Struggling connecting nested artboards/state machines

I don't know if it's helpful but, when I select the nested artboard and click the plus button in the animation drop down I can add the specific animation, key frame it, and then click the eye off, and drag the state machine animation beneath. Doing this will make everything appear to work correctly in the editor. But when I create a share link and try to look there or on Framer it works incorrectly as I originally described.

Hi, Is this what you expect to happen?

It's actually better since it didn't even occur to me to have it reverse back once you are not hovering over. How did I mess it up? Are you able to share back the archive so I can look at it? Separately, the ultimate idea is to have a click on the "SHOWREEL" button trigger an event which launches a link. I have the event in there with the URL (not sure if you saw that), but when I've used the Rive preview or exported it over to Framer, nothing was happening.

I've been an animator for a long time so those tools in Rive all feel very familiar and the ability to have more accessible, interactive content I think has huge potential....just been a bit tough getting the hang of things as some stuff that seems really simply to me doesn't work quite right once you start connecting nested artboards.

Yes, no problem. This is the file. I added an idle state, in addition to the hover state that I think was missing for the animations to work well. Another thing I did was add a hitbox for the listener, instead of using the button, so that the hover works correctly.

Thanks for sending that along. Unfortunately, when I open it looks unchanged from the original version I shared.