Pulse Effects

Hello,

I figured out a way to make any picture/object pulsate. First I set the entrance and exit animations of the object to fade and adjusted the time of the animations (I used 0.5 cause I didn't want it to be too fast or too slow and it works quite well). After that I created 2 triggers - one of them is to change the state of the object to hidden once the entrance animation completes and the second one changes the state to normal when the exit animation completes. It works really well - tested it both on pictures and shapes. :) 

Thank you!

Here's a simple slide I made with what I suggested. The speed of flashing can be controlled by changing the duration of the entrance and exit animations. 

Is there a reason Articulate hasn't created a "Pulse" animation? I think it would be awesome. It's a simple subtle way to call something out. 

Hi Howie,  I wanted to use something similar on a previous project, so I settled for a series of objects with a glow.  Each only lasts 0.75 seconds on the timeline, but it does give a pulsing effect of sorts.  You can play with the object timing and entrance/exit animations to alter the speed or look of the pulse. 

Published slide

It's not very high-tech, but it might work depending on your needs.  Good luck!

I don't think so Howie but there is a way to use the markers for navigation and set them to pulse when the timeline ends. I created a screener showing how this can be done. Here is the link if you want to take a look. http://pinchedhead.com/blog/?p=1529

You could use photoshop or gimp to create an animated "pulsing" gif. Then use it in combination with button states &/or variables to control its behavior (i.e. toggling between a static image and the animated gif image)

Actually, there is a way to make images pulse. Just as Diana did, create overlapping images. Then, create a fade-in animation entrance animation and a fade-out exit animation for each images in a sequence, just like with the glow.

Hi Nour!

I just tested Iliana's course as well and I am seeing that behavior in the HTML5 output, but the Flash output works as expected. The preview for SL2 is Flash as well, so that explains the match-up there.

There are a few examples for creating a 'pulse' animation on this thread as well if you'd like to take a look.

Set the pulsing object to .5 seconds fade in, .5 seconds fade out. I did a shape with 50% transparency. Ensure it is arranged appropriately behind/ahead of other objects on the stage.

Place this object after all other objects on the timeline (if everything ends at :30, add this from :30-31, extending your timeline by 1 second).

Add a cue point on the timeline at 30, and a trigger for the slide/layer: 
Jump to cue point (whatever yours was) on this slide/layer when the timeline ends on this slide/layer.

This will replay the fade in/out of your object indefinitely.

Thanks for that Nancy, i can see myself using that. It wouldn't work for my project unfortunately.