Crunch

Well no rush guys… easy issue to just avoid.

My focus has mainly been on making sweet animations instead of stopping them so I haven’t ever done much with the stop param puzzle until yesterday. So much fun!

I already created a play bar timeline with a playhead that moves along with animation that I can also grab to stop animation, and scrub it forward to advance it. Haven’t figured out getting it animate backwards yet?

Any pointers there would be appreciated!! Thanks!

Lol.. thanks Xeon, I probably should have added some more context to my post.. Getting the console log to work wasn’t the issue.. Long story short, I had very complex setup that involved iterating input into the parameter fields. I assumed the error I was getting surely had something to do with that and not with the console.log tool I was using to try and diagnose where the error was being tripped.

Took me all day to figure that out!.

As KDV pointed out, its probably more of a behavior of the feature (ie killing the whole process) as opposed to any type of technical “bug”…. So I just posted to make note of the behavior so nobody else out there wastes a day like I did trying to figure it out!
Cheers!

super helpful as always, thanks you KDV!

So correction.. In my first screenshot I wasn’t actually creating a proper list as I was using the group selector for boxes and spheres group. But.. as you guys pointed out, even if I brought in a proper list of objects, I can’t just quick reset it – rather, I need to remove items one by one.

Maybe a function that iterates thru and removes all items??
Then probably need to have the same type of iteration to add items back?

Before I got the feedback and did come up with a workaround, where I move all possible objects I want to be hoverable go new collection in blender. Then in the hover puzzle, items that go into the on over slot are then filtered against my list before the desired effect is applied.

The list in this method, can be easily cleared at once, and reconstructed into list with get all objects from group puzzles.

Any performance concerns between the two methods?

Thank you gentlemen for the time and input!!!

Ok I had a chance to go back and recreate the offending setup, that sticks the cursor to a puzzle with dropdown list selector.

I load a cvs list, then from that run a procedure that automatically creates annotations (by matching empty names setup in blender file) and then automatically adds in on click events.

If you open the html app file, everything seems to work. – clicking on annotation 3 the torus will move to 3, clicking on 5 it will then animate from annotation 3 to 5.

However, back in puzzles, clicking on the hide puzzle (that has object selection drop down) the cursor will stick to it.

To unfreeze, you need to first refresh puzzles screen. Then deactivate the Loader function (this function triggers the annotation setup routine) press SAVE, then refresh. Now cursor won’t stick to puzzles.

You than reactivate the Loader puzzle and save. Everything will be ok until you refresh puzzles page again.

I’ve managed to use the work around I just described to keep my main project going, but it would be nice to identify the root cause. Thanks & Happy Thanksgiving/BlackFriday!

full project files (breaker) attached in zip