Summary

This chapter introduced some interesting, fun, and easy-to-use features of Storyline that help add a human touch to the courses that you create.

You learned how to add characters into your story and control their expressions, poses, and conversation through states and triggers, another powerful combination in Storyline. Once again, this level of complexity was achieved without complicated programming and without animation skills or design skills.

Einstein once said, "Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler." Creating a human touch is born out of well-constructed and refined content, and this is the content you should be working with in Storyline; just what is needed and no more. Simplification is the hardest part but without it, no matter how much sparkle and shine is added in Storyline, it will lead to uninspiring and ineffectual training.

Bringing out the human touch can be achieved through realistic conversation, situations and practice—just...