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Rotating a Character's pose
I'm new to E-Learning and still in my first couple of weeks working with Storyline 2.
I've got a character that changes states and his second state looks a little crooked to me so I want to rotate him. However when I try to edit the state the option to rotate is grey-ed out.
Normally a rotating handle will appear when you hover over the image box but this isn't appearing and if I go into the manual rotation option, it's not allowing me to do it there.
I've attached a photo so you can see what I mean by "grey-ed" out.
Any help is much appreciated!
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Hi Jessica,
It doesn't appear that you can rotate a character within a state if you've duplicate the original normal state to create more states. What you could do instead, is edit the state and remove the original character and add in a new version of the character with the expression and you'll then be able to rotate that version of the character.
Hope that helps.
Thanks, Ashley! I ended up creating a new layer for my character and rotated that character instead of the state and then showing/hiding that layer at appropriate times.
I am loving this Articulate community! You guys do great work, looking forward to more interactions in the future.
Happy to help Jessica andthat you found a method that works for you.
Even five years later, this tip is helping. Thanks, Ashley!
Is it possible to have 1 of your states orientated in a different direction? In the example attached, I want the "listening" state to be facing to the right, but it seems I can either have them all left or all right, not a mixture of both.
Michelle,
I followed Ashley's instructions and was able to reverse a character state.
- Copy the character from the state you wish to reverse.
- Close Edit States.
- Paste it onto the stage and flip it horizontally.
- Copy it and paste it into the state you want.
- Align it with the original so that the flip is logical.
- Delete the original.
HINT: You may need to send the new copy to the back layer to be able to select the original.
Good luck!
That worked! Thank you so much Glenda. :)
I've just come across this problem myself, which is undoubtedly a bug rather than expected behaviour. Do these things ever get fixed?
Hi Nicola! I am sorry for the issues you are experiencing rotating a character.
I have no news to report on the bug, but we are tracking it and will keep you informed if anything changes.
In the meantime, here's a quick screen recording demonstrating a workaround for how you can rotate your character. Ashley and Glenda's instructions above could help you too.
Hi Andrea, my issue isn't specifically with rotating a character, it's rotating an image in a state when the state is created from another state. The rotation handle does not appear, and only the resize handles appear and work. The only way to fix it is to delete the image and re-add it to the state.
