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nikolausm82011740
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April 15, 2016
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Is it possible to make a "Indiana Jones flight map" style moving line?

  • April 15, 2016
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Hello,

I was wondering whether I could recreate a red moving line (on a map) that grows longer to show the progress people have made already.

You may remember the scene from Indiana Jones movies (and old BW films) where the plane flies over the map.

I just need a way to have a plane/dot/X move from A to B trailing a red line behind it. There is no need for a dotted line.

Is that possible?

If so, to have learners drag this object themselves along a defined motion path would be too much to ask for I guess...

Thanks a lot!

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Thanks.
    I thought about the moving "cover" idea too but wasn´t sure how to keep the background (map image) onscreen the entire time while just covering up the parts of the red line I don´t want to show yet.

    Because the red line would have to be on a plane/layer above the map, wouldn´t it. So by covering parts of it up I would also hide that part of the map.

    The learner will not return to that slide.


    I see, that is why I think the state approach is better but it will not be animated.

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    TinkerTrainer
    TinkerTrainer
    Known Participant
    April 15, 2016

    Cool idea!

      BDuckWorks
      BDuckWorks
      Inspiring
      April 15, 2016

      I was able to make a rough using zoom in effects and the mouse object with a custom cursor.

      Unfortunately, this is not very precise so making the path and landing locations exactly where they appear on the zoomed map will take some trial and error.

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        nikolausm82011740Author
        Inspiring
        April 16, 2016

        Sounds great but I am not sure how that works?
        Could you share more details?

        Thanks a lot!

        Lilybiri
        Lilybiri
        Legend
        April 16, 2016

        You can create the Video, that is not an issue. But how you have to turn that video into clips so that they can be used to have a progress indicator, that is a totally different problem. You can put a video in a state. Do you want the trial to move from the beginning on each slide, or proceed from where it was on the previous slide?

          Lilybiri
          Lilybiri
          Legend
          April 15, 2016

          If you are on CP9, you could use states: create as many states for the lines as you want to see different length. Be sure to have the map with that line object timed for the rest of the project, always on top. Use the On Enter event of each slide to change to the next state.

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          nikolausm82011740Author
          Inspiring
          April 15, 2016

          Thanks!

          I was thinking of states also.

          So to easily have an effect that trails a line from a to b is probably more of a Adobe Premiere topic...

          Lilybiri
          Lilybiri
          Legend
          April 15, 2016

          If you want it animated, use a HTML animation. It is not (yet) possible to apply an effect on a state. You could use a 'cover' that moves using a motion path as well. But it will be more work than with the states, because you'll have to configure the path on each slide. And what if the user comes back to a slide? With the states, and a conditional action On Enter that is easily to solve, but with effects?

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