Open a flower petal by petal and close it again in the reverse order

When a puzzle piece blooms into a flower, opening every petal together looks like an umbrella. Delaying them one after another helps, but closing the flower by simply running the same animation backwards is wrong in a way people sense. Here is a timeline that opens and closes naturally and ends on a known time.

Why this works

Things that unfold read as natural when they follow a visible order, here from the middle outward, and closing is that film played backwards. Running time backwards instead of inventing a second motion keeps both directions matching.

When not to use it

Not when the flower must react to the player mid-way, such as a bloom that can be stopped or reversed at any moment. A fixed timeline cannot be interrupted smoothly, so track how open each petal is instead.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• 27 lines of example code with 4 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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Use the Spielerando entry "Open a flower petal by petal and close it again in the reverse order" (read_entry flower-petals-open-from-the-middle-outwards-and-close-in-reverse) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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