Edit motion paths

Hi Tom,

You can select the endpoint of the Lines, Turns, and Arc.  For the Arc you can move the separately when going left to right, but not moving up or down. I believe this is to keep it in an Arc shape. Circle, Square, Triangle, and Trapezoid cannot be moved as the start/stop are the same spot.

The freeform, scribble and curve do not have a way to adjust the end point without moving the start point to keep it in the same shape that you used. And as always, if you want these options changed, you can submit a request here. Hope this helps, let us know if you need anything further.

Thanks. But once again submitting another feature request for something that should have been a standard feature of any motion path option is about as useful as sandals for penguins. I guess we will have to wait until the next version of Articulate Storyline comes around to include this so obvious function. I wonder how much that upgrade will cost us. Grumble..grumble...grumble...

Hi Richard! If the solutions shared here with you do not assist, you are welcome to share your thoughts with our product development team here as Emily mentioned above.

Jean-Christophe, thank you for the illustrated workaround! That's very helpful.

Hi Jean-Christophe,

Thanks for sharing - the images are really helpful. I did just want to clarify one language/terminology element though - you said layers, but I think you're talking about the objects on the timeline? 

No worries - and thanks for the update. Didn't want it to confuse someone down the line who is looking to do the same! 

In fact, the start and the end points can be positioned separately, but only by dragging it with the mouse. Unfortunately this is very imprecise and that's the problem! If by selecting one point you could also use the keyboard for pixel-precise positioning, without repositioning the whole path, the problem would be solved.

Hi Carina,

It's certainly a situation and idea worth passing along to our team in the form of a feature request. 

Hi Alicia,

I know some folks have looked for increasing the options and edits available to motion paths, and there were some changes to it within Storyline 360. You can see the basic ideas here for editing and modifying the paths. There is also a bit more information in this article with tips and ideas for how to orient objects to the path so that may help you out as well! 

This is becoming an increasingly problematic issue for me. I am using multiple motion paths in my Story, and besides not having the ability to specify start and end points, size or rotation options when adding motion to items (which I have submitted as a feature request), I am unable to distinguish between two motion paths applied to the same item. I want to add a motion to move an item in one direction when the slide timeline starts, and then to move it back to its original position when a button is clicked. I have the option of reversing the motion path (after duplicating it), but then I am unable to assign it to the item as there is no way to see the paths I have created. Clicking on the item will only show me one motion path, and not all the paths that I have created for it.

The only way I have found to work around this is to duplicate the whole slide, and then create the duplicated slide as the "mirror image" for the reverse motion. This is a completely ridiculous workaround, as there is no way for me to judge where the first motion ended so that I can start the "mirror" in the same place and have it reverse.

As someone who loves Storyline, I am becoming increasingly frustrated with this limitation and the fact that I  have seen people requesting this ability for over 2 years now. I can use very basic editors and have the ability to specify exactly where I want an item to start on the X and Y axis and also exactly where I want it to stop. I honestly hope that this issue will be addressed soon as I believe it to be a core functionality to any e-Learning compiler. Motion and animation are at the very heart of Instructional Design principles these days. I was very excited about the launch of Articulate 360, but I have been underwhelmed by the new features and additions thus far. Lots of bells and whistles mean absolutely nothing when the basic functionality you expect from a compiler is lacking.