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tiatridis
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January 27, 2022
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Image sequence trigger issue

  • January 27, 2022
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So I have a series of pngs I want to have load as a smoke effect. I imported the sequence and set parameters in the cycle layers behavior. I then set a trigger for image sequence by clicking the smoke layer and clicking the + in the trigger section, however the trigger text appears orange even with a unique keyboard entry assigned to it. When I click on the orange trigger text on the left panel of the interface it says 'no layers or replays assigned to this trigger'. The seqence does play immediately if dragged into the record interface but then does not play when you click record. Clearly I am setting the trigger in the wrong manner. I think. I doesn't appear possibel to select the length of the smoke sequnce in the timeline and set a replay. Also it it possible to reposition such a sequence on the screen? I don't see that the paramters for moving the sequence around like any other object at all. Thanks so much.

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alank99101739
alank99101739
Braniac
January 27, 2022

There are different types of triggers. The triggers panel I think only shows triggers that make a layer appear or disappear, and no layers have been dragged into the defined trigger for 'h' (so it is empty). Cycle layers can also be triggered by key strokes, and can listen to the same keystroke ('h' in this case). So if the cycle layers works okay, I suspect you can just delete the "Trigger" in the trigger panel. Otherwise, drag the layer with the cycle layers behavior and drop it on the trigger so it is bound to something (that way the layer will be hidden until you press 'h').

 

It is a bit confusing that the triggers panel is only for... for... umm... "make layer visible" triggers. (I don't even know if they have a name!)

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tiatridisAuthor
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January 27, 2022

Thanks for the reponse. How do you drag a layer onto a trigger? In record mode I can see the layer with the cycle that was imported both up top by where it says name and on the bottom where it says Timeline Scene, but neither can be clicked on and dragged onto where it says drop layers, replays, or audio here to create triggers. That looks like to me like oe it would work.

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tiatridisAuthor
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January 27, 2022

Ooops! I was doing it from memory and got it wrong. Cycle layers can fire when the layer is triggered. There needs to be a trigger bound to the layer.

 

I don't understand why that trigger is orange. There are no listed layers in it. I would delete that trigger and start again. Click on the trigger in the trigger panel and press the DEL/Backspace key and it should go away. Then in rigging hierarchy find the layer with the Cycle Layers behavior added, then click the "+" button just to the right of the "Cycle Layers" behavior lego block and select "Create Trigger" from the popup menu. That should create a new trigger in the triggers panel and bind it to the layer (you should see the path to the nested layer under the "Layers and Replays" heading.

 

Note: The drag and drop should have worked (I just tried and it was fine for met), but if the orange trigger is in some weird state, that might explain why it was playing up. (I.e. a bug.) Delete it and start again is my suggestion. Normally it goes orange if there is a layer it is bound to, and that layer goes away (e.g. due to the PSD hierarchy changing during editing).


Hmm, okay I see the plus sign all the way on the right on the rig panel. When I import the sequence it appears as its own layer in the record interface. Swicthing to Rig I see the three images in the cycle. Mind you I imported the sequence not the images indivdually. Clicking the + signs brings up an orange word trigger even before a keysroke is applied, meaning something's wrong obviously. It doesn't matter if the first imahe in the sequence is picked or not, same result wither way. This would be the normal procedure right? See attahced, maybe you will someting I'm missing. Oy.

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