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Making an item spin on a central axis
Good afternoon everyone, I'm currently working on a course where I'm trying to make a circular diagram spin on a central axis. It needs to rotate 90° after click on a trigger, four times until it's ...
Actually Trina, that windmill is the exact motion I am trying to achieve, so not that complicated after all!! It is the 2D effect that I'm looking for rather than 3D...
Although I can't see the animation you/Mike used to achieve that effect?
Glad to hear that's the effect you're looking for. That .story file was all Mike Enders' doing. I was only instigating behind the scenes. ;-)
Mike says the key to this effect is having an object that is designed in a manner so that there is a true center point. Otherwise you get a wobble. He created the windmill blades in PowerPoint, using a 4th blade that is hidden (to create a true center) and then he exported it as a .png and imported it into Storyline.
The effect is achieved by the blades having multiple states and each stop state has a "spin" animation effect applied. The buttons trigger the state change thus animating the blades.
Super cool, right?
Let us know if you need any more help with this one!
