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New in Storyline 360: Emphasis Animations
Emphasis animations—the effects you know and love from PowerPoint—are now available in Storyline 360! These eye-catching effects like pulsing, shaking, and teetering give you even more ways to grab and direct your learners' attention. And if you're designing animated scenes or interactions, you'll now have even more options for creating the exact experience you're looking for. The sky's the limit with this feature!
Ready to take your content to the next level? Simply select your object, go to the Animations tab, and click the Add Emphasis Animation drop-down arrow to choose an animation from the gallery. It's that easy!
And here's a time-saving benefit: Thanks to this feature, you can now preview local JavaScript triggers, such as ones that retrieve or set the value of a Storyline 360 variable, to ensure they work as expected.
Excited to check this feature out? Articulate 360 subscribers can access these animations right away. If you don't have Articulate 360, just start a free 30-day trial. For more details about emphasis animations, check out this article: Storyline 360: Emphasis Animations.
Hello Everyone!
I'm happy to share that we have released a new update for Storyline 360 (Build 3.89.32618.0).
In this update, we have implemented a fix for:
- Emphasis animations didn't work after interacting with a lightbox and behaved erratically when looped.
As a first step, I recommend updating Storyline 360 to the latest version. Here's how:
If you have any questions, please let us know in this thread or privately in a support case.
Have a great day!
We have solved. Thank you! :)
Would love to try out this feature. However, how can I download the Beta version? I have the regular version. Thanks
This feature is out in public beta so you should see it in the regular version as long as you have updated to the latest release (3.84.31647.0)
Hi,
I have the beta version of storyline, but the emphasis animations are not showing, how can I force an update in storyline to get this feature?
If you click the dropdown menu next to your avatar on the desktop application, you should see an option to check for updates.
Legend thank you :-)
both those triggers should work
great new animations. Thank you team This will allow you to do beautiful things I hope that you will add those that are also available in PPT like transparency, darkening, color.... because there, we are really going to do great things and that will propel you far ahead of other competitors Francois
like these
Anyone come up with a clever way to stop an emphasis animation?
I'd like to loop an emphasis animation on a button *until* it gets clicked, at which point it should stop looping.
Hey Brian,
If you add a visited state on the button, and then have the animation loop on the condition that the state is normal. Once they click, it should go to visited and then the loop should stop.
Thanks for the quick reply Tom.. I'm using the default buttons which have visited states, and this was my first thought as well, but for whatever reason isn't working for me. I'll keep playing around with it.
Brian, was it the hover state that caused the issue for you? I am using cue points to trigger a teeter emphasis with a looping timeline. When visited, the item goes to state disabled. I have tried to only teeter if the state is normal, if the state is not disabled, and I've tried variables (if variable is / if variable is not). The disabled objects continue to teeter.
Hey Katie, if you haven't resolved this, I recommend starting a new thread and if you can post your file to see what you did, that would really help. Otherwise, your issue could get swallowed up by all of the comments here.
My problem ended up being user error... I had somehow added an additional emphasis animation to my buttons. When I deleted the extra animation it all worked.
From what I could see the second emphasis animation didn't seem to be accounted for in any of the triggers, which I thought was weird, but it's possible I accidentally deleted it not realizing what it was at first.
I used a similar approach to Tom's video he shared above for looping, with a couple of tweaks. My buttons begin disabled and are set to a normal state when specific slide layers have been viewed. I only wanted the emphasis effect to occur when the button was first set to Normal, and only if the button had not yet been clicked. Once the button was clicked I wanted to make sure that the emphasis effect would not trigger if the slide were revisited.
First trigger to start the emphasis animation (once the button state changes to Normal)...
Second trigger to loop the animation until the button is clicked the first time...
All animations are deleted after saving the project
If the project isn't working as it should, contact our support team and they can assist you.
I discovered something neat! You can use a hotspot as a trigger point to animate the emphasis animation. So, I added a motion path to the hotspot and created a wave effect for a row of icons.
- Setup row of icons (or other asset)
- Create hotspot
- Give each icon an Emphasis Animation that triggers on intersection of hotspot
- Set animation path of hotspot to intersect through the row of icons.
- Create button to trigger animation path of hotspot.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/2c78dd9f-83d1-4f17-855f-5ea131319ce1/review
Pretty cool!
