# `Animations.stop`

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Method of [`Animations`](Animations.md) · stable · since 2.0.0 · called as `session.animations.stop`

```ts
stop(target: string | Part, clip: string, options?: C & SignalOption): Promise<Report>;
```

The clip back to its first frame, stopped; its next `toggle` plays forward. Fires 'animation:stopped' if it was playing or paused (through a `tx`, when the commit is shown). Through a `tx`: staged. A missing clip or target: as [`play`](Animations.play.md).

## Options

Through [`Session`](Session.md):

| Option | Type | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `actor` | `Actor` | the `expectGroup`'s actor when one is given, else 'app' | Who made the write. |
| `dryRun` | `boolean` | false | Runs and reports, then rolls back by design ('dry-run'). |
| `expectGroup` | `HistoryGroup` | undefined | A guard, checked at the call: this write belongs to the undo group you are running. |
| `expectRevision` | `number` | undefined (no check) | If-match on [`session.revision`](Session.revision.md). |
| `origin` | `string` | null | Your tag, echoed unchanged in [`Report.origin`](ReportFields.origin.md) and `cause.origin`. |
| `signal` | `AbortSignal` | undefined | Cancels this call; the member's JSDoc says what an abort does. |
| `supersede` | `boolean` | false (the write is queued behind the transaction and applies after it closes) | While a transaction is open: roll it back (it resolves 'superseded'); the writes queued behind it apply in call order, then this one, which supersedes an… |
| `undo` | `'rebase' \| (string & {})` | a recorded-state change gets one step labelled 'Change'; a look-only write gets none; the session's first model (cause 'load') gets none, whatever the label: it is the floor of history | An undo label makes this write one undo step. |

Through [`Tx`](Tx.md):

| Option | Type | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `signal` | `AbortSignal` | undefined | Cancels this call; the member's JSDoc says what an abort does. |

Refused here (typed `never`, so passing one fails to compile): `actor`, `checkpoint`, `dryRun`, `expectGroup`, `expectRevision`, `origin`, `supersede`, `undo`.

## Abort (`signal`)

This call is a write (`SignalOption.signal`, [the kinds of call](../read-this-first.md#conventions)).

> A write: before the commit point it rolls back and rejects AbortError; after it, no effect, except that a running camera move stops where the last frame drew it (`CameraMoveOptions`).
>
> Through a `tx` the commit point is the transaction's: aborting a write still loading rejects AbortError and stages nothing (catch it: unobserved, it rolls the transaction back, spec section 6.1, O6); aborting one already staged unstages it, its paths keeping the latest other write to them as after a failed savepoint (O7), and its Promise stays resolved 'staged'.

## Generic-API test (spec 3.1)

| Rule | Result |
| --- | --- |
| 1. Neutral name | pass: `stop` names no product |
| 2. A precedent | pass: [Unity AnimationClip.SampleAnimation](https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationClip.SampleAnimation.html) (row `G36`) |
| 3. Two apps, or labs | pass: 21 apps (ledger: app-f9a32142f1; fleet cross-check: app-04c2774145, app-0c773a4ee3, app-37356bf09f, app-4762caacdc, app-4fd23bc869, app-822bb9d6aa, app-8675b3225c, app-b362a81c85 and 13 more) |
| 4. The cheaper fix first | decided per need in Appendix B: rows `G36` at tier stable (a member only where no rule, data, asset or app code serves the need) |