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MathNotermans-9
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18 days ago

Morph transition on Feature Roadmap

As the Morph transition made it to the Feature Roadmap for Articulate 360 ( finally! ), i do think it is good to post what we want/expect it to do, and what is a miss in our ( the users ) eyes. That way Articulate can keep that in mind while developing.

For that we first need to divide Storyline elements in groups/types ... so we can discuss how we expect that type to morph.

TYPES
1) Images
2) Storyline shapes
3) Video
4) Text ( SVG )
5) Imported SVG
6) UI elements

As on the roadmap it is defined as 'transition'. So i expect it to be exactly that. A Morph transition between 2 slides. So next would be defining the 'attributes' of the defined types we expect to morph.

ATTRIBUTES
A) Position x/y
B) Scale
C) Rotation
D) Fill color and line ( actually all Format Shape settings )
E) Transparancy

If for all the types the given attributes are morphable, i am happy.
I expect 3) Video to be non-morphable.

2) Shapes and 4) Text i however expect and hope to have all attributes morphable.
Do comment on this with your hopes and dreams for the Morph transition and lets hope Articulate listens.

  • The Morph Transition will indeed be a transition between two slides, just like in PowerPoint.

    I expect that early versions will land in the private beta builds in Q1 of next year RebeccaNazareth.

    I think you'll be happy with how it works based on your requirements list MathNotermans

    • MathNotermans-9's avatar
      MathNotermans-9
      Community Member

      HI Jesse,

      Will a Powerpoint with Morph transitions when imported/converted to Storyline have its Morph transitions converted properly to Storyline Morph transitions ???

      • JesseTaber's avatar
        JesseTaber
        Staff

        We certainly hope to support importing these from PowerPoint, but haven't yet looked into how they present themselves within the PowerPoint model, so I can't promise anything yet. 

  • Cannot wait for this! It has been a long time coming. 

    Slightly apprehensive we will have to wait a long time still, based on how long some other features have been posted on the roadmap.

    However....

    I would agree with the above points you have made. In reference to point D), I think transparency value would be high on the list as it could then be used to highlight or fade different elements of a slide, e.g. a step-by-step process.

    In regards to position, I wonder if an object intersecting another object during the morph transition would be picked up by a 'object intersecting' trigger. I assume not, unless the final landing point of the moving object was on the target object.