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States of an Object in Storyline 360
Yesterday, I noticed that when I was working on adding states to an object, the object appeared much smaller in the Normal and New State box. Up until yesterday, the object, always appeared to fill the box and look like the size it was on the slide. Today, I tried to change the state of a freeform object and the object was so tiny, I couldn't see it at all. I noticed there was a plus sign that appeared on the top left hand corner of the object on the slide, that I hadn't seen before either. This made me wonder, if I turned on a setting that is causing this problem. Does anyone know why this is happening and/or how to fix this issue?
Thanks,
Kelly
As Phil suggested, if you paste additional objects into a state, then the state thumbnail will shrink all of state's content to fit. It's especially noticeable if you include something far away from the main object. It can also be a hint that you included something into your state that you did not mean to.
The small plus is a register mark, and indicates the top left corner of the original object's area. If you edit a state and delete the original content, the register can help you realign the position of new content.
I see that if I have pasted something else inside the state
As Phil suggested, if you paste additional objects into a state, then the state thumbnail will shrink all of state's content to fit. It's especially noticeable if you include something far away from the main object. It can also be a hint that you included something into your state that you did not mean to.
The small plus is a register mark, and indicates the top left corner of the original object's area. If you edit a state and delete the original content, the register can help you realign the position of new content.
Thank you for your responses. This is great information as I didn't know these tips to remember when applying different states with objects.
Best,
Kelly
Along this same thread, I wanted to ask another question regarding how to create an interactive slide that I am envisioning. I have an image and I want the user to click on parts of the image to learn more about each part. I want the parts to highlight and/or pulse to signal to the learner to click on those parts. Then I will change the states of those parts once the user has clicked on them. Also, I will create slide layers with the connected information to inform the learner about each part of the image.
I know I could use markers to indicate this but I wanted to have the learner interact with parts of the image. I tried using a Freeform shape to outline the part of the image but it didn't seem very smooth. Is there another way I could complete this interactive slide?
Kind regards,
Kelly
Kelly, I'm sitting outside at Disney World so I don't have a computer, but if it were me I would make a copy of your original image, crop out the sections/objects you want to interact with, edit the images down to just contain the object leaving a clear background, and save them individually as transparent PNG files. Then, use the original image as a base and overlay the smaller images, aligning them with the base image. That way they blend in perfectly. You could attach some kind of emphasis animation to each object image, and/or maybe a hover state change. You could have them grow, pulse, shake, glow, or whatever. On clicking you could hide each overlay, or change their state to something 99% transparent if you still wanted them interactive.
You could use most any image editor. I like Krita, which is a free and easy to use offline Photoshop-like editor. There are probably a number of AI-enhanced online tools also.
Hi Nathan,
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and advice. I appreciate hearing how you would approach creating the interactivity I am hoping to achieve with this slide. This is just the information I needed to move forward with this slide.
Thanks again and have a great day at Disney World!
Kind regards,
Kelly
Thank you, Steven!
The E-Learning Heroes Community is so helpful and supportive!
I hope you have a great week too!
