Does totalDuration() respect timeScale()?

[Robert Wildling]

I just wanted to test the eventCallback('onComplete') of a timeline, which - to my understanding - should fire once the timeline has completed to play. The Pen shows, that, no matter what the timeScale is nor where it is placed, totalDuration will always be 5 seconds.

 

Why is that? What would I have to do to make GSAP respect the timeScale?

 

 

See the Pen yqwyJQ?editors=1111 by rowild (@rowild) on CodePen

[Sahil]

You can use endTime method instead. In other cases you might want to calculate the time based on local and global timeScale.

 

https://greensock.com/docs/TweenLite/endTime()

[OSUblake]

timeScale doesn't change the duration. It scales the time like so...

 

tl.totalDuration() / tl.timeScale()

 

 

But that's just at one level. If a child timeline has a timeScale of 0.5 and its parent has a timeScale of 0.5, then it's timeScale would be 0.25

 

0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25

 

[Robert Wildling]

Thank you!