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Switch Between Photos with Dialog
I don't know if I phrased the title properly. I have two images of people, an audio file, and animated dialog boxes to simulate a conversation. The images are on each side of the slide and the dialo...
The attached file has a simplified version of the slide. Here's what I did:
- I used only 1 picture-object for each person (Abby and Raymond). Each picture has 3 states.
- Normal. This state isn't used.
- FullColor. This has a copy of the full-color pic pasted into the state. That allows added entrance and exit animations to the state (for fading between states).
- Green. This has a copy of the green-monotone pic pasted into the state and given entrance and exit animations.
- This is set as the Initial State for both pics. IMHO, it's nicer to have them look the same when the slide loads, and then have them switch to full color when the corresponding dialog appears.
- NOTE: For more info about smooth transitions between states, see this post: TIP: Animate the change between character poses, photos, or other objects - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
- I moved the audio and dialog text-boxes to start at 1 second. I also changed the trigger that shows the Pause layer so that appears at 0.5 seconds. This allows the pictures to animated on before the layer stops the base timeline.
- I re-did the Cue Points so they appear in order at the points where the dialog changes.
- I added triggers that change the state of the Abby and Raymond pics as needed when the timeline reaches the Cue Points.
- By the way, I also edited the labels, so the text is entered directly into the rectangle. I adjusted the margins to indent the text.
