Gears Animation Issue

Hi Richard, firstly I love the gear idea!

I would like to help you but the file you gave me seems to work fine, all layers are opening as expected eg when you click on marker one it opens layer 1 every time and so on .I am notseeing where "all of the layers would just randomly pop up". Could you describe what you want to do in greater detail and I will atempt to help you.

Hi Julia,

Thank you for the prompt response. The layers wouldn't randomly pop-up at the first time.

Try clicking on the Gear 1, followed by 2 then 3. And repeating the clicks again then going the other way round or randomly clicking the any of gears/markers after that. I find that at some point, When you click on Gear 1, layer 3 will pop up instead of layer 1, or, Layer 2 or 1 will pop up instead of layer 3 when clicking on Gear 3 

Try giving it a few rounds and probably you'll see what's going on.

Thank you Julia!

Hi Richmond

I think it's timing - if you are clicking too quickly the layers don't have time to close before the next one responds and once that happens it's out of sync

Something that might work is to not repeat the gears on each layer but have them on the base and only have the other relevant objects on the layer.

 See if the attached works ok

Hi Wendy,

Thank a lot for the guidance. How do I achieve the same animations or similar effects by putting the gears on the base layer?

For example, when Gear/Marker 1 gets clicked on the base layer, the animation plays and at the same time showing Layer 1. It somehow look like a pulley effect. The gear changes directions and so does the layers.

Could that be done by putting all the gears in the base layer?

Also, how do you loop the timeline for the base layer?

Thank you Wendy.

Hi Richmond,

Is this what you are wanting to do? see attached

see pic for explanation, hope this helps

Hi Julia,

Beautiful! That's exactly what I was trying to achieve, flawless animation.

I understand now.

Thanks a lot, Julia! Appreciate it heaps!