Bubbles and Simulation Steps in Producer

[LA0]

Hi,

In producer, when editing a simulation, is it recommended to keep only one bubble per single step (mouse action or explanation ...etc) ? Because, after using text-to-speech, the bubbles flow tend to become kind of interrupted sometimes... Is this a common problem ? Thanks!

[DirkManuel · Accepted solution]

Personally I advocate having multiple Bubbles in a Step (and merging screens where feasible) because it makes playback smoother/faster (less content being fetched/loaded) and shorter documents.

However (and this is a big but...) if you are using audio, then you must have only one Bubble per Step. This is because audio is defined at the Step level not the Macro level, so what happens is all the audio gets played while the first macro (action or explanation) is displayed, and then progress only continues to the next macro once the audio has finished. That's just the way it is. If you don't like it, I have a Customer Influence Request to have audio at the Macro level that you can go vote up...