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 back into it's original position. Anyone have any idea how I could do this? I guess the answer will be motion path, however I can't seem to figure out how to make the rotate rather than move in a circle.

Ant, You can't add an animation to an object already in a state. However, you can copy and paste an item (that already has an animation added) to a state and the animation will run. So the basic gist in the example above.... 1. Add the object to the slide and then add the quarter turn spin animation. 2. Copy object. 3. Create a new state "Stop 1" and then paste the object to that state (deleting original object). 4. Duplicate Stop 1 to Create Stop 2 and rotate the object 90 degrees. 5. Repeat step 4 as necessary 6. Remove the animation on the original object on the base layer. I hope this helps! Mike PS. I used the basic spin animation (quarter turn) and not a motion path.

The windmill has states, each state has a quarter spin animation.

Hi Ant. Sounds like you're trying to build something pretty cool! I've been noodling this one with Mike Enders and we're not sure you can get the effect you're looking for with motion paths since they aren't 3D. Mike shared with me the attached example he created for a DevLearn session showing how you can get a 2D continuous rotation effect—although I'm not sure that's what you're looking for. I also found a previous discussion highlighting some ideas for achieving a 3D rotation effect. Some of the ideas involved using PPT to animate the effect, while other folks suggested using Javascript.Keep us posted on what solution(s) you ultimately employ to bring your design to life.

Here is a quick variation of Mike's file that allows for continued rotation and starting/stopping. The 'starting/stopping' part is still rough but the mechanism works.

Hello.. After some experiments based on the methods shown by Mike, Trina & Michael, I came up with this method to simply it further. Hope this helps. Basic is same - A shape with 3 sec spin. It has 2 more states - S1 & S2 with 3 sec spin each. Now instead of the box & motion path, I have used JavaScript to change the variables at 3 sec intervals and added trigger to change states when the variables change.

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AntPugh
Community Member
10 years ago
I don't know about my object spinning... but my head certainly is!

Ok thanks very much for the step-by-step guidance Mike, and also for your input Michael. I will work through this and let you know how I go!
CalvinLo
Community Member
10 years ago
this is a crude way of doing it using the pie shape and 8 states. done in ASL1. Is this what you have in mind? can't see what the others did (no ASL2) so if it's the same then don't mind me.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33387236/site/spinner/story.html
OwenHolt
Super Hero
10 years ago
I cheated in ASL1 with my See and Say template. It has a spinner in the middle that does more or less what you described but with more stops. I used powerpoint to do the animation (rotate) and saved them as videos (WMV). I then placed the videos in my SL file and triggered them to play based on some other action. I also used the movie completion as a trigger. Worked like charm.
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better-courses/see-and-say-course-template

But now that I have upgraded to SL2, I might go back and update the file to use the new animations that are available to me. So happy to have finally upgraded. Now if only I had some time to play....
Jerson-Campos
Community Member
10 years ago
Is your only option to animate it in SL? I usually use Flash or After Effects to create more complicated animations. I actually started completely animating the intros for my modules (with objectives) to give it a little more pow using After Effects.
AntPugh
Community Member
10 years ago
Thanks guys for the responses guys!
MichaelHinze
Community Member
10 years ago
Here is one more option to spin objects with a description of the setup here.
- PeterMattsson
  Community Member
  10 years ago
  This is exactly what I'm trying to solve. How did you do this. I can't find your description cause the link is "broken"
  - MichaelHinze
    Community Member
    10 years ago
    
    Peter Mattsson
    
    This is exactly what I'm trying to solve. How did you do this. I can't find your description cause the link is "broken"
    
    Here is the direct link to my brief blog post: http://blog.keypointlearn.com/2015/09/17/rotating-objects-in-articulate-storyline-an-experiment/
ChristiePollick
Community Member
10 years ago
Thanks so much for your contribution, Michael! :)
PeterMattsson
Community Member
10 years ago
Thanx!

I will try to figure out how you did this with the triggers and so on ...
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
10 years ago
Glad you got the help you needed Peter, let us know if you need anything else.
ChristiePollick
Community Member
10 years ago
Thanks for helping Jennifer out here, Michael! And Jennifer, please feel free to let us know if that is what you had in mind or if you would still like further assistance.
- JenniferSader
  Community Member
  10 years ago
  Yes, thanks, I was able to build something similar using a moving object that was the same color as the background so as not to distract.