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Pulse Effects
I know the markers have them but is there anyway i can get other shapes to 'pulse'?
Thanks David for sharing here - and this is an older thread, but the ideas are still valuable to have. If you've got a sample file to share here with folks, that's always a good idea as well.
Sure Ashley, here it is!
Another way: add some markers behind your object, so that only the edge of the markers show. Not very pretty, I guess, but still might be useful. See attached video, where 4 markers are placed behind a button.
another solution is 'pulse' (fade in and out), see screen video attached.
Thanks for popping in to share Gil :)
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!
this is amazing Liana, I cannot thank you enough, it looks amazing
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.
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!!
Thanks Iliana, just what I was looking for. Cheers!
I tried this with a rectangle to highlight a selected picture and it worked great!
Thanks for posting.
oooh, it works fine in the preview, but when i publish the file it doesn't work, it goes hidden after one time then it doesn't appear again, could i be doing something wrong ?
Hi, Nour!
I know what might be the problem. The thing with articulate and the timeline is that whenever the timeline finishes, if an object has an exit animation, it will disappear. You can escape that by setting the timeline to be a lot of seconds (and you know the user can not spend that long on the slide). Unfortunately, I don't think there is another way.
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.
Thank you Liana for your explanation :)
thank you Leslie, yes now i can see why......thank you also for the thread :)
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.
