parts of puppet disappear when adding cycle layers to element

I am guessing you have the following set up (based on screen capture).

- You have 3 layers in the cycle (arms at side, arms half way, arms crossed)

- You have the cycle reverse when the trigger is released

If this is correct, I suggest the following change:

- Create a group that holds the the first of the 3 layers and a cycle layers group

- The cycle layers group only has two layers now, (arms half way & arms crossed)

- Put a swapset on the top group where the "arms-at-side" is the default for the swapset

- Put the trigger on the cycle layers

The idea is hitting the trigger switches from the default arms-at-side image and starts playing the cycle layers for the non-arms-at-side images.

The other thing I wonder if possible is to use the cycle layers pasue capability somehow. You can mark a cycle layer as "stop on this layer". If the cycle repeated automatically you hit a trigger to let it play the next few frames. In this case I think you would put 4 in the squence: arms-at-side (with pause), arms-half-way, arms-crossed (with pause), arms-half-way. Each trigger would make the cycle keep going until the next pause layer. But this would not work with different sets of arms - the swap set you can add multiple different positions (arms up in air etc) with the arms-at side being the default pose you return to.