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- IlianaHadzhi051Community Member
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. :)
Welcome to E-Learning Heroes, Iliana! What a fantastic first contribution here ⭐️
If you have an example of this, you're also welcome to share the .story project file here for other community members to look at for reference.
Thanks for popping in here to share that tip!
- NourHassanCommunity Member
this is amazing Liana, I cannot thank you enough, it looks amazing
- APAcademyCommunity Member
That was SUPER helpful! Great idea and very simple. I wanted to turn off the pulsing after a few seconds, so I made a static shape beneath the pulsing one, and set timeline to have pulse from 0-7 seconds, then static from 7 seconds to end.
- IlianaHadzhi051Community Member
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.
This is great! Way to contribute!!
- MehakBhalla-870Community Member
Thanks Iliana, just what I was looking for. Cheers!
- TracyBritanCommunity Member
I tried this with a rectangle to highlight a selected picture and it worked great!
Thanks for posting.
- JoeBrewer-5f583Community Member
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.
- DianaMyersCommunity Member
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.
It's not very high-tech, but it might work depending on your needs. Good luck!
- AdenaWilsonCommunity Member
I know this from a while back but this was just what I needed! Thank you.
- DavidIstvanCommunity Member
Glad it was useful ;)
- JazzmineOCommunity Member
Yup. This is what I did in another project too. Work arounds... I was hoping there was an easier way. :(
Oh well.
- NancyWoinoskiSuper Hero
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
- OwenHoltSuper Hero
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)
- DavidIstvanCommunity Member
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.
- RyanKruger-3a1fCommunity Member
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. - HowiePearsonCommunity Member
Nancy Woinoski said:
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
Thanks for that Nancy, i can see myself using that. It wouldn't work for my project unfortunately.