Duplicating animation and then killing the objects after a set time

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

@courtney

Part 1: Is there a way to play an animation in a way that duplicates the instance in order to play the animation again without loosing the original element? For Example: a drop of water lands in a bucket. To play the animation again, the drop in the bucket disappears so the timeline can play again.

There's no way to dynamically create or duplicate elements/symbols and insert them into Hype's runtime. You'll have to make multiple copies ahead of time - enough to make sure they don't all get used so it appears they are all new.

Of course this is something common that would be nice to for Hype .

@courtney

Part 2: I understand that this can be a heavy build after awhile. Is there a way of killing the instances after a certain amount of time? Maybe fades after x amount of seconds and then dies?

I assume you're referring to physics bodies? If it is able to settle down, they will "sleep" but there's a lot of bouncing/falling situations where this might not be the case. You could make a timeline or animation that gets triggered at some much later point that could change it from dynamic to inactive via keyframes. There's not a way to do this from code (but we have perhaps the longest forum thread about adding a Physics API!)