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Morph causing objects to fade even with same Morph IDs
Either the morph feature is still very buggy, or I'm missing something.
I built an interaction where the learner reviews how to properly fill out a disciplinary action notice document. A transparent box with red outline highlights each area starting at the top. Each time the learner clicks next it moves to the next slide where the box morphs to the next section. Text fills in the sections as they go.
The problem is all the text fades in each slide even though they have the same morph IDs, don't change in format or position on the slide, and have the same names in the timeline. I built the final slide, duplicated and removed the text that wasn't supposed to be showing yet for each of the other 4 slides.
I read somewhere that text boxes can confuse the morph transition so I have text inside totally transparent rectangle shape objects. Still no luck.
Any ideas? I've uploaded a sample.
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I downloaded and went through the scene but I'm not seeing what's out of place. When you say "all the text fades in," I take that to mean each of the instructional textboxes (Text Box 2) is showing on every slide but that's not what I see. Each slide has one Text Box 2 and only that one instance is showing on each slide. If you're seeing all of the instances display on each of the five slides, I'm not able to reproduce that.
I see the information of the person being disciplined is in rectangles but is that the information that needs to morph? I guess I'm also not sure what it is supposed to be doing that it's not, because the red rectangle is morphing to each spot perfectly on my end.
The text in rectangles is what I want to NOT morph, but it is disappearing and fading back in between every slide. The red rectangle and line is morphing as it should. I can't get the text to NOT morph though if that makes sense.
As Andrew mentioned, we're not sure of your intent. Were you looking for this effect?
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/a64ce099-ac7b-4abe-8394-c2e9c302a870/review
If so, you can't reliably do it with by morphing textboxes because:
- The morph effect is simple and only accommodates basic object changes
- While I believe you can shift identical text boxes, You can't do much in addition to the shift
- I've found text box morphs to be quite unreliable. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, all on the same exact slide set
To make this work, you need to layer five sets of 'text' objects that are duplicated across the adjacent slides. The main 'text' object on the display slide is normal, while those on the adjacent slides overlap that slide's main 'text' object, and they are made fully transparent. To make it work reliably, you need to make images of the text blocks (i.e., transparent PNGs) to use as the 'text' objects. Replace the text with the images, position between slides, set the transparency, and you should be good.
To copy across slides with the correct morph IDs, just copy the main object from a slide, and then go to each adjacent slide and duplicate it with CTRL-SHIFT-D.
I had an earlier example of this concept using images as a numeric counter instead of text boxes for the same reason.
Morph Animation Not Working with Background Image | E-Learning Heroes
Your modified project file is attached.
That is a neat effect that I'll have to add, but unfortunately is not what I'm referring to.
The text on the document fades in as the learner clicks next. My issue is the text then disappears and fades back in between slides. Even in your modified version, it all disappears between slide 4 and 5 and then fades back in. That's what I can't get it to stop doing.
I see what you're saying. Unfortunately, the behavior seems haphazard. I ran through the slides several times, with a variety of tweaks, and received consistently inconsistent results. Sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes not, but mostly it behaves as you describe. I feel it's an issue with how the textboxes (or anything containing text) morphs.
I'm not sure there is a reliable solution short of the image approach I described earlier. If I were creating your design effect, I would just convert the text to images and call it a day. Images seem to be more morph-stable.
That was my experience as well, consistently inconsistent 😂
Thank you for the image suggestion, I will give that a go.
Storyline morph cannot handle text that changes even bold unbold, it then substitutes in a fade out fade in.
If you keep the text the same then it shouldnt fade. If you cannot do that then wyou may need to look at what Nathan and Andrew suggest.
