How to loop SVG animation sequence?

Question

I have sequence of animationTransform:

<animateTransform attributeName="transform" attributeType="XML" type="rotate" from="0" to="30" begin="0s" dur="0.4s" fill="freeze"/>
<animateTransform attributeName="transform" attributeType="XML" type="rotate" from="30" to="0" begin="0.4s" dur="0.4s" fill="freeze"/>

If it possible to loop this sequence without using script?

I can set individual animation to loop by using repeatCount="indefinite" by I want to loop the whole sequence in order.

Stomatic

Answer 1

Figured it out already. Solution for those who are interested:

<animateTransform id="anim1" attributeName="transform" attributeType="XML" type="rotate" from="0" to="30" begin="0s; anim2.end" dur="0.4s" fill="freeze"/>
<animateTransform id="anim2" attributeName="transform" attributeType="XML" type="rotate" from="30" to="0" begin="anim1.end" dur="0.4s" fill="freeze"/>

Stomatic

Works in (oold) Firefox 10, doesn't work in (up-to-date) Chrome 32, just if anyone encounters the same issue. And some useful links describing all the capabilities of animation timing: W3C SVG 1.1 Spec., Developer.Mozilla.org. – Confectioner

Answer 2

You can also just loop within a single animateTransform by providing a values attribute with a semi-colon separated list:

<animateTransform attributeName="transform" type="rotate"
     values="0;30;0" begin="0s" dur="0.8s" fill="freeze"
     repeatCount="indefinite" />

Here's an example (checked in Firefox 4.0 and Chrome).

Trengganu

@janaspage I just stumbled across documentation for the values attribute here: w3.org/TR/smil-animation/#ValuesAttribute – Pinniped

although this accomplishes the task, it doesn't actually sequence two animations; would be nice to know how to sequence animations and repeart them in SMIL – Howdy

Answer 3

it's also possible to add/subtract (milli)seconds:

  begin="anim2.end-500ms"

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