Animating timelines
Just like any other object that has properties, so can the timeline be animated. This is a very powerful concept the idea of animating a cluster of animations. In this lesson, we will see how to animate the timeline itself.
Video Transcript
00:00Have no fears because chapter 7 is drawing near to its end. There's two more topics
00:06I want to talk about one will be in this section and the next will be in a separate video. So let's get started
00:12So the next topic I want to talk about regarding timelines is the fact that you could actually animate a timeline
00:19So I want to show you how could you do that?
00:21So I'm gonna go ahead back to where we we just created two timelines and put them inside of a main timeline
00:27Next thing I'm gonna do is I want to actually go to that timeline and create a tween light to it
00:33And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna send that timeline TL main as the parameter instead of a visual object
00:40I'm gonna give it a 10 seconds because I'm gonna animate our animation
00:44Inside of an inside of an animation. How crazy is that? All right
00:49So next step is I'm gonna go and I'm gonna animate the property progress
00:53Which is one of the properties of the TL main and you should check any property that is actual numeric property
01:00You could actually animate. So in this case the progress goes from 0 to 1 so I'm gonna animate it from progress
01:06Oh, there's too many S's there
01:08progress
01:09So I'm gonna animate it from 0 where it's at in the beginning to 1
01:14Now if I just run it this way
01:16All we're gonna see is that our animation will take 10 seconds instead of taking whatever amount of time it originally would have taken
01:23But what I want to do next is
01:25Beyond that is I want to actually add some more eases to it
01:29So you can see that right now it has an ease because by default every tween has an ease and you can see how it's slowing
01:35Down as the animation gets nearer to its end
01:39But what I really want to do is I want to add here some sort of a funky
01:42Tween so to do that I'm gonna add an ease so to do that
01:45I will go up here and import that ease and once I let me tell Dumbledore Dumbledore in a minute
01:51My cat is trying to escape the room, but we're in the middle of a recording
01:55So we're gonna let him wait for a bit
01:56So I'm gonna I'm gonna go for a bounce just so you could see how cool this effect is
02:01And now once I've imported. Oh my god
02:05It's so confusing when your cat is tapping your foot asking you to leave the room, but we'll we'll brave on
02:11bounce
02:13ease out
02:14There you go. So all we almost almost in a second Dumbledore. That's the name of my cat
02:19All right, so we have your about ease out and I am going to publish this and look how crazy cool
02:26This animation is and all literally all we did was
02:30Take all of our animations and just animate them using the tween light
02:34So you can see how that bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy thing just happened there. I'll do it one more time
02:40Which I think it's crazy cool
02:43Absolutely crazy cool. So that's that's a really powerful feature that you could do with animations
02:47And that's it and I'm gonna let Dumbledore out because he's really wants to get out and in the following video
02:53we're gonna wrap up this whole topic of timeline light with a
02:57Going through a lot of functions really quickly, but stuff that will be really really easy. So it's gonna be a quick
03:02ease into chapter 8