Simple Zoomer Question

Animation Issues

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I have made a very basic 7 frame zoomer to access my Razr. My problem is that when mousing over the object, the animation repeats itself 2-3 times and sometimes repeats again after mouse away. I believe it is based on the position of the mouse on top of the object. The animation goes from the full face of the phone to a side profile of the phone (a big difference with a Razr). I'm afraid this is what's causing it but I have the activation area set to rectangular so I don't know how it could be. Any ideas on what could be happening?
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Setting activation to rectangular is actually probably a good idea. If your image has totally transparent areas, and is set to activate on visible area, as the image animates, the mouse will at time be over and not over the image. Which means it triggers the animation multiple times. Which gets stored in a queue ready to animate as soon as the previous animations finish. So you can end up, if you wave the mouse pointer quickly on and off such a zoomer, having the animation run again and again.

Two suggestions. One, take your animated image, and add to it in a graphic editor a 1% transparency background, so that every pixel has some visible element, even if the eye does not percieve it. This is just a "to be on the safe side" suggestion.

Also, in your Object Properties->States Tab->Animation Tab there is a check box "Interruptable". Be sure this box is checked for all object states -- "Mouse over" and "Mouse away" probably. This means that instead of lining up the animation triggers in a queue, that rather each new event cancels any previous, and should prevent the multiple animations.

Good luck, hope that helps.
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