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How can I "edit points" for freeform in Storyline
I am not able to find "edit points" option for free form shape in Storyline. Can you please help?
Thanks,
Payal
68 Replies
- MichelleMcKi995Community Member
+1 for this feature
- MauraSullivan-9Community Member
+1 for this.
- JordanPerry-3b1Community Member
+1 for this feature.
Coming from Captivate, I am used to being able to customise freeform shapes as I often would use these as hotspots (outline and highlight a specific area of an image when the user interacts with it). Surprised it hasn't been implemented yet!
- EllenSlavitz-1fCommunity Member
I'm having the issue that Mike Bethany describes above: I can't figure out how to close a shape so that it doesn't have little ends sticking out. And, yes, being able to move the points is much needed.
- LeeHarperCommunity Member
You can double-click at the end of making a freeform shape to close the path. It's worth leaving the last straight section of the path to be the part that's closed by Storyline. That way, instead of double-clicking at the same point where you started, Storyline builds the final line of the shape for you without any extra points.
- EllenSlavitz-1fCommunity Member
Thank you for this answer.
- AukalenCommunity Member
+1 Please!
- RonGabrielson-5Community Member
+1 as well.
- LeeHarperCommunity Member
+1 for this too.
I would definitely like to see this feature added. Surely it's quite a fundamental part of drawing shapes, that you can edit them afterwards? I'm currently building an application that involves lots of shaped freeform hotspots to go over an underlying graphic and text. I'm now doing foreign language versions where some of the text behind the original freeform shape is now longer in another language. This means having to recreate the freeform shape from scratch and copy all the associated triggers, instead of what could have been a simple tweak to the original shape.
This wouldn't be too big a deal but I have to do this on 19 slides containing around 8 - 10 shapes each.
- EllenSlavitz-1fCommunity Member
Yes! Thank you, Lee.
- PaulaObrien-3a7Community Member
Shucks, I spent an hour trying to figure it out. In Captivate I can hold down the alt key and drag a shape point to a new position, and in my Adobe PS, Illustrator, I can also do so. I'm trying to show my company's computer screen on an image of a person sitting at the computer. The screenshot needs to have the angle changed to make this work elegantly.
- AukalenCommunity Member
Your best option is to work in Illustrator and export your work as SVG. Then import to Storyline.
- ChrisCliftCommunity Member
Aukalen is unfortunately right. This has been a feature request for many years now, so it looks like it is never going to be added!!!! You can do regular shapes, squares, rectangles, circles etc, but anything complex there is no functionality for.
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