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Moving Objects Between Overlapping Objects
Hello!
I'm building an activity where potential answers move on motion paths around the screen. The correct answer must be selected only after it overlaps a specific point on screen.
The issue I...
I’m not in a position to be able to make a sample, but it ought to be relatively simple. The principle is that you need three copies of the gradient. The answer travels behind gradient 1 until it comes to the hoop, then in front of gradient 2 until it comes to the other hoop, then behind gradient 3. The difficult part (depending on how you have it set up), is getting the gradient to match. For example, if you can use gradient 2 as the slide background, then you can make the other shapes just the right size, fill them with background, and place them on the sides. Otherwise, you can make one big gradient, export it as a graphic, import it, duplicate it, and crop the copies to the the size you need. You can use scrolling panels to make things appear and disappear in the middle of the screen, but the edges have to be straight, and I don’t know if you can use intersect triggers, so that probably won’t work for you.
Thanks for your reply! I got myself to the point where I broke the gradient up into several pieces which almost fixes the issue, but there's some additional work that needs to be done in cleaning up the cropped sections to be an exact match. I've got a dedicated graphics person on my team so I'll be getting with them to work some magic.
It would be great for Storyline to have a trigger like, "Bring [X Object] to [Front] of [Y Object] when [X Object] intersects [Y Section]", but my case is probably so rarely wanted that it wouldn't ever happen!
