I have this extrude-loop in Simulation Nodes.
How can I restart it from scratch every 4th second like a lightning that spawns from the same spot every 4th second?
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Chanfiroly's answer (at least as presented here ) won't work if the framerate multiplied by your desired bolt lifetime doesn't produce a whole number. For example:
- 23.976 FPS animation will jump through the 4 second mark
- a lifetime that isn't a whole number will be hard to hit exactly
- even if at first the animation works, it can stop working after a longer time: A Shader Trick
So instead you should do this:
Markus von Broady
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Wonderful! Even though, I replicated the network exactly. Why does it slow down from 60fps to even 20fps when one keeps playing the loop for 5000 frames? I can see in the spreadsheet that the vertices get resetted like they should.... weird – Manu Järvinen Jun 26 '23 at 12:42
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Ah, yes, it's because cache keeps building up - makes sense. Most probably happens with every type of network, so, gotta live with it. Okay. Good. – Manu Järvinen Jun 26 '23 at 12:54
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Would you know how to make the growth of the line gradually slow down during the 4 second-cycle, but still reset itself to grow full speed in the beginning of each cycle? The extrude-node's Offset Scale should be multiplied with 0.995 for every frame I think, but I can't get it to reset every 4 seconds... – Manu Järvinen Jun 26 '23 at 19:14
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Ah! I think I got it :) I divided the result from Modulo by 8 and Subtracted it from 0.5 and put that into the Extrude Mesh's Offset Scale - Seems to work how I like it to work. – Manu Järvinen Jun 26 '23 at 19:28
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@ManuJärvinen yep that's how I would do it. – Markus von Broady Jun 26 '23 at 19:28
