Pause Timeline When Entrance Animation Completes (Not Working)

Hi Ray,

I'm not sure why the trigger doesn't work because it logically sounds and looks correct when I viewed your project. I experimented with different type of trigger and set it up so that it pauses the timeline when it reaches 0.75 seconds instead of depending on whether Car_02 entrance animation completed and it works. 

This is how the trigger looks like.

Hi,

It won't work as you expected because your trigger will Pause Timeline when the animation completes and to think that you have 2 animations --the Fly In and Fly Out. Actually, it pauses after Fly Out animation.

Hey there, Ray!  The Car_02 pic has a duration of 1.5 seconds.  At the .75 second mark, the entrance animation completes, but the exit animation has simultaneously begun.  You can either extend the duration of the image by .25 seconds, or shorten the exit animation duration to .50 seconds so the two animations don't happen back to back.

I hope that helps!

Hi Crystal,

You solution does seem to work: when I extend the duration of the car images on the timeline by 0.25 seconds, the pause takes effect as expected.

But the explanation for why it doesn't work with the entrance and exit animations back-to-back doesn't make sense to me. When I use the "when animation completes" trigger, it asks me which of the animations associated with the object is the animation it should track. In other words, it's only looking at the entrance animation; the exit animation should be irrelevant to the behavior of this trigger.

I suppose it could take a fraction of a second to execute the trigger, during which time the exit animation might begin. But it clearly takes less than or equal to 0.25 seconds (since adding 0.25 seconds allows the trigger to execute correctly), and the exit animation is 0.75 seconds long, so at worst, I would expect the timeline to pause when the exit animation is less than or equal to 0.25 seconds into its duration. But that's  not what happens. Instead, the pause never triggers at all. 

This seems like a bug to me. Does that make sense?

Thanks, Ray!  It does make sense.  If you add another object to the slide at just over 1 second in, you can see it appear because the timeline doesn't pause.  It seems as though because the animation is continuous, from entrance to exit, that the trigger can't fire.  I understand that it isn't logical since we're specifying the entrance animation.  Our team is looking into it, though, and I'll let you know if there are any changes!