How i can make this glitch effect smoother?

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Hi!

I’m trying to create a glitch effect with a label.

Here’s my code:

function init(self)
	go.animate("child", "position.x", go.PLAYBACK_LOOP_FORWARD, 500, go.EASING_LINEAR, 4)
	go.animate("child", "position.y", go.PLAYBACK_LOOP_FORWARD, -500, go.EASING_LINEAR, 2)
	for i = 1,16 do
		timer.delay(i/16, true, function() local dude = go.get_position("child") go.set_position(vmath.vector3(dude.x, dude.y, 0.001), "child"..i) end)
	end
end

And here’s what it looks like.

Hopefully the problem is clear: I want a more regular glitch effecting where the distance between each instance of the label is the same.

Any help?

2

… okay, it is clear something is wrong with the timer. Printing i within the callback section gives me this miss:

DEBUG:SCRIPT: 3
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 1
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 5
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 10
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 1
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 2
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 4
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 7
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 1
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 3
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 11
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 1
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 2
DEBUG:SCRIPT: 1

3

Are those the first 16 output lines?

I assume it’s not, since you have repeating timers, at different intervals: 1/16, 2/16 and so on.

4

I have more-or-less solved this by just having 16 go.animate()s, each with a slight delay.

But no, those are not the first 16 lines. But shouldn’t the output stay regular all the time (…and follow the same order: 1, 2, 3 etc on a loop?)

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…okay, I just realised how stupid this mistake was. I only need one timer, and I should put the “for i = 1,16” in the callback.

I guess I just needed to sleep on it. I’ll fix this later this morning. Thanks for your input Mathias!

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6

No, not if you tell them to trigger on different intervals.

7

now THAT is smooth!

nb. mathias thanks for helping me with this despite the fact that it was glaring obvious

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8

more synced faux 3D text work right here!

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