Negative delay on Timeline

[Joooonatan 0 Likes (Newbie)]

Hi,

 

Is it possible to have a negative delay on a timeline. 

 

var tl2 = new TimelineMax({delay:-10, repeat: -1});
    tl2.fromTo(".cloud-container-2", 5,{top:200, scale:1, opacity:0}, {top:200, scale:1, opacity:1, ease:Power0.easeNone})
    tl2.to(".cloud-container-2", 5, {top:300, scale:2, ease:Power0.easeNone})
    tl2.to(".cloud-container-2", 5, {top:400, scale:3, ease:Power0.easeNone})

 

This does not work. 

 

[Sahil 2,541 Likes (Superhero)]

What do you expect to happen?

[GreenSock 8,117 Likes (Superhero)]

Like @Sahil, I'm curious about what your goal is. If you want to jump to a certain place in the timeline, it's as simple as:

 

tl2.seek(10); 

 

Or you can do it any number of other ways, like tl2.time(2) or tl2.totalTime(2) or set the progress between 0-1 like tl2.progress(0.5) to jump to the halfway point, etc. 

[PointC 8,599 Likes (Superhero)]

Hi @Joooonatan

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

If you start a timeline with a negative delay, I'm pretty sure you'll rip a hole in the space-time continuum. 

 

Actually, I think you may be looking for the position parameter. If you add those nested timelines to a master timeline, you can start them at labels, hard-coded times or relative to their normal start time. It could be something as simple as this.

 

var tl1 = new TimelineMax();
var tl2 = new TimelineMax();
var master = new TimelineMax();
tl1.to(someElement, 20, {...});
tl2.to(anotherElement, 10, {...});
master.add(tl1);
master.add(tl2, 10);

 

That would start tl2 at the 10 second mark on the master timeline. That's just the basics of the powerful position parameter. Check out this post for more info and a better understanding.

https://greensock.com/position-parameter

 

You should also look at creating your timelines in functions and returning them for use on a master timeline. Here's @Carl's recent article to show you how it's done.

https://css-tricks.com/writing-smarter-animation-code/

 

Hopefully that helps. Happy tweening and welcome aboard

 

[Jonathan 5,176 Likes (Superhero)]

Hello @Joooonatan and Welcome to the GreenSock forum!

 

Here is a video tut of the position parameter that @PointC advised

 

 

Happy Tweening! :0