BJS Timeline / Timed sequence of actions

[FlashyGoblin]

Looking for the best approach to create a simulated timeline of actions/events. For example, over a 2 minute timeline I would like to animate my camera around my scene on a curved path, and have numerous things happen at certain times in my timeline. I could create a timer/timeline object from scratch, but was wondering if there is a better BJS way of handling this. 

Imagine a camera navigating through a house, at 10 seconds in the door opens, at 15 seconds a light turns on, at 25 seconds a painting on the wall rotates and falls to the ground. 

Also looking for an approach to easily tweaks the timeline of events. 

Does this sound like something that should be handled within Unity or in code.

Interested in everyone's thoughts. Thanks! 

[Pryme8]

off the top of my head...
var start = (new Date()).getTime();
action = function(name, time, callback){
this.name = name || "New-Event";
this.time = time;
this.callback = callback;
return this;
};
var events = [new action("Step-1", start+(1000*6), function(){...}),
new action("Step-2", start+(1000*10), function(){...}),
]

onbeforeRegister =>
for(var i=0; i<events.length;i++){
var cE = events;
var now = (new Date()).getTime();
if(cE.time < now){
 var cE = events.splice(i,1);
i--;
cE.callback();
}
}


should get you in the right direction.

[GameMonetize]

This may be not enough but why not just using setTimeout in this case?

[JohnK]

A rather belated answer but I have been spending sometime getting to grips with BJS animation object.

Will add some documentation to the following PG in the week but shows how it is possible to produce a sequence of animations

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#2L26P1

[julien-moreau]

why not using animation events of @Temechon ? It is directly integrated in bjs

[JohnK]

@Luaacro I believe I am using the integrated animation events as in line 33.  If there is a better way of putting together a sequence of animations then I would be very grateful to learn how. The PG is just one I made from what I have learned so far. Any adjustments very welcome.

[JohnK]

Still learning  - in writing the documentation for the PG I gave in earlier post I came up with a simplified way of putting together animations which you can find written about here

http://babylonjsguide.github.io/gamelets/Sequence though you might also want to read this first http://babylonjsguide.github.io/basics/Starter