# shared <!-- zero:scaffolded-readme --> <!-- Replace the line below with what this module provides and who consumes it, then delete both comment lines. --> TODO: describe this module.

# director Drive the Raising Preseed demo sequencer while it plays — jump straight to a part, freeze it, rebuild it after an edit, and read the clock. The demo is a 14-part, ~5½ minute timeline. Watching it from the top to reach part 9 costs four minutes every iteration, which is the whole reason this toolbox exists: `director.goto tides` puts the part on screen in one call, and `director.hold` freezes the clock so the part stays there for as many captures and edits as the work needs. ## The loop this is for ``` director.goto tides -- put the part on screen from its first frame director.hold true -- freeze the clock; the part keeps simulating … edit the part module / its materials / its shaders via the VFS … director.rebuild -- tear the part down and build it again on the edit capture -- look at the result ``` `rebuild` is the step that picks up an edit. A part builds its content once, on entry, so editing its module changes nothing until the part is entered again — `rebuild` runs its `exit` hook, despawns everything it tracked, and lets the next tick run `build` + `enter` against the new source. ## The clock `goto` and `replay` both enter a part from its first frame. `seek` is the raw clock move for landing at an exact moment inside a part — the third shot of TIDES, the beat a strike lands on. `rate` runs the demo slower, faster or backwards without touching the parts themselves: they are handed the signed dt, so anything deriving its state from the part-local time reverses exactly. `status` reports where the clock is; `parts` reports the whole schedule, which is where the part names `goto` accepts come from. ## Requires play mode The sequencer only runs in play. In edit mode there is no clock to drive and every tool here reports that rather than pretending it moved something.