Pause timeline on base layer based on button on layer "x"?

Mar 05, 2018

Hi everyone,

I have come across an issue with slides that have a separate "navigation" layer. I have a hotspot on the base layer showing the navigation layer when hovering over. The navigation layer includes a pause button. I want the timeline to keep running on the base layer when the navigation layer shows, but I want the user to have the option to pause the timeline when clicking on the pause button. When I try to add a trigger to pause timeline on base layer for the pause button on the navigation layer, I get stuck as there does not seem to be that option on a layer that is NOT the base layer. I can pause the timeline only on that said layer. I am aware of the function "pause timeline on base layer" in the layer properties, but I was expecting to have that option also for objects on a layer.

Cheers

Tim

3 Replies

James Bennett

6 years ago03/05/18 at 9:37 am (UTC)

Hi Tim,

Unfortunately there isn't a direct way of doing this with just one trigger. But you can work around this by using the pause button on the layer to adjust a true/false variable and then pause the base layer based on that variable changing.