Set initial time in Actuate

#1

Hi,
I’d like to know if it is possible to set a starting time for a tween, i.e.: I want to move a rectangle from A to B in 2 seconds, but when I instance the rectangle and the tween I know the rectangle should have been instanced a few milliseconds before (between the current frame and the previous one), let’s say 0.2 seconds… so I should start the tween at 0.2 seconds instead of 0 to compensate the delay.
Is this possible?
Thanks

#2

Actuate.tween(…).delay(0.2).

Is it what you are looking for?

#3

No, I want to go into the tween by 0.2 seconds, not waiting to start it.

i.e.: I have a tween that takes 2 seconds to complete: I want to start it at 0.2 seconds, and see 1.8 seconds

#4

If i undestand well, you instanciate your rectangle at A’ not A for compensate the delay. You know it miss 0.2sec and the start point is not A but A’

Then you can directly set the duration of 1.8 instead of 2.

#5

But he needs to apply the changes in his MovieClip at time 0.2 (his MC may have rotated, moved…during this short time).

#6

exactly, tween should position the rectangle where it should be at 0.2

#7

You can’t make the move by 0.2 sec by yourself without the actuate ?
It’s more complicated than a linear move ?

#8

I have a variable tween, so I don’t know how the object will move

#9

What happens if you do Actuate.tween(...).delay(-0.2)?

#10

is that interactive animation ? (because of prevent lag of communication in thinking 0.2 sec into future [to detect gravity wav?] )

whats your haxe code-generation target GiG ?

#11

i let gpu glsl shader do time-sync:
https://github.com/maitag/peote-view/blob/master/Source/Example.hx#L136
( … time: …stamp…-startime )

#12

peote-view should be run into openfl to! (long year ago i tested with openglview class)

but it depends on what do you wanna VISUALIZE : ) = … and on what hardware (-> to “beam” it into reality without LAG )

#13

@player_03: really?! I should try that trick, it looks a bit… “funny” :slight_smile:

@maitag: HTML5. I should definitely try a gravity wave.

#14

Maybe you can create a customActuator that inherits from SimpleActuator, which allows to modify the startTime.
You can pass the customActuator in Actuate.tween(…,customActuator).

#15

That’s what delay() does.

(Note that timeOffset is what’s actually used as the start time. It should really be called “effectiveStartTime,” so that you don’t get confused.)