 4 corners.
GeertDe-Rycke
Community Member
12 years ago

Jeanette,
Thanks for sharing

Geert
JonXie
Community Member
12 years ago
Thanks for sharing.
LisaWard
Community Member
12 years ago
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am only 2 weeks into learning Storyline, and I am learning so much by looking at samples such as this one.
LaurelThomas1
Community Member
12 years ago

Hi, I'm trying to use this flipbook example, but I can't figure out how the .png has a hover effect! The Storyline sample with "click to turn" text has it as just a rectangle, but there is no object trigger. ?? I can't figure out how to adjust the size of the page curl. If I adjust the size, it only changes the text box. I don't see that it's grouped, so I'm totally lost.

Thanks!
JeanetteBrooks
Community Member
12 years ago
Hi Laurel. Select the "click to turn" textbox and then click the States tab below your slide. You'll see that a Hover state has been created there. If you're not sure how to create or modify a hover state, here's a tutorial that should help: https://player.vimeo.com/video/149069215 In the flipbook project, rather than just modify the appearance of the textbox, I replaced it with the pagecurl graphic.
LaurelThomas1
Community Member
12 years ago
Ah, HOVER STATE! Thank you so much, that was what I was missing.
SimonFulber
Community Member
12 years ago

Thanks for this, it was a big help in a project I'm working on. I am attempting to recreate the flipbook as layers rather than new slides. Any tips?

S.
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
12 years ago
Sounds fun kellycalark! Glad that Neha's post is assisting you
HeatherMurphy
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi,

When I viewed this example, the trigger from the Book Cover to the first page of the book worked fine, but when I downloaded the source files and tried to preview the project (using Storyline 2), the trigger wouldn't work.

The same problem also occured on the Back Cover. It is such a simple trigger to jump to the next slide (although it is a grouped object), so do you have any ideas as to why would this occur? Once you are on the first page, the 'next" and "previous" page triggers to advance the pages work fine.