States for a group?

HI Eric,

I'm not sure if others are still subscribed to this thread, but it may help if you're able to share a copy of your .story file here so that we could see what you have set up. Even just that one slide, and attach it with the paperclip icon so that we can take a look. 

Hi Eric,

Here is a sample file where a character has a caption and when you hover over her, it changes to a thought bubble.  I added the caption to the Normal state, and I added a custom state called "What I Think" with a different character pose and a thought bubble.  I have a change of state character when the mouse hovers trigger.

Is that what you were trying to do?

Hope it helps!

Jill

Hi everyone! I have a circle with a picture laying on top.  So two images.  I want the user to click the circle to advance to either a slide or layer.  Simple enough.  However, do I have to have a trigger for the circle and a trigger for the picture on top?  If I just do the circle than nothing happens if they click the picture on top.  I found this thread because the obvious thing to do is group them but then you have the state issue that everyone is describing and I want to show a visited state.  Not sure if that explains it well enough.  I am essentially trying to mimic this:

http://pinchedhead.articulate-online.com/p/3796808074/DocumentViewRouter.ashx?Cust=37968&DocumentID=777a6439-a6f8-483e-a9fd-8b68aa044c06&Popped=True&v=1&InitialPage=story.html&content_token=e446f549-3579-4e21-a4a1-a93250632797&content_endpoint=http://pinchedhead.articulate-online.com/p/3796808074/&endpoint=http://pinchedhead.articulate-online.com/3796808074/tincanapi/&auth=e446f549-3579-4e21-a4a1-a93250632797&actor=%7B%22name%22:%5B%22%22%5D,%22mbox%22:%5B%22%22%5D,%22objectType%22:%22Person%22%7D&registration=4fb6bde6-d964-4f0d-b395-00e2ba247070&activity_id=articulate_course_id

Hi Al

create a transparent shape - with a colour fill set to 100% not a shape with 'no fill' that covers both your objects. Your object underneath will have the state you want.  Use the trigger on the transparent shape to change the object state - hope that makes sense and works for you

Thanks Wendy!

Wendy, it works great!  Thanks so much!!!

Thanks for the update Al, and glad Wendy was able to assist here! 

Just adding - this is very helpful when you want to create a button set of grouped objects too! 

Glad this helped you our Miranda and let us know if you need anything else. 

Glad that this thread is still assisting others Fletcher. Thanks for popping in :)