You may use several Scene Directors for creating your desired animations. They are played automatically by the player.

All animations are optional.

Revealing Initial Data

In most cases, ^In , ^Loop, ^Update, and ^Out are all you will need.

A series of animations are played to reveal the first record.

Order	Scene Director Tag	Description
1	^Reset	This Scene Director is never played, but is positioned to key 0 before the scene goes online, allows a spot to reset any properties that may have been altered by other animations. Very useful for scenes that support various states.
2	^ZoneIn	Used to animate the Zone on. Used if many scenes have the same Background. Unlike a Background/Bug scene, this Zone may have a specific tag (ie: ^Subtopic or ^City).
3	^In	The second Scene Director played (after ZoneIn). It is intended to reveal objects that will remain visible while the scene is online.
4	^LoopOn	The Time between the ^In and ^ContentIn
5	^ContentIn	This controller is used to display the first data entry, as well as any subsequent data reveals if the ^Update animation is not used. If no Content included in the ^In tag, this scene is used after the ^LoopON duration
6	^FirstLoop	The duration between ^In or ^ContentIN and ^PageTwo
7	^PageTwo	Alt page before repetition of content
8	^Loop	Duration of all your Scenes. Also used to reset from B state to A state

Revealing remaining pages

If there is more data to display, only animate the components that have more data using:

Order	Scene Director Tag	Description
1	^NextPage	Paging of your content if "word wrap" is enabled in your object. A ^morecontent tagged object will be visible if there are more data coming (paging)
2	^EndDataOn	Runs when the last paging is on.

Revealing the next record

There are three methods for showing the next record: the Update Method, Off/On Method, and the Scroll Method

Update Method

The update method is the recommended method for transitioning between data records. It requires there be a "Version B" copy of each object, and the ^Update animation will transition from showing "Version A" of the objects to showing "Version B".

e.g. ^Story will be visible initially, but by the end of the animation, ^StoryB is visible and ^Story is hidden.

The additional requirement with this implementation is that the ^Loop animation resets the keyframes for the A/B versions on the first keyframe. This will appear transparent to the viewer.

e.g. At t=0 ^Story will be made visible and ^StoryB will become hidden.

Order	Scene Director Tag	Description
1	^Update	Going from Story 1 to Story 2 of the same topic
2	^Loop	Duration of all your Scenes. Also used to reset from B state to A state

Off/On Method

This method only requires one copy of each object, but will cause a brief period where there is no content on air as it prepares the next record. The current content is animated off using the ^ContentOff animation, then the new data is applied before starting the ^ContentIn animation.

Order	Scene Director Tag	Description
1	^ContentOut	Animates the current Item OFF, but keeping the BG ON
2	^ContentIn	Animates the new item ON
3	^FirstLoop	The duration between ContentIN and PageTwo
4	^pageTwo	2nd part of the new item
5	^Loop	Duration between new item and next item

Scroll Method

If the scene is a Scene Group, no ^Loop animation is needed. Instead, content will be continuously appended to the scroll.

Removing the last record

Order	Scene Director Tag	Description
1	^ContentOut	Removes the Content and not the background
2	^LoopOFF	The duration between ContentOut and Out
3	^Out	Removes both background and content (if no ContentOut) (if no Out, In is played in reverse)
4	^CrawlOut	Removes the SceneGroup Parent scene. Used when a ^End scene is available in the SceneGroup

Changing Topics and Subtopics

Order	Scene Director Tag	Description
1	^TopicChange	When the kind of content (stories, weather, etc) change, but the same scene is used to display both. This allows a place to transition out any previous text/graphics and bring in new information.
2	^SubtopicChange	When the group of content (headlines, entertainment, etc) change, but the same scene is used. This allows a place to update the heading for the current content
3	^SubtopicUpdate	When the group of content AND the content changes.
4	^SubtopicChangeCrawl	When the group of content AND the content changes in a crawl. Works if ^SubtopicChange child scene is available in the SceneGroup

The order of a major sequence would be

^Reset
- ^ZoneIn
  - ^In
    - ^ContentIn
    - ^FirstLoop
    - ^PageTwo
  - ^Loop
    - ^Nextpage
    - ^Loop
    - ^NextPage
    - ^Loop
    - ^Update (with ^MoreDataOn)
  - ^Loop
    - ^Nextpage
    - ^Loop
    - ^NextPage (with ^EndDataOn)
    - ^Loop
  - ^Update
  - ^Loop
    - ^Nextpage
    - ^Loop
    - ^NextPage
    - ^Loop
  - ^SubtopicUpdate
    - ^Loop
    - ^Nextpage
    - ^Loop
    - ^NextPage
    - ^Loop
  - ^Update
    - ^Loop
    - ^Nextpage
    - ^Loop
    - ^NextPage
  - ^TopicChange
    - ^Loop
    - ^Nextpage
    - ^Loop
    - ^NextPage
    - ^Loop
  - ^SubtopicUpdate
    - ^Loop
    - ^Nextpage
    - ^Loop
    - ^NextPage
    - ^Loop
  - ^Update
    - ^Loop
    - ^Nextpage
    - ^Loop
    - ^NextPage
- ^Loop
^Out

Updating a Progress Bar

^Progress/^ProgressIdle

These animations are ran with each record change, allowing a place to update the position/text of a progress indicator. When used in conjunction with the ^DataIndex and ^DataCount objects, it provides a way to use scripting to animate progress.

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