How to make some things loop eternally, but not the whole animation

[miriammck]

Hello,

I'm working on an ad where we have some stuff spinning in the background and a button fly in. When the animation is "done" we want the button to remain static but for the background to continue to spin eternally. I know it's possible but I cannot figure out how to get selective looping.

Any guidance would be much appreciated!

I'm working in Animate CC 2018 and it's a HTML 5 doc

-Miriam

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

Sorry that nobody answered your question a month ago, hopefully you found a solution in the meantime.

In case not, and for anyone who finds this post, the easy solution is to use MovieClips for the elements that need to loop forever. Things that are directly on the main timeline, or that are Graphics, will stop animating when you reach the 'this.stop();' at the end of the animation, but MovieClips will continue to animate.