GTween beta 5 was originally going to consist of minor bug fixes, but it's quickly become a low level rewrite of the entire tweening library. I've simplified a lot of the logic, added new features, increased performance, improved reliability, made the code more readable, and even slightly reduced file size.
It will be another week or so before it is released (still fixing bugs and addressing edge cases), but I thought I would post a quick demo showing the much more powerful and easy to use sequencing features in beta 5.
All of this animation is done with GTween. Notice that you can move the slider, or click on its track to jump to any position in the sequence, and everything will display properly for that position. Also note the blur filters on the buttons as they tween into position.
Comments (22)
slick. could have used this six months ago. :)
Posted by: Jesse Pulsipher at January 22, 2009 04:21 PMURL:
Genius, absolutely amazing.
Posted by: TK at January 22, 2009 04:58 PMURL: http://blog.tkassembled.com
OMG. This is a game changer. (And I was thrilled with beta 4...)
Posted by: Zach at January 22, 2009 06:13 PMTweener is dead to me now.
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Amazing! The way tweening should be!
Posted by: Nek at January 22, 2009 07:14 PMURL: http://nikitadudnik.com/blog
This is awesome Grant. Can't wait till it's out!
Posted by: jassa at January 22, 2009 10:39 PMURL: http://www.bangersandflash.net
great stuff. I'll definitely try this one.
Posted by: Martin at January 23, 2009 12:33 AMURL: http://www.formatlos.de
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G...great stuff. Game changer, indeed.
Posted by: Angel Romero at January 23, 2009 03:58 AMURL: http://flashspeaksactionscript.com
Angel Romero at >>>>>>>
Posted by: ku at January 23, 2009 06:33 AMURL: http://jsiqpu
Can't wait to get my hands on this.
Posted by: steve at January 23, 2009 07:05 AMURL: http://enginpost.com
Indeed this is very cool. I can't wait to see the final package.
Posted by: Carlo at January 23, 2009 07:42 AMURL: http://www.alducente.com
Nice work!
Posted by: Justin Putney at January 23, 2009 10:31 AMURL: http://blog.ajarproductions.com
That's what she said!!!
Posted by: Sebastian at January 23, 2009 10:31 AMURL: http://gskinner.com
This is great thanks. Any chance of releasing some notes on what you did , specifically, to optimize. Maybe pick one or two things and talk about about how / why you changed it.
Posted by: Alan Klement at January 23, 2009 12:11 PMURL:
Very interesting. I'm curious to see how this all works out.
Posted by: Ian at January 23, 2009 04:33 PMURL: http://www.voxinforma.com
The only thing better than showing the example is showing how much code it took in gTween to implement the sequencing and the slider. Sneak peak at gt5? ;-)
Posted by: John C. Bland II at January 24, 2009 10:05 AMURL: http://www.johncblandii.com
Usefull. This demo will make me switch to gTween :)
Posted by: gally at January 26, 2009 12:43 AMURL: http://polyvalythe.com
Great job! I've been looking for a replacement for Tweener and it's between your GTween and Tweensy. I suppose there will be a time and a place for either.
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Posted by: Andrew Christensen at January 26, 2009 10:05 AMURL: http://blog.728media.com
Good bye TweenLite, farewell TweenMax, Hello gTween. You sir, are a genius. Now, where's the donate button?
Posted by: qbix at January 26, 2009 10:31 PMURL:
I'd wait until you try it to worry about donating... it could still suck. ;)
Seriously though, it's all free... I'm mostly building it for myself and my company, so no donations are expected or asked for. If you want to show support, blog it or tell a friend about it.
Thanks to everyone for the encouraging comments, makes me feel that I'm barking up the right tree with these modifications.
Posted by: Grant Skinner at January 26, 2009 10:55 PMURL: http://gskinner.com/blog/
Nice work! I'm curious if GTween 5 will target Flash Player 10 only (or have an FP10 version), as it seems you could speed it up that much more by using Vectors.
Posted by: JP DeVries at January 28, 2009 05:49 PMURL: http://nemohq.com
That is just wonderful. Thnak you for all the time spent on the project.
/ockley
Posted by: ockley at January 29, 2009 01:06 AMURL: http://www.hjaelpmignu.dk
I am using ver. 4 already. Can't wait for next level! :) Great work!
Posted by: Dragos at February 2, 2009 09:16 AMURL: http://www.solidpitch.com