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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Cutting material from a video
"I use MS MovieMaker. Really, really simple to cut a section, save, and place in SL."
  • over 5 years ago11/12/18 at 6:34 pm (UTC)
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"PowerPointLabs has a free add-on to PP that makes it really easy to do this sort of thing. Take a screen shot, put it in PP, draw a recta..."
  • over 5 years ago11/09/18 at 4:24 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Variables
"There is no inherent value to variables, so you will gain nothing by learning about them. On the other hand,when you come to the point in..."
  • over 5 years ago11/06/18 at 3:27 pm (UTC)
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"To piggyback on Wendy's answer, hiding all the layers is the only to see the base. I have created a layer with nothing on it, that hides ..."
  • over 5 years ago11/01/18 at 2:31 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Amazon S3
"I think all the files and folders need to be public, so the player can find and access them. That being said, I think there is a way to s..."
  • over 5 years ago10/17/18 at 3:13 am (UTC)
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"Publish them. Go to one of these links (depending on your version) to learn more about the how and where.  The information on publishing..."
  • over 5 years ago10/16/18 at 5:11 pm (UTC)
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"Cassie, Here is a sample that has 4 drag-enabled objects (rectangles), and three targets (small dark circles). If any two objects are dr..."
  • over 5 years ago10/16/18 at 4:53 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion JavaScript Character Limits
"Brian, Like Jackson said, your problem is not with Articulate, or your LMS, it is with your browser and how it handles "mailto". Nothing..."
  • over 5 years ago10/04/18 at 11:34 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Changing states on response buttonsx
"I don't have time right now to look at this, but there is one thing you can check.  It would behave exactly the way you describe if quest..."
  • over 5 years ago09/13/18 at 7:16 pm (UTC)
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"You have 2 basic options: 1. Have each electron come out of the battery and travel around the circuit. That allows you to create 1 and d..."
  • over 5 years ago09/07/18 at 11:44 pm (UTC)
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"It is maybe not a well-known, but newly known bug (See Ashley's first Reply) in SL that using "State of XXX is ..." in the "When" portion..."
  • over 5 years ago09/07/18 at 9:37 pm (UTC)
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"It may be that you have not modified that trigger to include all the layers in the conditions."
  • over 5 years ago09/07/18 at 4:35 am (UTC)
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"The attached samples may give you some ideas.  "
  • over 5 years ago09/07/18 at 4:24 am (UTC)
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"It looks good. All you need is some way to keep track of when all the layers have been viewed.  This trigger won't work, because if the b..."
  • over 5 years ago09/05/18 at 2:40 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Not as complex as yours, but here's a sample that does what you seem to be describing, https://community.articulate.com/discussions/arti..."
  • over 5 years ago08/28/18 at 12:21 pm (UTC)
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"It is not the hover state that is the problem, but you are on the right track.  It is the z-axis (what's closest to the viewer) that is c..."
  • over 5 years ago08/21/18 at 3:46 am (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Only show layer on first visit/once
"Create a trigger on the directions layer so that when you click that you are done and are ready to leave it, the "DirectionsVisited" vari..."
  • almost 6 years ago08/17/18 at 4:23 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Check Boxes
"Copying and pasting both check boxes and radio boxes used to crash SL2. I got out of the habit of doing it, so I can't say if they have f..."
  • almost 6 years ago08/15/18 at 2:45 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Printing the Glossary?
"Janet, Articulate does not respond to ideas on the basis of how good they are, they respond to ones that a lot of users want. So everybo..."
  • almost 6 years ago08/14/18 at 7:16 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Timing the triggers
"Make object visible when audio completes. Jump when object is clicked."
  • almost 6 years ago08/10/18 at 7:59 pm (UTC)
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"If the layer visibility is locked, objects on that layer will always show:    "
  • almost 6 years ago08/09/18 at 9:11 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Animation Question
"It's very easy to do in PowerPoint, and then export as a video to use in SL. I would do the shrinking in PPt, then do the movement in SL,..."
  • almost 6 years ago08/07/18 at 6:37 pm (UTC)
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"I'd have to see the slide in question before I could agree with that."
  • almost 6 years ago08/07/18 at 4:44 pm (UTC)
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"Lauren,   It is maybe not a well-known, but newly known bug (See Ashley's first Reply) in SL that using "State of XXX is ..." in the "W..."
  • almost 6 years ago08/04/18 at 5:50 pm (UTC)
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"If you've reinstalled SL and still see the same results, upload the slide here, and let someone take a look at it."
  • almost 6 years ago08/03/18 at 3:26 am (UTC)