What's going on with my spinner???

I wanted to make a spinner where an arrow would spin and land randomly on a number.

All was going well until after a while the arrow kept landing on the same number! (See the picture for details).

Here's the PPTX file to download. Does anyone know why this is happening, and if can I fix it (without VBA please)?

ARROW SPINNER MYSTERY

I just downloaded and played around with it. That is strange.

So here's what I've discovered:
As soon as you click one of the buttons, the next time you click a button that has been click at least once will repeat the last action, regardless of the animation you wanted to trigger. I have no idea why it does that. For example, click on A, land on 5. click on B, land on 2. click on A again, land on 2.

Things I've tried:
I tried removing the "on clicks" to see if maybe that would change anything, nope.
I also added a button to go to the same slide as a way to reload the slide, that doesn't do anything either.
Going to another slide and then back to the first slide doesn't change this weird animation anomaly.
The only way it seems to fix itself is leaving slideshow mode and going back in.

Something to consider trying:
Have more than one rotation animation under each trigger. When I first opened your file, you had another 6 animations that weren't triggered. The last thing I did was add them to the triggers so that each button has 2 on click rotation animations. It still acts weird, but this time it will cycle between the two rotations. What you could do is have 3 rotation animations per trigger, and then do your thing where you make the 6 buttons "randomize" via animation like rolling your dice should make it look like the arrow is landing randomly on numbers. There still is a chance of it landing on repeat numbers in the same spot, but at least with the multiple animations per trigger, shouldn't look as obvious.

Thanks for trying! At least I know it wasn't me missing something simple!

I'll do some more experimenting.

Check out the resulting tutorial on this HERE.

It ended up with 6 spin animations per trigger.

Cheers!

As for the animation-issue:

A. Go to a slide with animation-glitches.
B. Hold down the CTRL and SHIFT keys as you press the letter d to duplicate the entire slide.
C. Go up one slide, back to the original glitch-slide.
D. Delete all the content on the original-glitch slide, but leave the duplicate alone.
E. On the freshly blank slide whose content you've just erased, go to the "Transitions" tab in the Ribbon menu at the top of PowerPoint's Edit mode.
F. Set the transition to None.
G. In the "Automatically After:" box, type 0.01.  Don't include the second period after the 1.
H. Set the slide background to black, or whatever colour you prefer to use to represent loading.
I. Do ensure that the transition-sound is set to "No Sound".
J. Repeat this for all glitch-slides.  You don't need to change the hyperlinks, as all your hyperlinks will remain in tact, now linking to your new "buffer-slides" that play before your now-correct animation-slides!

Yep! I only discovered the use of buffer / reset slides quite some time after I posed this question. It's probably an easier way to keep the random element of the spinner.

Have you tried this twenty-four--prong spinner which can lead to more spinners if you download it twice or save a copy of the original before modding it and adding the clone to the end of your main filled-out deck?


1. Open PowerPoint itself. 
2. Browse to and load this "New Reward Roller 2024 Map"-file.
3. Hover over the post-wheel black slides with your mouse, and follow the easy instructions in their title--tool-tips.
4. Once all your gameplay-data is pasted in, save, and then run your slide-show.  You, will be, amazed! 

Just remember: this engine uses Kiosk Mode, so you'll need hyperlinks back to the wheel, or otherwise, elsewhere in your game's data (for example, to a duplicate wheel-set past the end of your final pasted slides.  To add another wheel, just either re-download the base file, or duplicate it before making your changes.


Oh, and by the way, you can also fill in the representative images using the selection-pane, and then choosing a shape-fill for each wedge: it's lits that easy!