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Help with New Morph Transition
I'm trying to determine what I'm doing wrong. I created two similar projects using the Morph transition: PowerPoint and Storyline.
In the PowerPoint version, the photos move elegantly and smoothly. In Storyline, the morph seems to work like a fade transition.
What am I doing wrong? I've attached my Storyline file. I want the photos to move the way they do in PowerPoint.
The morph doesn't work with crops, when morph doesn't work it replaces that part of the transition with a fade.
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Same here, the morph transition works for shapes but with photos or images it doesn't.
I can't even get it to do anything other than shape size. If I try to change the shape, it just does the fade out/fade in thing
Sure wish they'd come up with a TWEEN animation where you can morph one shape into a different shape over time.
That's the only thing I miss about flash
The morph doesn't work with crops, when morph doesn't work it replaces that part of the transition with a fade.
Thanks for mentioning the fade when image is cropped Phil. I think there needs to be some training offered on the Morph transition as soon as possible, and how it differs from the functionality we're used to in PPT. I would also like to see the ability to change an object's ID to match the ID of an object in the previous slide: this would allow morphing for simple shapes, like a circle to a triangle.
I've also found that on shapes with a shape effect on, the effect or shadowing warps behind the merge.
Any update on this team in relation to training? I notice there is a little segment in Tips & Tricks #112 but it got cut short. It would be really good for an update or more training on how we are to use this feature. Especially without us spending hours learning it.
Bummer, Now I have some shapes morphing and some fading 🤦♂️
Hi FelixFranke,
Thank you for reaching out!
- Do you have additional objects included in your shape's normal state?
- What shapes are you using? Do you notice if this only occurs on the base slide or the slide layer?
We are currently tracking a bug where the morph transition is not working on objects that include extra objects in their Normal State. As a workaround, we recommend that folks group objects to the base slide. Here's a quick visual.
We'd be happy to take a closer look at your .story file to confirm that this behavior is related to this bug. You can share your .story file with us privately in a support case.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Hi Lucina,
What I saw is apparently expected behaviour (I may have found that in another thread, actually). I have a slide, which consits of lines and shapes (circles) (it is a sort of a flow diagram. getting those to morph is a great "Whow"-effect to indroduce changes in the workflow). The lines fade out and back in (actually, they just appear, but they don't have an entrance animaton), the shapes I have, they morph as expected. As it happens, I only have circles here, but I have tried with other shapes like rectangles, triangles and so on, and I found that morphing small circles into big triangles did not work as moothly as it could. So as long as you stick to the same shape and just change colour and size, it works fine. Changing the shape results in fade behaviour. No idea if that is expected...
My solution for the current project (quick and dirty, I have a tight deadline atm), copy-paste the lines into paint.net and copy-paste them back and - bingo, I have an image, which morphs. It just needs to flow to a new position, so it's nothing too fancy.
Much quicker than searching for a more sophisticated solution.
So as I said, according to what Phil wrote, what I see is expected behaviour.
