The case of the disappearing pulsation...

[Gary]

Alright, this one's really got me scratching my head.  The codepen has a simple timeline that spins some text in, pulsates the text in and out a few times, and then fades the text out.  The pulsation works over and over again if you restart before the pulsation ends.  However, if you let it continue on to the fade out tween and then restart, the pulsation no longer works.

 

See the Pen dLKsn?editors=001 by GaryC (@GaryC) on CodePen

[jamiejefferson]

There's an overlap of the repeating tween and the following tween causing the pulsation to be overwritten.

You've used repeat: 4, which means it will play once, then repeat 4 more times. The duration of that tween is 1.5s. The following tween has an insertion point of 0 and a delay of 4.2 (it would really be clearer if you removed the delay, and just inserted at 4.2). These tweens overlap and on the first play it works ok, since immediateRender is false, but once that overlapping tween plays for the first time the overwrite rules will kill the scalex/scaleY of any conflicting tweens - hence the repeating tween never run again.

You can change the repeat to 3, which will give you the number of repeats it seems you want (i.e. 4 total plays - 2 forward, 2 in reverse) and avoids the overwrite issue. If you need to overlap tweens like this though, you can always change the overwrite values mentioned in the docs

[Gary]

Thanks, Jamie.  I changed the default overwrite to none and that fixed it.  It looks like that changes it to a last-one-wins scenario, which was my original expectation.

 

Thanks for the help!