Entrance animation/exit animation - can we do emphasis?

Interesting that you mention the "easy to implement" stuff. 

Lately, I was also wondering if a once-a-year, "low-hanging fruit" type of release might be possible.

YMMV :), but I'm also prone to give them a lot of slack because so often they have to react to things totally out of their control--a technology changes, a supported browser changes something that breaks something else, a major LMS changes something, a standard changes or dies (e.g., Flash).   And addressing things, perhaps some unexpected, like that may mean diverting resources from adding new things, I don't know--I'm just a user.  Part of why I don't envy them sometimes.  :)  Has to be tough.

And, fairly or not, sometimes success breeds increased expectations.

I'm a former Captivate user. I'm creating scientific educational material. I really need the ability to add an animation for EMPHASIS (not at the start and end). Can we have an update on when we might expect this?

Articulate, as policy, usually never reveals if or when a possible feature might be implemented.  If I were them, I'd probably do the same.  (Heck, I'm a longtime beta tester and I have no idea what's coming.  :) )

The best thing to do is EVERYONE (and I mean everyone) who'd like this feature submit a feature request and include a brief, professional sentence or two business case of why the feature is needed.  The more honest voices, the better.

Thanks, as always, Phil, :) but I really prefer not to.  :)  Haven't hacked JavaScript in years and have no intention to pick it up again and re-learn things.  Just an old foggie and curmudgeon.

This is something, IMVHO, that should be in the tool itself.  To be honest, it is one of my Top 10 most severe disappointments with Storyline.  Just because something can be done with JavaScript is not an excuse to not put a much-needed feature in the tool IF many, many, many, many users are asking for it, IMVHO.  :)   Of course, YMMV! :)

Most of the users that I know would run if I told them to do JavaScript. :)  Even fewer would spell it right.  ;)

This would be so so so so helpful! Please add me to the vote. 

Yes please. Have been hanging out for emphasis animations.

It's been a while on this thread, but...

on the off-chance that someone finds this thread, looking for a way to make something Blink from start to end...

I attached a little demo.

These are the steps:

Make a Layer:

Add a box
It will be blinking, so make it look like you want

Timeline for box: 1 second duration
Entrance Fade in animation 0.5 seconds
Exit Fade Out animation 0.5 seconds

1 trigger
 Show this layer when timeline Ends

(layer autohides when new (blinker) layer appears)

On main screen add trigger at top
Show Layer (the one you just made above) when timeline Starts

 Hi Kim!

You can make it a hollow box with the line set as a dashed line, and surround your object of importance with the flashing dashed lines (or a solid line - or a colored box, or with a picture embedded, like I did above)

I put hollow flashing boxes around items on the screen that I want the user to click on. They click right on the box, even though it is hollow (go figure!).
So...
I don't have to add a hotspot. I put the trigger on the blinking hollow box to open another layer, etc.

hope that helps
dave

uhhh.... nope... turns out those hollow boxes don't keep their clickable boundaries very well. I ended up putting hot spots on top of the hollow boxes. That way the running ants (ok, more like ants running in place) were not involved in the clicking.

dave