When I open an overlay, all animations play. How can I stop it?

Hi ​@Javiera Villarroel, thanks for reaching out! 

I completely understand how this must be affecting your workflow. From what you've described, it sounds like opening an overlay elsewhere on the page is re-triggering the velocimeter animation rather than just leaving it alone. That shouldn't happen if the animation is only meant to fire on its own click interaction. A few things that'd help us pin down what's going on:

1. Is the velocimeter animation set up as a component with a Motion timeline, or as an on-click prototype interaction (or both layered together)?
2. Does the overlay you're opening live on the same frame as the velocimeter, or a different one?
3. Does this happen every time you open any overlay on that page, or only a specific one?
4. Would you be able to share a screen recording? That'll let us see the exact setup and try to reproduce it on our end.

One thing worth trying: check whether the velocimeter's animation is nested inside the same frame as the overlay trigger. If so, try moving the overlay trigger to a separate frame/component so it's not sharing a timeline context with the animation. It's not guaranteed to fix it, but it's a useful data point either way. We'll continue troubleshooting together as soon as we hear back from you!

Hello, I'm having a similar issue.

I have a fading animation track placed on a toast notification using Motion:
 

This Toast component instance is placed at the root of the Screen frame the toast is appearing on.

Elsewhere on this screen, and inside another frame “Content” for that screen (i.e. different parent frame than the Toast Notification), I have a button that triggers an overlay menu when clicked. This button is actually part of another Component Instance:
 

When I play the prototype and click on the Button instance to open the overlay, the Toast Notification reappears, plays its animation again. This motion animation is configured to NOT loop. It's triggered without any interactions aside from arriving on that screen from the previous one. It's not nested in the same frame as the button.
Any ideas?
 

Hey, ​@Greg Szriftgiser! Thanks for your post and for using Motion. That’s definitely not ideal that your animation loops when using an overlay.

Good news - our team is aware of this and is working on a fix regarding Motion timelines replaying when viewing a prototype with an overlay, so that should be resolved soon. I’ll keep an eye on this on our end and update here again once the fix has been released. In the meantime, let me us know if you have any other questions!