Actor Animation Visibility on/off
RP
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I've been digging through the forums (search is still useless), and the web for cached articles, but no findy.
I have a scene that is dedicated to the intro story. It features a series of animations running timers matched to a VO/soundtrack.
The only issue I am having is I need some of the static animations (they do not move from their position) to appear when needed and disappear on time. I tried various methods via the attribute field such as alpha 0, or visibility off and setting a rule to make them visible again via the timer. no worky.
I may have answered this myself as I was tinkering just now, I did not enter edit the prototype. I'm thinking my answer is I need to create an attribute for this. Am I on the right track?
I'll keep jacking with this maybe one of you hotdogs will beat me to it.
On another note, I have resized these animated sprites to be iphone friendly, but the scene takes about 2 to 3 seconds to load via GS, I have not tested it out on the viewer yet. I'm hoping that after setting up these timers and visible only when needed, it will speed up that load time.
I have a scene that is dedicated to the intro story. It features a series of animations running timers matched to a VO/soundtrack.
The only issue I am having is I need some of the static animations (they do not move from their position) to appear when needed and disappear on time. I tried various methods via the attribute field such as alpha 0, or visibility off and setting a rule to make them visible again via the timer. no worky.
I may have answered this myself as I was tinkering just now, I did not enter edit the prototype. I'm thinking my answer is I need to create an attribute for this. Am I on the right track?
I'll keep jacking with this maybe one of you hotdogs will beat me to it.
On another note, I have resized these animated sprites to be iphone friendly, but the scene takes about 2 to 3 seconds to load via GS, I have not tested it out on the viewer yet. I'm hoping that after setting up these timers and visible only when needed, it will speed up that load time.
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If anyone has a suggestion about the load time, please let me know.
*edit* Oh boy, yes that interpolate is amazing. Now that I remember what Gyroscope and Tynan had told me about it before, I think I got this all under control. The ability to smoothly scale with this behavior will save my butt on app size issue.