Actions Control Animation

The Control Animation action lets you play, pause, rewind, or jump to a particular frame or time of an animation. It works on Frame Animations, Flipbooks, and Animations.

Target object

The animation object to control.

Animation command

The command to send to the Target object. Options are:

  • Set Frame - Jump the animation to a specific frame. This option only applies to Frame Animations.
  • Pause - Pause playback of the animation and hold on the current frame.
  • Play - Resume playback of the animation from the current frame.
  • Rewind - Start the current animation over.
  • Set Time - Set the time (in seconds) since the start of the animation. Does not apply to Flipbooks.

Frame

If using the Set Frame command, this field specifies the frame to jump to. The animation does not have to be playing for the frame to be selected.

Time

When used with Set Time, indicates the time (in seconds) that the animation should jump to. Time at the beginning of the animation is 0.