Timing Hide/Show - Lock/Unlock Screen - w Visual Effects.

[Scott Rossi]

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lock screen for visual effect

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media UX/UI Design

> On Feb 5, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:
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> This animation business is all new and I’m missing some key knowledge base  here.
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> Can any clarify LC’ underlying algorithm for running something like this?
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> Goal: to have “narration” text show in a field, smoothly disappear, then a second narration text appear in the field without abruptly just replacing the text.
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> as “pseudo” code this would appear to be what I want… but in fact it does not work.
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> It’s as if the dissolve over time is superseded by the subsequent commands
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>  wait 1 second
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>   put the uNarrationText[1] of this card into fld "narrationPanel"
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>   show fld "narrationPanel"  with visual effect dissolve very fast
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>   wait 1 second
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>   lock screen
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>   put empty into fld "narrationPanel"
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>   unlock screen with visual effect dissolve slowly
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>   wait 30 ticks
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>   lock screen
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>   put the uNarrationText[2] of this card into fld "narrationPanel"
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>   unlock screen with visual effect dissolve slowly
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> 
> in particular, narrowing it down to this
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>   show fld "narrationPanel"  with visual effect dissolve very fast
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>   wait 1 second
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>   lock screen
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>   put empty into fld "narrationPanel"
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>   unlock screen with visual effect dissolve slowly
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> 
> # the effect I’m looking for is the first text should appear to dissolve, and the new text appear with dissolve
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> 
> Obviously I can do the whole field like this:
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>   wait 1 second
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>   put the uNarrationText[1] of this card into fld "narrationPanel"
> 
>   show fld "narrationPanel"  with visual effect dissolve very fast
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>   wait 1 second
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>    hide fld "narrationPanel"  with visual effect dissolve very fast
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>   put the uNarrationText[2] of this card into fld "narrationPanel"
> 
>    show fld "narrationPanel"  with visual effect dissolve very fast
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> but it woudl be cool just to have the text change out… Yes, I could create a mask object with the field inside, but I’m looking for a simpler 1 field only solution
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> 
> BR
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