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Jurassic Park Course
Hi Heroes,
I have just finished creating a new course using a moving panoramic background to navigate through the course.
http://jordanashportfolio.s3.amazonaws.com/Jurassic%20Park/story.html
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Hey folks, so I have been using this for inspiration to try and create something similar, and have got most of it figured out, the thing I am stuck on it being able to recreate the clickable signs.
I've created the shape to click on, but cannot get it to move at the same speed as the background. The animation path is the same length and the times are all the same. Any guesses where it might be going wrong?
HI Steve. The way it is done is that you create your object (sign or whatever it is with it's different states) and then you group it with the background that you move as one. You don't move the item separately. The nice thing is that it retains it's interactivity and you can move it with the entire background. Richard Hill in his demo explains this idea well but he calls it nested animation (you will have to play the game to get that learning piece). I am not certain that is how Jordan has done but it works well. I will see if I can provide a short demo.
Hi Steve, I had a very similar issue to what you are having. I had grouped the signs to the background but had hotspots on separate motion paths in front of this. Like you I was finding that these hotspots were progressing at a slightly slower speed.
To get around this just involved a lot of trial and error of moving the hotspots starting position until it moved in sync with the sign below.
It sounds like the method that Richard had described should work better though. It was very frustrating having to test the positioning over and over again.
