timesensor

TimeSensor {
  exposedField SFTime   cycleInterval 1
  exposedField SFBool   enabled       TRUE
  exposedField SFBool   loop          FALSE
  exposedField SFTime   startTime     0
  exposedField SFTime   stopTime      0
  eventOut     SFTime   cycleTime
  eventOut     SFFloat  fraction_changed
  eventOut     SFBool   isActive
  eventOut     SFTime   time
}

• Critical node for designing animations
• Usually routed to an interpolator
• cycleInterval should not be too short or frames of animation are skipped
• If stopTime is less than startTime it is ignored
• If startTime is less than 0 then the timesensors triggers on loading
• set loop to TRUE and startTime to -1 to play an animation forever

Example