External triggers

Timeline makes multiple storables available for triggering animations from buttons, collisions or animation patterns. This allows you to do more advanced things such as starting animations with a UI button, changing the speed of an animation using the float param randomizer, make someone react when touched, etc.

The most important ones you need to be aware of are:

• Play [ANIMATION NAME]: Blends the specific animation in. This is the same as the Play button in the animations screen.
• Speed [ANIMATION NAME]: Changes the speed of a specific animation. This is the same as the Speed (local) slider in the edit screen.
• Weight [ANIMATION NAME]: Changes how much will the animation affect the targets. This is the same as the Weight slider in the edit screen.

You can also use these:

• Next Animation (Main Layer) and Previous Animation (Main Layer) to navigate animations.
• Locked prevents any keyframes from being created. This can be useful when other plugins interfere with Timeline.
• Play will play whatever animation is currently selected, as well as the default animation of all other layers.
• Speed controls the speed of all animations at once (global). It is cumulative with the per-animation speed (local).
• StopAndReset will reset all animations to their initial state.