Timelines are a powerful mechanism for controlling events in your game, and are based on "moments", where a "moment" is simply a single game step. These timelines are generally created from the Resource Tree using the Timeline Editor in a similar way to an object, ie: you create a timeline, then in each moment that you require it to perform an action you add some code or a DnD™ icon for it to perform. Once created, you can then stop, start, and manipulate timelines through code. You can even modify individual moments by defining a script and adding it into the timeline dynamically from a controller object (for example), making this a very powerful and versatile tool when creating your games.

General Functions

The following functions are for adding and manipulating Timelines from within your game:

• timeline_exists
  
• timeline_get_name
  
• timeline_add
  
• timeline_delete
  
• timeline_moment_add_script
  
• timeline_moment_clear
  
• timeline_clear
  
• timeline_size
  
• timeline_max_moment
  

Instance Variables

The following variables are "built in" to all instances to make working with Timelines easier and give you control over:

• timeline_index
  
• timeline_running
  
• timeline_speed
  
• timeline_position
  
• timeline_loop
  

Note that you can find further information on instance variables here: Instance Variables.