Look the attached example:
here is the expose sheet of what’s happening. In this case I’ve unchecked the Symmetrical option.
Link time=120f (5s)
Local time = 48f (2s)
Duration = 6f
The left number is the original and the one on the right is the looped one.
Look at frame 120 (the link time):
For original number:
From frame 120 to frame 125 (link time to link time + duration-1f) the sequence is: 2, 4, 5, 19, 1, 7: total number of frames = 6 = duration length.
From frame 114 to frame 119 (link time - duration to link time -1 f) the sequence is: 3, 15, 14, 11, 7, 16: total number of frames = 6 = duration length.
Now look at frame 48 (the local time):
For looped number:
The first sequence is repeated from frame 48 (local time) to end of times.
The second sequence is repeated backwards from frame 48 -1f to start of times.
If checked Symmetrical, then only the first sequence is repeated forward and backwards.
I hope this don’t hurts so much any brain
-G
[code]frame 36: 4 , 3
frame 37: 19, 15
frame 38: 8 , 14
frame 39: 10, 11
frame 40: 2 , 7
frame 41: 16, 16
frame 42: 4 , 3
frame 43: 4 , 15
frame 44: 8 , 14
frame 45: 8 , 11
frame 46: 1 , 7
frame 47: 14, 16
frame 48: 8 , 2
frame 49: 10, 4
frame 50: 15, 5
frame 51: 14, 19
frame 52: 16, 1
frame 53: 3 , 7
frame 54: 14, 2
frame 55: 8 , 4
frame 56: 11, 5
frame 57: 13, 19
frame 58: 19, 1
frame 59: 5 , 7
frame 60: 11, 2
frame 61: 6 , 4
frame 62: 16, 5
frame 63: 14, 19
…
frame 113: 18, 7
frame 114: 3 , 2
frame 115: 15, 4
frame 116: 14, 5
frame 117: 11, 19
frame 118: 7 , 1
frame 119: 16, 7
frame 120: 2 , 2
frame 121: 4 , 4
frame 122: 5 , 5
frame 123: 19, 19
frame 124: 1 , 1
frame 125: 7 , 7
frame 126: 16, 2
frame 127: 2 , 4[/code]
time-loop-example2.sifz (1.04 KB)