Method timeScale

src/gsap-core.js:1247–1265

(value, suppressEvents)

	// }

	timeScale(value, suppressEvents) {
		if (!arguments.length) {
			return this._rts === -_tinyNum ? 0 : this._rts; // recorded timeScale. Special case: if someone calls reverse() on an animation with timeScale of 0, we assign it -_tinyNum to remember it's reversed.
		}
		if (this._rts === value) {
			return this;
		}
		let tTime = this.parent && this._ts ? _parentToChildTotalTime(this.parent._time, this) : this._tTime; // make sure to do the parentToChildTotalTime() BEFORE setting the new _ts because the old one must be used in that calculation.

		// future addition? Up side: fast and minimal file size. Down side: only works on this animation; if a timeline is reversed, for example, its childrens' onReverse wouldn't get called.
		//(+value < 0 && this._rts >= 0) && _callback(this, "onReverse", true);

		// prioritize rendering where the parent's playhead lines up instead of this._tTime because there could be a tween that's animating another tween's timeScale in the same rendering loop (same parent), thus if the timeScale tween renders first, it would alter _start BEFORE _tTime was set on that tick (in the rendering loop), effectively freezing it until the timeScale tween finishes.
		this._rts = +value || 0;
		this._ts = (this._ps || value === -_tinyNum) ? 0 : this._rts; // _ts is the functional timeScale which would be 0 if the animation is paused.
		this.totalTime(_clamp(-Math.abs(this._delay), this.totalDuration(), tTime), suppressEvents !== false);
		_setEnd(this); // if parent.smoothChildTiming was false, the end time didn't get updated in the _alignPlayhead() method, so do it here.
		return _recacheAncestors(this);
	}

	paused(value) {
		if (!arguments.length) {