How to... select an avatar as a main character for your course

RE: Slides

This is probably the most common way since it allows you to make all the changes at the slide level.

 Demo | Source

Great sample. One question.. can someone explain how the state changes are setup to show the other characters (see red below)? I've setup all triggers and slide master layers but when I go to change the Content slide, it doesn't allow me to change the state to Christian or Christy without changing the character for Brian as well. I suspect it is something very simple but what am I missing.

Thanks!

Richard

Hi Richard,

When you click on "Edit state" you're able to go into each state and change the character, position, or even remove the person entirely. Since these are Photographic characters, you may not have them all installed as Storyline comes with Atsumi as the one photographic character although you can purchase other ones. 

Ashley,

Thanks!  I guess I just needed a cup of coffee and a quick post on the forum to solve the problem!

Richard

Working without coffee should likely be outlawed. It's inhumane.

Glad I was able to help. 

I agree with Antje, would love to see the Slide source code David!

Oh, this is a bit dated, but I'll ask David if he may still have this for you :)

Hey Antje and Mike,

Try the links again - David was able to update them for you :)

Hi David,

I'm still new at creating courses and I have looked at your example, but I still have a question. How do you add a different character under another character's state? 

Hi, Katie, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨

If you want to have a different character in a state, here are the steps:

• Insert a character in your slide (Insert -> Characters)
• Under States, click Edit States
• Click the page icon to add a new state. 

• When the state is created, right-click the character in your slide, and choose Replace Pose. You will then be able to choose a different character from the content library.

Let me know if this works! 

I have read these and  many others and I think I am getting brain overload. It use to be easy 

Set Character to value Jennifer / when the user clicks Jennifer

I am working on a new file and the trigger is so different and will not work like I want it too.

Set state of Character 1 to Jennifer / when the user clicks Character 1 

On my first project, it showed both  avatars as character 1. I am creating a new presentation and it is showing both character 1 and 2.  I can not get the avatar to follow on the next slide. 

I haven't worked with Master slides either and what I am reading this is what I need to be doing! Any help would greatly be appreciated. 

I should also explain that I did hide my characters at one point, that didn't help. 

I added both, just to see if that was the culprit. Gave Greg his own states even. That didn't work!