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Animation in Storyline through the Morph Transition
Some time ago, PowerPoint came out with a transition called Morph that literally morphs shapes, colors, strokes, graphics, etc. from one slide to the next. In other words, if you build a design on one slide, duplicate the slide, and make changes to the shapes on the second slide, the Morph transition will smoothly deform the shapes from the first slide to the next.
This transition is POWERFUL for animation. I feel that small animations of this kind are especially important for a product like Storyline. In a sense, the ability to build animations is one of the key features that I feel is missing from Storyline. If Articulate would consider adding the Morph transition to Storyline, it would allow users to animate the graphics on the screen with triggers, and I believe that would open up new worlds of possibility with Storyline.
Is this something you all would consider adding to Storyline?
11 pages of comments requesting this feature should say something about the need. I have been using Articulate since it was first on the market and I love it. The only thing that really frustrates me is that the animations dont have easing and having a morph feature would be a game changer. Even Canva has a morph feature now called magic move. The animation features in social media apps are far surpassing Articulate’s animation capabilities. Its getting hard to explain to clients why the animations in Storyline projects look primitive in comparison. Please up your game with better animation features.
Please Please add morph capabilities to StoryLine!!!
Just want to say I would love to see this function in Storyline. It would truly change the game for me and a lot of IDs I am sure. Currently, I do my morphing in Powerpoint and export as a video to insert in Storyline, which takes more time. Great suggestion Cameron!
Respectfully, I'd submit that you're not reaching a representative sample of your core users. Typically, the most vocal and/or the most aggravated are the people who take time to log on, find a board, locate a request link, etc., and then take time to post. That's a small percentage. Requesting the morph transition is rather akin to requesting indoor plumbing. If the 2 star hostel down the street (Powerpoint) has it, but the 4 star luxury chain (Articulate) doesn't, most people will just work around it until they find a way to pack up and move on. They are spending time finding out what software that amazing design they love was created in, and after enough of the same answer, they jump ship. Consider this board a canary in the coal mine rather than an pesky outlier, please.
Hey, Cameron. Thanks for reaching out!
We're always looking at new features, so we appreciate you letting us know that having the Morph transition is important for your Storyline projects. I'm happy to share this discussion with our product team!
If we make changes to the currently supported PowerPoint animations and transitions in Storyline 360, I promise we'll keep this conversation updated. Thanks for letting us know how we can make things better, Cameron! 🌟
That sounds wonderful! Thank you so much for your reply!
I would like to second this.
Hello, do you know if this has been added in Storyline? Also, do you know of a feature in SL that will mimic Morph it doesn't currently have it?
Yes, this would be great! Am new to Storyline and this is one of the first transitions I tried to do. Looking forward to this being added :-)
Totally agree, Morph has been around for quite a while 2016, I have asked about it before because of the labor intensive workaround required in Storyline to even come close to this type of effect. I have been really discouraged by the lack of progress in Storyline lately. I feel they are masking the lack of development by providing template and asset libraries. Instead I wish they would focus on feature requests. For example, universally change the caption style for the entire project (just like you can replace fonts). This has been around in Captivate (global preferences) for eternity. It is why my team struggles to use it for software simulations.
I agree Debra!!! Templates aren't very helpful to me as I have to keep to a stricter brand look... morph would be great as it was one of the most powerful tools for a great look & feel in ppt.
If not with Storyline.. at least with Studio 360. iSpring has the ability to use morph in what is their version of Studio/Presenter. Phase 1 could be to support morph via Studio 360 and Phase 2 could be to support morph in Storyline.
I am using a workaround until this gets developed. I create the slides in PPt and export them as a movie file and use that in the background. Please prioritize this feature.
Yes, I do the same...but it's definitely not sustainable. This was something that Captivate was able to do in the early 2000's. I know that it may be a "More advanced" feature for the average Storyline user, but I feel that there are SO many benefits to having this feature and many would use it more often
I've been using Storyline for just two weeks. and I can already see how Morphing would be a great help to me having done a lot of it in ppt.
I think if anyone is a serious ppt user and has improved their presentations with morphs they couldn't fail to see how useful it would be here.
We have been waiting on this for years. In the meantime, I create the morph slides in PowerPoint with transition timing and then export it to a video. I then insert the video in Storyline and trigger it to play as needed. I found that much easier than motion paths and state changes.
