I’m new around here but have had Hype on the mac since it came out - I just had the opportunity to use it properly.
But now I do!
Currently we use a custom jQuery system to power our ‘product builder’ such as the one you can find on this page. It’s pretty simple in concept in that you click a button and you can change colours and the like (jQuery swaps out images stacked via css etc). We need to rebuild these and I realised Hype could be just the thing, as I want to loose the rather complex jQuery based system currently used due to the complexity of maintaining it.
So the question… Playing around I can see how it could possibly work but I can not find how the best way to put this together might be. In the old flash days etc. I would have a button on the main timeline trigger something like a goto and stop event that would ‘hop’ between images on another time line creating the swap. For the life of me I can not see how to do this in Hype.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated so I can sit down and really nut this one out.
Hey Daniel, no problems will be happy to. I’ve build up a dummy already and it’s doing exactly what I want - and possibly more! Surprisingly not hard to do, just requires one to set up timelines and groups and then keep track of them. When I’ve finished the first one I’ll post a link together with how I did it.
It’s actually pretty easy but you have to plan it out.
Let’s say you have three images and a back and forth button.
On your timeline place your three images. Space the images out, say at 5 second intervals and have each only visible for three seconds. Make sure that the middle of each sits on the ‘5’ second interval (so at ‘5’ seconds the image is visible for 4,5,6) and no images overlap, so that when you scrub the timer each image appears and then vanishes as the timer passes.
After you have done this, place three instances of each button and match the visibility of each set to that of the images, so that when an image appears, so does the set of back and forth buttons.
To make it all work, assign a ‘go to’ function for each button that commands the animation to jump to the next image. So for example, on image two (which is at 10 seconds), the forward button tells the animation to go to 15 seconds and the back button to jump back to 5 seconds.
This is a really basic way to get started. The system I have built up uses multiple timelines and lots of different images and select buttons. It took a while to set it up and make sure everything corresponds but once done, it works a template to create consecutive sliders for (i our case) different products.
I have to get back to this in the next week and we need to start rolling these out on our website, so when I do, I’ll come back and tell more about how they were built up.
If in the meantime you have any questions, just let ask away and I hope I can help out.
Hey Mark. That’s the ideal but there are four separate systems at play here. The first is the Hype doc. Then we have the Woo extension that allows for the colour chits in the menu selection, then we have Woo-Commerce itself which is wrapped in Wordpress!!
We’ve always liked to have it the way you described but the logistics of making sure all the ‘bits’ play nice together all the time and after every update, is really more effort than it’s worth. People seem cool with the extra step and it does allow for customers to recheck things as they go - incorrect selections can be a big let down when the kit finally arrives, so the redundancy has become a form of inbuilt fail safe.
We recently updated this system with a secondary layer - splitting colour groups into different scenes and adding a bit of basic soft animation. You can see an example here