Tweening

[Anxiety]

How can i tween an image between two positions? Yet again, its for the game im making,

Thanks!

[ivan]

How can i tween an image between two positions? Yet again, its for the game im making

If I remember correctly, 'tweening' in Flash is a bit of a general term that includes modulating/alpha blending the sprite not only transforming it.
If you're only trying to change position of a sprite you could trying something like:

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elapsed = elapsed + delta
local t = math.min ( elapsed / totalTime, 1 )
x = (fpx - ipx) * t
y = (fpy - ipy) * t
if t == 1 then
  -- target reached
end

where fpx, fpy is the final position and ipx, ipy is the initial position

I personally find it easeier to use a velocity instead of storing the 'total' and 'elapsed' time:

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local dx = fpx - x
local dy = fpy - y
local dist = math.sqrt ( dx * dx + dy * dy )
local step = velocity * delta
if dist <= step then
  x = fpx
  y = fpy
  -- target reached
else
  x = x + dx / dist * step
  y = y + dy / dist * step
end

[BlackBulletIV]

The most raw way is to use a timer and some target variables. For example:

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time = 0 -- the current time
target = 1 -- the target time
start = 0 -- the starting value
targetVal = 300 -- the target value

function love.update(dt)
  time = time + dt
  current = start + (targetVal - start) * (time / target)
end

You could then use current as the position. However, this approach quickly gets messy. I personally create a class to handle it all for me, but EmmanuelOga created a tweening library which you might want to use.

EDIT: Ninja'd. (At least with showing a raw method anyway)

[TechnoCat]

vrld's HUMP library will help with interpolations (tweens) too. http://vrld.github.com/hump/#timer-Interpolator

[EmmanuelOga]

Here are a couple of examples you can try which use the "tweener" library.


https://github.com/EmmanuelOga/tweener/ ... mples/love

To run it, get git. Download it here:

https://github.com/EmmanuelOga/tweener/zipball/master

then:

cd tweener;
love examples/love/follow
love examples/love/circle
love examples/love/simple
love examples/love/size_and_pos