Re: [pygame] tween engines in pygame?

[Timothee Groleau <tg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks you for the info Ian and Rene.

I will work something out from here.

Tim.


On 19 February 2009 pm 12:06:28 René Dudfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> you can follow the method in this tutorial:
> http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/MoveIt.html
>
> Also this one explains how different interpolators work, for smoothing
> in and out:
> http://sol.gfxile.net/interpolation/index.html
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Timothee Groleau
>
> <tg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > Newcomer here, I just started using both python and pyGame a few days
> > ago, please bear with me.
> >
> > I'm trying to make a math flashcard program for my kids (following the
> > Doman method). I can already generate my cards so that's fine but I'm not
> > sure how to handle the next steps: improving drawing quality and handling
> > motion.
> >
> > Firstly, I'm drawing dots using pygame.draw.ellipse, is there any way to
> > draw antialiased ellipses in pygame?
> >
> > Secondly, to represent cards as almost physical cards, I want to animate
> > them in and out of the screen. I come from the Actionscript world where I
> > am used to tween engines. With these engines, I can let a property of a
> > movieclip (x, y, width, etc.) change over time, and specify how the
> > change occurs using pluggable easing methods (see.
> > http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/easing_demo.html for example). Is
> > there such a thing in pygame, and/or it is called something else? I can
> > code some animation by hand, but I figured such animation engines must
> > already exist.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance!
> > Tim.