Play a percentage of a Timeline?

[flysi3000]

I might be just having a brain fart, but is there a simple way to tell a TimelineLite instance to play, and stop when it gets to x% of it's total duration?

 

Just for context, I have gauge that's an svg, and I'm using drawSVG to animate all of the elements of a specific class name to indicate how full the gauge is. So if it were, say 75% full, I'd only want the Timeline to animate to 75% of the total. In the attached codepen example, only only some of the rays on that icon would animate.

 

There might be a way better way to do this - I'm very open to suggestions!

 

See the Pen NqLLBx by flysi3000 (@flysi3000) on CodePen

[GreenSock]

Absolutely; there are several ways to do this....

 

1) If you're using TimelineMax, you can use its tweenTo() method:

 

tl.tweenTo( tl.duration() * 0.7 ); //tween to 70% progress

 

What's kinda cool is that you can even apply easing to that tween if you want, and/or add an onComplete or whatever - under the hood all it's doing is pausing the timeline and creating a tween of the timeline's "time" property, using a linear ease by default but you can easily customize it by adding a vars object:

 

tl.tweenTo( tl.duration() * 0.7, {ease:Power3.easeInOut, onComplete:yourFunction});

 

2) You could use addPause() to insert a pause() at that particular spot:

 

tl.addPause( tl.duration() * 0.7 );

 

There are actually a bunch of other ways you could accomplish this too, but I don't want to overwhelm you

 

Does this help?

[flysi3000]

Amazing. Thanks for the help! tl.addPause() did the trick - I forgot about that method.