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FLIP BOOK / ROLL PAGE ANIMATION / TRANSITION
So i gave it a first attempt in making a Flipbook-look-alike.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/0ed74bed-69bf-4917-b5de-a63a3b8dc846/review
Biggest issue is that Storyline has no clue whats on next pages. So you do have to have the next ( and previous ) page available on a page to create a custom effect like a page flip/ page turn effect.
The sample is far from ready... the turn effect is not perfect and a lot of more work involved to get this to something usable. But as you can see it works.
If enough interest in something like this by fellow users/developers im gonna spend some more time in it to share a completed version. Possible the BETA versions with WAAPI and Morph transition upcoming have some options to make something like this. Will share this in the BETA groups too.
I do think the upcoming Morph transition will give a quite similar effect as a page turn when used on groups in a page.
If you did use a JS library to produce a page turn/curl effect on the current slide, then there is a possible workaround for SL's lack of knowledge of upcoming/previous content. If you build out your flippable book as a set of slide layers on one slide (instead of a collection of different slides), then you can have the layers preload which makes all of the previous and upcoming content available at once. I experimented with this once when testing a horizontal scrolling environment. By using layers, I could freely flow between the different content sets. It seems reasonable that you could combine a page turn/curl effect with two sets of content to produce the effect you are seeking.
