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Zoom regions placed at 0:00 of the timeline don't trigger
In previous versions of Storyline it was possible to place a zoom region at the beginning of the slide timeline so that a slide could begin "closeup" on an initial focal point and then be zoomed out to reveal the larger picture.
In 360 however, it seems that when a zoom region is placed at the start of a slide timeline it doesn't trigger. Only when the zoom region's timeline ends does Storyline very quickly zoom in just so that it can zoom out immediately again.
I can "work around" this by placing the zoom region at 0:00:10 of the time line and having the image I want to zoom in on follow it, but this looks quite awkward in comparison to how smoothly I was able to get this effect working in Storyline 2.
As an aside, when I set the zoom region property to "instantaneous" it doesn't seem to trigger at all, regardless of where it is on the timeline.
Has anyone else encountered and/or resolved this?
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Great news everyone!
We just released another update for Articulate 360, and included a few important fixes that you'll see in the release notes here.
The item you'll be interested in is:
Fixed: Zoom regions wouldn't work in HTML5 output when they were set to start at the beginning of slides, and they caused test-mode screen recordings with hotspots to fail.
Just launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button for Storyline 360. Details here.
Please let us know if you have any questions, either here or by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Also, be sure to check out Arlyn's video and visit our What’s New page!
Hi Leslie,
That's great work. Thanks to you and the rest of the team. I haven't published and tested on Moodle yet but all looks good so far. Much appreciated.
Great news Derek :) You know where to find us if you need further assistance ☺️
Hi Leslie,
Appreciate all the help. Unfortunately, while the instantaneous zoom function appears to work now from the beginning of each slide. The course, when published, has quite noticeable flashes between each slide instead. This is quite distracting and really destroys the flow of the course. I think that the zoom problem has not been completely fixed yet and that this new issue is related to it. I am wondering if anyone else on here is encountering a similar issue?
Just wanted to add that there are no problems when publishing in flash but that doesn't really help in our case.
Hi Derek - Sorry that you've run into an additional issue. I know you were working with Ryan on our support team, so I'm going to share your additional comments with him there to keep the conversation going.
I hadn't checked for about a month to see if the issues with the zoom function had been resolved (not able to hold a zoom position from slide to slide or have if move smoothly, holding the zoom as the screen view moved to another position on the page). I'm really, really, really happy to say I checked it yesterday and it seems to be working again! No more seasickness from zooming in and out! Thanks to all at Articulate who made sure this important feature was fixed so we can make use of it again.
Glad it works well for you now Carla :) Thanks for chiming in to share.
Is there a way to keep the same status of a zoom region from one slide to the next, so that it doesn't zoom out and in inbetween? Im using Storyline 3.
Hi Stefanie,
There is not, but you could create a new slide with the image cropped to appear at the same size/dimensions of your zoomed in version. That way it would look like the same zoom across multiple slides?
If you're looking for something else, perhaps you can share a bit more information on your setup and folks can offer any other ideas or workarounds.
I found a solution for having the same zoom region over several slides without zooming in and out:
The zoom element must have the same size and position on all slides and the duration must be over the whole length of the timeline.
