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JohnBlum-86338c
Community Member
5 years ago

Maximum number of states

Hi Everyone,

What is the maximum number of states an object can have?

Will having a large number of states cause performance issues?

Thank you,

John

4 Replies

  • Someplace there is probably some sort of theoretical limit to the number of states, but I'm pretty sure it allows a lot more states than is practical to use. :) 

    It seems likely that when a slide loads, all the states of all the objects need to preload. At some point, I would think loading hundreds of objects would have an affect on performance, whether they were individual objects, or state objects.

  • MichaelHinze's avatar
    MichaelHinze
    Community Member

    I have created image objects with more >100 states and it worked just fine.

  • I currently have an object with 101 states and a timeout spinner appears in the last state box. The spinner won't vanish and Storyline returns an error dialog when publishing the project. It works nicely if I delete a single state.

    Anyone's guess!