Philippe Elsass is the hell of a skilled flasher. He recently released Eaze a light-weight / feature-loaded / Jquery-style tween library.

I thouhgt he did it to take over the world but actually it was for fun.
I told him I’d do a couple of tests when it would be ready and started tweaking around.

So, you should click the flash to start / stop.
the methods have been added afterwards so the first loops will look buggy when you start anew: it is normal.

first, here’s a rather basic demo to check the callback function ( onComplete() ) and the chaining feature. 36 objects are scattered on a circle. each objects stores a reference to the previous and next objects. when the objects’ tween is over, some actions are called and chained on both the next & previous objects.

should let it roll for a whole turn to have the ‘chain’ sensation :)

second there’s this animated space-invader like pattern generator ( = 130 objects ) it’s the same process + I’ve added a delay() property.

you should already smell something melted in your PC.

third is mostly a “YYYYEEEEEEAAAARRRRRGHH” test: how long will it take your computer to turn into a toaster :)
yep! because this one uses the Bezier feature. so anyway, it would be demanding and (as for the others ) the rendering technique is very expensive ( 2 bitmapdatas + blendModes + colortransform )

lastly, I’ve done a cheat-sheet for easing types:
select once then use the arrows to swap.

actually I never quite got the point of having so many different curves ; either people use the fancy ones with default settings or they just use the most “serious” ones with fine tuning…
who cares ….

I really enjoyed working with Eaze ; it’s a very flexible, light weight and full-featured library.
hope you’ll be using it too, it’s always rewarding for someone to know that his/her work is used and appreciated + in this case it’s deserved ;)

enjoy :)

Tags: Eaze, engine, motion, tween, tweening