Interactive Markers in E-Learning #484: Challenge | Recap
Storyline’s built-in markers make it super easy to design professional-looking labeled graphics. Just drop a marker onto an image, pop...
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I saw this challenge and recalled a project I did some time ago for worker safety within a dusty environment. I modified the markers a bit more and actually used a trick that I learned about making an object into a marker. The pulsing action simply is the default marker behavior in Storyline.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/32841ff3-7ae5-45ad-b855-80d7d98ee3b6/review
Cool! So how does that trick work?
Credits to Ron Price (I sat in a couple of webinars he led and this was something he demonstrated) ... When you insert a marker, it has a set of default features (size/shape/color etc.). So you find whatever image or icon you want to make into a marker (in the example here, I searched for "lungs" in the icon library; I inserted it into the slide, then cut it so it was available on the clipboard.) Then open the default state of the marker and then change the fill and color of the marker to "no fill" (so it's essentially transparent), and paste in the image or icon. That basically turns the icon into a marker. Once the icon is the marker's default state, it's a simple process of changing colors to create a "visited" state.
Here's the source file - good luck!
Oh right! I know that trick with pasting another image into a state, but I didn't think that far with the "no fill". So simple. So genius!
Thank you!
