VRML - Non-looping animation

Author

Non-looping animation

ashwinmag

2004-07-20, 10:51 pm

Hi,

For animation using TimeSensor,
the animation works only when the loop is set to TRUE.

DEF Clock1 TimeSensor {
cycleInterval 3
startTime 0
stopTime 5
loop TRUE
}

Why does it not work when the loop is set to FALSE.

Joerg Scheurich aka MUFTI

2004-07-20, 10:51 pm

> For animation using TimeSensor,
> the animation works only when the loop is set to TRUE.

> Why does it not work when the loop is set to FALSE.

You need to start the using set_startTime, like here via a TouchSensor
when you click to the cone.
It is also possible to let a timesensor start at a specific time (via the
utc seconds since "the epoch") but using something like

DEF TimeSensor1 TimeSensor
{
cycleInterval 3
startTime 1.089107999e9
}

is rather impractical

for details see

http://www.web3d.org/x3d/specificat...html#TimeSensor

#VRML V2.0 utf8

DEF Transform1 Transform
{
children
[
Shape
{
appearance Appearance
{
material Material
{
}
}
geometry Cone
{
}
}
DEF TouchSensor1 TouchSensor
{
}
]
}

DEF TimeSensor1 TimeSensor
{
cycleInterval 3
}

ROUTE TouchSensor1.touchTime TO TimeSensor1.set_startTime

DEF PositionInterpolator1 PositionInterpolator
{
key
[
0
1
]
keyValue
[
0 0 0
0 2 0
]
}

ROUTE TimeSensor1.fraction_changed TO PositionInterpolator1.set_fraction
ROUTE PositionInterpolator1.value_changed TO Transform1.set_translation