Category Archives: Tools and methods

Today I wanted to further rearrange the transition definitions so they more closely matched those used by the Greensock animation product I’ve been emulating. A screenshot from their demo video is shown here: The next step is to move the … Continue reading →

If we have the full animation state specified for every animation step then one of the easiest things we can do is to change the speed of the animation by changing the increment, which is shown below. Clicking on any … Continue reading →

Here is the updated version that uses the information in the bcTransformList to build the cleanest possible stream of transformation events in the bcActivitiesList. The need for a separate structure to hold the initial and final states of the animation … Continue reading →

Continuing on from yesterday, once we get the transforms into a nice compact list in time order by type and by element we can go ahead and define the tweens for each type of transformation stream. However, I noticed that … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s attempt wasn’t too bad; I needed to fix the declaration and use of the object that holds the transform information (yesterday’s form only works if you initialize the internal member values with literals) and I needed to tweak a … Continue reading →

I found it necessary to create a list of elements that will be transformed during the animation. Within each list of elements there will be a sublist of transform types. Within each list of transform types there will be a … Continue reading →

Drawing things out graphically is always good to clarify thoughts, so I’ve done that with the problem at hand. Here I show the array of animation steps in a shorthand form. The red areas show steps where multiple assignments are … Continue reading →