Marker Icons

Hi Harri,

You can remove the shadow on the marker icon by right clicking on the marker icon and selecting "format shape" and you'll be able to change the shadow properties there as normal. 

Hi Ashley and Harri,

Ashley, I thought that would work, too. But I believe what Harri's saying is that the icon itself retains the shadow. Take a look at this screenshot. If you look hard at the default and no shadow icons, you can see that although I applied no shadow, the arrows...that is, the icons themselves...have retained a shadow. If I changed the marker to a custom 1, the shadow was eliminated, but I no longer have the colored button.

Since you can change colors after selecting a Marker Style, I thought, "well, just fill the shape...and voila - the shadow is gone!"  This is true IF you leave the icon black.  If you change the icon to any other color...the shadow returns!

So, IF you use a black icon  - you can get rid of the shadow.

Hi All,

How about changing the icon color? It works for me. I think the presets have their build-in shadows. You can keep the preset colors, but try and change the icon color. 

Kai

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for all your help. My issue is indeed with the icon inside the markers retaining the shadow. It looks like I'll need to experiement with getting the look I want with a custom marker.

It's more than a little annoying though as the pre-built ones were exactly what I was looking for (except for the shadow)

Thanks again

Very interesting discussion. Would be curious to know how/why this works the way it does.

Thanks Becky - I wasn't even thinking about the icon itself! 

It may be worth sharing your thoughts in the form of a feature request in regards to having markers that adhere more to a flat design principle (no shadow, no gloss, etc.) as those go to our product development team. 

Just to let you know I am also having this problem. I am trying to create a set of markers graduating from dark to light green - in the darker to mid green ones there is no shadow on the icon (the icon is white) but on the paler green markers it automatically appears! like it thinks you won't be able to see the icon or something. - I am submitting a feature request as well, thanks.

Thanks Emma for sharing your thoughts! This thread is a bit older and dealt with Storyline 1, but I assume you're on Storyline 2? 

Hi Emma,

No worries - I don't know how many feature requests we received for a particular item, but since you already submitted a feature request that's the best option.