"Revealing" an Actor

mcarreramcarrera Member Posts: 3
edited July 2012 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know if it is possible to "reveal" an actor (for lack of a better word) with a "wipe" effect? What I mean is, I have an actor that is a tree. I want the tree to look like it's growing from it's bottom to it's top. (I'm not talking about a scale or an interpolate)

Like in Keynote or PowerPoint, you can "build in" an object on your slide in a number of different ways - dissolve, move in, spin, etc. Well one of them is "wipe". Is there a way to replicate that effect in GamesSalad.

Hope this question even makes sense for people. Thanks for any help you might have!!

Mike

Answers

  • 921creative921creative Member, PRO Posts: 140
    One simple way would be to have a rectangular actor that matches your background that sits on top of the tree, which you then move or interpolate up, revealing the tree.
  • developer6810developer6810 Member Posts: 139
    @921creative

    Yeah, that's a great idea.
  • mcarreramcarrera Member Posts: 3
    Thanks 921! Yeah, I thought about that too. Unfortunately, my background is pretty complicated (as opposed to just a solid color). It would look strange to have a chunk of background just suddenly move up. Thanks for the tip though.
  • ekelrockekelrock Member Posts: 34
    You could animate the object. If the actor is a tree, for example, save it with just the bottom showing, then a little more, and so on until you have the whole tree. Then just play the animation when you want to "reveal" the tree... I can't think of anything more clever than that at the moment.
  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772
    It's not a wipe but your could interpolate your actors alpha to fade it in from 0 to 100%.

    jamie
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