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AntPugh
Community Member
14 years ago
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Entrance animation/exit animation - can we do emphasis?

I would like an object in Storyline to pulse repeatedly from the beginning to the end of the timeline. In PowerPoint I would use an Emphasis animation - is there a workaround in Storyline?
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  • EricSantos's avatar
    EricSantos
    2 years ago

    Hi everyone!

    I have some great news to share! We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 84, we've included important fixes and new features.

    One of the new features we've included is: 

    • Choose from a library of emphasis animations that grab learners' attention with effects like pulsing, shaking, and teetering.

    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.

    Please let me know if you need additional help!

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GerryWasiluk
Community Member
7 years ago

Hey, Deb!  Even though I and others have been asking for this since Day 1, I try not to get disappointed by that (and I probably should not have posted what I did since it may have implied negativity). The length of time of a request should not be a weighing factor.   There probably has not been enough total demand for it, they may deem other things more important, or maybe there are technical issues.

I really have to remember it's not my software to develop.  It's theirs and they probably have a road map and goals for what they want to do.  User feedback via feature requests helps with that.  They pick their path and work it, probably adjusting it over time.  Our choice is to trust that process and wait or to move on to another tool, or come up with some workaround.

I bet they've been inundated with thousands of feature requests through the years.  Heck, if Articulate implemented everything that I wanted to see in SL, I'd keep them busy for a year or three at least.  But they can't do everything.  Like any software company, they only have so many resources for improving and fixing things--and also keeping up with technology changes.  I don't envy what they do. :)  It looks damn hard.  But I do think they do a pretty good job with it,

They have their processes and we have to trust they work.  I have no reason (or experience) to doubt that.  If you really want something, you need to enter a feature request and maybe professionally urge others to do so.  The more requests, the better.   Heck, I'm notorious for repeating a feature request or two from time-to-time. ;)

And there have been times when I was sure something I requested was popular with many other folks and I found out later that it wasn't.   (It's humbling to find out you're the only one requesting something. ;) )

Actually, one thing that I've always wanted since Day 1--more editable shapes--was sort of fulfilled this week with the SVG import from PowerPoint.  Having direct import of SVG or the shapes in SL360 would have been better, but I'm one happy camper with what we got.  :)