Comments on: TimelineMax – Sequence/Group Multiple Tweens, Control Them as a Whole

By: Anto

Anto — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:50:32 +0000

So many possibilities ! It’s super, you’re genius ! Thanks

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:54:06 +0000

Anto, it depends on what kind of “pause” you want. If you just mean that you want there to be a gap in time between your tweens (like tween1 runs…then waits 5 seconds…then tween2 runs), then it’s as simple as using the “offset” parameter of the append() method (or use a “delay” in your tween2 – either way works). Like myTimeline.append(tween2, 5);

If, however, you truly want to pause() the timeline after a certain tween, you can use an onComplete in that tween to call a function that calls the timeline’s pause() method. Should be pretty straightforward. Or you could addCallback() on the timeline itself to do the same sort of thing.

myTimeline.addCallback(myFunction, 5);
function myFunction():void {
myTimeline.pause();
//do other stuff…
}

As usual, there are lots of options

By: Anto

Anto — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:21:35 +0000

Hi! I just found this library which seems very cool but quickly a question haunted me : how to say I want a pause between each TweenMax’s step of the TimeLineMax:
timeline.append(step1); timeline.append(step2); etc… ?
By the way, great job !

By: Somnath Dey

Somnath Dey — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:34:29 +0000

Fantastic,a great product for AS 3.0 so, many things can be

developed out of this

By: admin

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:20:25 +0000

Karim, the great thing about ActionScript-driven animation (at least the way the GreenSock system works) is that it is very dynamic and has no fixed “resolution” meaning that there isn’t a precalculated set of frames/values. The resolution is unlimited. You can render a tween or timeline at ANY time value (1 second in, 1.1, 1.00005, etc.) and it will figure out the precise values. That makes it silky smooth if, for example, you play the tween in slow motion (lower its timeScale). Traditional MovieClip timeline tweens that are built in the Flash IDE, however, have a fixed resolution which can start to look very choppy if you slow them down. Their duration will completely change if you alter the frame rate of your swf too. The GreenSock system, however, will adjust on the fly (although you can set useFrames:true and it will ensure that animations base their timing on frames instead of seconds if you prefer).

So to answer your question, no, there is not an array tucked away inside each tween with precalculated values. That’s a good thing

By: Karim

Karim — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:56:33 +0000

Hi, great work, very helpful thanks a lot !
Just one or two questions, does the reverse calculate again the position at each frame, or does it use a cached array of positions of the ‘normal’ tween and read it from the end to the beginning?

And is it possible to get this array (if it exists) and reuse it somewhere else without recalculate all the positions, scales, rotations etc ? Or do I need to create it by myself with the “onUpdate” parameter or something like this?
I hope my question is clear. Thanks

By: SavageLook

SavageLook — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:22:50 +0000

Got my site up and running: http://www.savagelook.com

Thanks again for TweenMax/TimelineMax, they helped a ton!

By: SavageLook

SavageLook — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:46:00 +0000

Just wanted to thank you guys for a great package. Transitioning between scenes in my away3d project just became a lot easier and logical thanks to the addCallback() and reverse() functions.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:01:11 +0000

Sure, Tony, you can tween the timeScale of a nested TimelineLite/Max.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:44:53 +0000

Is it possible to tween the timeScale of a single timeline within a master timeline?