Moving an object in Storyline.

Aug 16, 2013

Hey guys I just got a copy of articulate and I am loving it so far!  

I am working on  a simple project just trying to see what I can do and I've run in to a problem.  

I can't figure out how to move an object from one place to another.  I know this is possible in PowerPoint but I can't figure it out in Storyline.

Is there any way to move an object across the screen?  Like a ball bouncing across the screen?  

In a related question can you decrease or increase the size of an object over time? such as making the ball smaller as it bounces so it looks like it is getting further away?

any help on this would be wonderful!  Thank you guys.

4 Replies
Julia Koller

Hi Nathan,

To my knowledge the only animation tools are in the Animations tab. They're really more like transitions than animations, and I don't believe there's a tween or a scale option. I've been using Flash to do animations like that, and embedding it into Storyline.

Hopefully someone else will have some better input.

Michael Hinze

In addition to the simple animation options in Storyline's Animation tab and the option to develop in Flash as Julia mentioned, you can also use PowerPoint to animate objects, save that animations as a video and import that into Storyline. See the first slide of this little demo for examples of Storyline's basic, built-in animations, and the second slide for a crude (I'm not very artistic ) example of a PPT animation, imported into Storyline. I think for your needs, the PowerPoint (or Flash) option seems the best way to get that bouncing ball animation.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Nathan,

I wanted to echo Leslie's welcome, and also point you to this article that details how Storyline handles particular Powerpoint animations when you insert the Powerpoint files. Michael and Julia's suggestions for turning it into a video or creating it as a Flash are the best bet to keep the bouncing ball effect that you'd like to create. 

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