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Storyline Motion Path End Point
I am trying to modify a scribble-line end point. I can "grab" the red dot and move it but it moves the entire scribble-line path. And maybe I'm not ACTUALLY grabbing the red-dot end point but I don't know how to tell or how to do it other than by zooming in and clicking directly on it. What I'm trying to solve is to only modify the final end landing location. I have also tried using the X-Y coordinates and get the same result. Is this a known issue and is there a work-around?
As a side-note, because I want to have the picture use an entrance animation as it first appears and then move it two different times during the slide, I have made it a group item (as I discovered researching a different problem). So the picture within the group has the FADE in and the GROUP has the MOVE action when a cue point is reached. I don't think that should have any connection to the problem of modifying the move's end point but I guess it is possible.
Side note #2... I have saved my project and restarted it thinking that maybe there is a storage/memory issue causing the problem, but that hasn't had an effect.
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I don't believe the motion paths support partial travel. They go from beginning to end at the prescribed rate with applied easing. You options, once drawn, are to resize the whole path, or change direction. Of course, you can always redraw the path.
If you want to adjust the stopping point, you would need to draw multiple contiguous path segments and play the animations in sequence to your desired end.
If you wanted to get crazy, you could do what you want by slightly modifying this solution.
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That might be a bit much for what you want to achieve however.
Thanks for the reply Nathan. If I'm correctly understanding your points, that isn't quite the problem I'm trying to solve. I'm good that the object travels the whole path and I'm not trying to change a path in the middle, but rather only the final end-point. And you are right that your solution was a bit more than I wanted to jump into for this situation.
An article came out in 2024 about modifying the end point of a motion path (https://www.articulatesupport.com/article/storyline-360-fine-tune-motion-paths). At the end of the text was a table that seemed to indicate that the X, Y Coordinates of scribbles could be modified. The table also indicates I cannot change "Length", but that wasn't my interpretation of what I was trying to accomplish; maybe in hindsight, that is their definition.
I think that changing the path shape by repositioning the endpoint is limited to lines, curves and arcs. Other more complex shapes like freeform and scribble still seem to be limited to resizing the whole set path.
