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Hey guys, me again.

So I have made this scene that features players getting booked in a sport and so each player has a different animation that makes a yellow card become visible. If I want to remove this, I have also featured a 'reset' animation for each player, that triggers the original scene director in reverse (hope you're still with me).

The problem is, once I do this reset once, the next time I put the graphic in the reset doesn't work, it seems to get jammed. I tried sticking an event in to go back to frame 0, but this either doesn't work or gets me stuck in a loop. Does anybody know a way to reset an animation?

Hey James, are you taking the graphic offline between or is it staying online?
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It's staying online as this is all one giant scene currently
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Do you know how to script in XPression? If you do you can make a keyboard shortcut that would play the animation each time for 0 to duration end.
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I've done that in my script, but it still seems to be getting stuck when I link it through a GPI Trigger to my dashboard via a button. However, it works again if I open up the scene director and then press the button
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Would you be able to upload a small sample showing the problem you are having?
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James, I have a few scripts that I use that check the position of the scene director and if the position is over a certain value then the scene director is played backward. Could this be used to animate off the card? It would use the same button as the one that animates on. sort of like "anim on/anim off".
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Ooo yes please, that would be great
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dim scene as xpScene
dim fb as xpOutputFramebuffer
dim scenedir as xpSceneDirector
dim layer as integer

engine.GetOutputFramebuffer(0, fb)

for layer = 0 to 10
if fb.GetSceneOnLayer(layer, scene) then
if Scene.Name = "Your Scene name" then
if scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("your scene director", scenedir) then
if scenedir.position >= 150 then
scenedir.PlayRange(150, 0)
else
scenedir.PlayRange(0, 150)
end if
end if
end if
end if
next

give this a try. This looks at the position of the "play head" on the scene director. If it is greater than (in this case) 150 then it will play in reverse. This also works on any layer between 0 and 10. (you can change these number to expand the layers it would play on including negative numbers)
Get back to me if I have made a typo
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