Play with the states and animations of a functional group

To save time, you can make all the elements in a functional group appear or disappear.

Likewise, you can animate all elements of a functional group at the same time, or stop animation simultaneously.

This could be useful, for example, for :

• Highlight responses to a risk hunt,
• Highlight important clues or information, and
• Revealing the elements of an exercise after the instruction has been given.

⚡ Caution : the elements making up the functional group must have visible basic states. It is the implications that will make the elements of a group visible or invisible, not their individual states.

If you wish the group's starting state to be invisible, you must :

• make all its elements individually visible, and
• create an implication that at the start of the scene, the group's state will be invisible.

Similarly, if you want to animate a functional group, the animations of each element making up the group don't matter - it's the group's animations that count !

Illustration:

Here's an example of an experiment using this feature: at the start of the experiment, the functional group comprising the risk images and descriptive texts is invisible. For this, the state of each element is "visible", but an implication makes the group invisible.

• When I click on the button, the functional group becomes visible.
• When I click again, it becomes invisible.
• When I click on the text, a predefined animation (pulser) is launched on the functional group.

1. Creating a functional group

To do this, you need to create the elements that will make up the group. These elements must be visible.

They may be images, texts or 3D objects.

Then go to one of the elements, click on the 3 dots to the right of it. 

And select "Create a group".

Now all you have to do is drag and drop the elements of your choice into the functional group.

2. Create implications

A. Acting on the functional group status

First of all, make sure that all the elements in the functional group are individually visible.

You can then act on the group: you want the group state to be invisible at the start of the scene:

For the rest of the implications, simply create consequences linked to the functional group's state.

B. Acting on functional group animations

First, define an animation for the functional group:

This is a default animation, so it's necessary to set it to STOP at the start of the experiment, as it launches automatically. This would not have been necessary for an advanced animation.

If you want the functional group animation to be set to "stop" at the start of the experiment, here's the consequence to be added to the "scene entry" trigger:

For the rest of the implications, we'll have to create consequences concerning the animation of the functional group:

It's your turn to play !