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Using custom characters for Scenarios in Rise
I've been playing around with the new scenarios lesson in Rise. They are awesome for scenario based learning with dynamic feedback. However the characters currently offered are kind of limited, specifically for my industry.
I really wanted to use custom characters in my company's uniforms. It may not be officially supported by Articulate, but swapping the stock characters for custom characters is actually pretty easy. I made this quick video to show you how you can do it too.
Reach out if you have questions.
Great Job, we still would love to see the Rise team step up and offer the option of replacing the characters with custom or no characters at all. Also would be ideal to have the option of removing the background blur, sometimes you want the full background to be visible especially as you may be able to add other characters if the scenario image can be tinkered with.
This is amazing. Articulate - please offer the functionality to add our own characters so we do not require this work around.
Brilliant - thanks for taking the time to put this together. We just need to remember that every time we re-export the course, all our lovely work will get overwritten ... so make sure you do this on a "final" version ... and save your images to a backup, just in case "final" isn't so "final" after all ;)
Karl, Thanks for your response! but I was wondering about replacing it the same way with the characters for a NON Blurry image.
You can do that by adding some custom CSS to the exported course. Start by unzipping the exported course.
Find index.html (For SCORM it's in scormcontent, for XAPI it's in in the parent directory) and open it in a text editor. Then paste the following CSS right under the <style> tag.
.scenario-block__background{
filter: blur(0rem) !important;
}It should look something like the image below. This will remove the blur from ALL scenario blocks in your course, so you can just upload a background image of your choice.
Once you've done that, zip everything up again and you're good to go.
Wow- great work Mat and thank you for the extremely well-done how to video tutorial@
Really cool stuff. What happens if you have to republish the course? I'm guessing it reverts back to the original images. Is that true?
Yes, when you republish the course you will see the original stock character again.
This is a great tutorial. But this would have to be edited post-SCORM creation on your last version before going live. Is Articulate working on allowing you to import custom characters so we can make these edits with Rise?
Genius! :)
Hi, I was trying the same but in 'assets' folder from scormcontent, the Picture can only be opened, not able to export this to Adobe photoshop, guess this is restricted. I am using the Articulate trial version. Is it the reason not being able to do this or any other thing. Look forward to your help
Hi there, Khaled. Once you publish a course and have the output folders saved to your local machine, you should be able to work with those files like any other files saved to your desktop. The trial doesn't restrict your output.
