Shapes moving out of alignment in preview mode

Five years to have correctly aligned pictures? Really team Articulate? 

Hi Larry,

Thanks for reaching out here - this discussion is a bit older, so I had to dig a little bit further back, but I found the issue as reported in SL1, and I was able to replicate it as you mentioned within Storyline 2 and 360. Part of the issue seems to lie in the way in which I have to crop the original image to make the fourth of the pie and then get them to line up again, and that continued duplicate of the first image causes it to be more noticeable by the time I'm trying to line up the third duplicate.

Our team does continue to monitor the way issues such as this impact our customers and figuring out how a change might fit in with other priorities--so likely based on the time passed on this one, it seems it didn't rise to the top. I did report this anew to our QA team for Storyline 360 and determine if we can get a bit more information about the cause and ways in which it could be fixed. I'll be back in touch here once I have any additional insight to share, so I appreciate your patience on that! 

Hello, I am experiencing the same issue with Articulate 360 - the shape looks fine in edit mode but when I preview it is out of alignment. I've published the course for testers and they have noticed it as well.

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Grrr, Hi ya Alyssa.  All my items are local so that's not an issue.

The one state that did function as intended, I duplicated that state and items seem to stay in place.  This was very odd. I most certainly would have shared the file but it’s already overwritten.   

Not sure if this helps but I noticed that if you group 2+ items, the distance difference in x and y starts to slide away from the item's original position. The larger the distance the items are from the group's top left corner (or the origin I assume), the larger the offset is and visually becomes apparent. The interesting thing is the published build does NOT display these odd offsets at least in SL360. When upgrouped, all offset issues disappear in preview and in published.

But in "Andrea Opland" 's target.story in SL2 in this thread, the preview AND published build IS reflected with offset issues no matter what. Even when her shapes were ungrouped, these issues displayed in preview and in published. That's why I think her's is related to rotation/flipping issues and not necessarily to just grouping. 

There may be something going wrong in the parent to child transform calculations. Not sure as a lot of this is speculation.

My version in SL360 ver v3.17.16085.0

See my group offset test build attachment for example in SL360.

Hi, I've been having the same issue. I am working in version 3.28.18944.0 and save the project file locally and publish locally.

The issue has occurred with:

- imported pictures with other shapes stacked on top (as a group)

- icons stacked on shapes

- position of arrow shape in different states

The arrow issue I fix by editing the state again to place them in their correct positions (the position has shifted unpredictably twice). The arrow has two states, with the second state flipping the arrow to point in the opposite direction. When I am editing the states, I have both arrows aligned for a seamless flip; the x,y position for both are identical. Yet, when the state changes in preview mode and when published there still appears to be a small shift in position.

In terms of the stacked image/shapes I end up having to position it off kilter in edit mode (shown in attachment) to try have it align in preview mode and when published.

I have attached a screen shot in edit mode and preview mode. It's the grey circles behind the icon/oval shape that shifts.

n.b I did realise that the picture that I imported was from my onedrive folder. I saved a copy locally and replaced the images with the local file but still have the same issue.

Here are 4 examples...

 I'm experiencing the same issue with multiple courses.  I am working off my hard drive.

Hi Leslie,

I'm not sure that one more person saying "it's happening to me too" helps, however, it's happening to me too! :-(

I am noticing it particularly when using speech or thought bubbles. Sometimes the placement of the image moves in preview/publish and other times the text or other grouped assets do  - this can be subtle movement or quite drastic. In addition (see attached example) some of the image may also disappear. It happens to items that are grouped or as a standalone asset and across multiple projects. It's highly frustrating and a time consuming issue. 

I am working in Storyline 360 and assets and publishing are local to my laptop.

Attaching an example...

Best wishes,

Heidi