To animate within GameSalad or not

slider17

Hi

I am at a lost as to which option to choose when it comes to animating the following scenario.

I have an actor in my screen that i want to scale up and then down in size when the user touches it. A simple animation, say over 1.5 secs.

Is their a way to do this in GS, or is it easier to create an img sequence animation in an external application like After Effects and import it using the animate behaviour??

It would be great if GS could handle this.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

JodyMitoma

No no, this is not an "animate" feature. You'd simply do an "interpolate" attribute, and set it make your changes within. You'll see you are even given a "seconds" area where you could simply place in 1.5 seconds!

slider17

ok with this interpolate attribute what are the settings to scale the actor over a 1.5sec duration??

if u select size.width in the first box, what do u put in the second box??

Socks

@slider17 said:
ok with this interpolate attribute what are the settings to scale the actor over a 1.5sec duration??

if u select size.width in the first box, what do u put in the second box??

Let's start with a 150 pixel wide actor.

Rule: When touched . . .

Interpolate the size.width to 300

Interpolate the size.height to 300

Rule: When size:width is 300 . . .

Interpolate the size.width to 150

Interpolate the size.height to 150

slider17

yup thanks Socks, managed to also find a interpolate tutorial on youtube.

JodyMitoma

Rock on! Keep eating that Salad!