Problem with rewind

[latariaParticipant]

Hi there!
At first sorry for my English.
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In our project we use some plugins that turn on animations in “parallel thread”, for example “Color blink” for an object.
I want to rewind back and forth to the particular chapters in my Slate cutscene. But if my color blink effect started it don’t stop until it finish even if I rewind cutscene to the before “color blink states”. And this situation touches all animations that execute through some time.
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How can I properly stop and revert all changes that animations make in particular cutscene?
I want to implement “Chapters menu” that allow users to go to the particular place in a cutscene.

[GavalakisKeymaster]

Hello!
No problem. Your English is fine. 🙂
Can you please explain a bit more, how is the code responsible for the animation that you want to revert (Color Blink) is being called from within Slate? Have you made a custom action clip to do that, or by some other means?

Let me know.
Thanks.

[latariaParticipant]

Yes, you’re right. I use custom action clip to do that.
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My component inherits from ActorActionClip.

for example I want 6 sec blink animation:
1. I use OnEnter() method in my class where I just animate color through an animation engine with DOColor method.
2. I put my custom clip where I want in the cutscene and when its time OnEnter() executes on that custom clip.

When I jump to another section (when I’m on a clip OnEnter starts) it jumps, but that blinking blinks that 6 (real) seconds independent where I am in the time line.

[GavalakisKeymaster]

Hello again,
Well, using a tween engine is not a very good practice to do within a sequencer like Slate, because the tween will run completely independent (or like you said “on a different thread”) than the sequencer does, especially if it’s just a “fire and forget”. So, you will need to tell DOTween to kill the tween. Bellow is an example how you should do it.

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public class BlinkColor : ActorActionClip {   [SerializeField] private float _length = 1f; public Color color;   private Tween tween;   public override float length{ get {return _length;} set {_length = value;} }   protected override void OnEnter(){ tween = actor.DOColor(color, length); }   protected override void OnExit(){ tween.Kill(); } }

On the other hand, you can of course just use the included action clip “Animate Material Color” and keyframe the color over time exactly like you want 🙂

[attachment file=”AnimateColor.png”]

Let me know if these work for you.
Cheers.

[latariaParticipant]

Thank you very much!
Your advice to use internal Slate possibilities sound much better.
I will look into this. I’m sure that it will work.

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