Actors have the ability to transition from point A to point B using Tweening.
It allows for queueing up movements & transitions on position, size, color and other attributes as well as commands and messages.
¶ Queueing-style tweens
These help with queueing actions after a certain amount of time.
¶ Sleep
The actor waits for a given amount of seconds before performing the next command.
¶ hibernate
Like sleep, but the actor is also hidden for the duration of the hibernate.
¶ Tween manipulation
These functions manipulate the flow of the tweening
¶ stoptweening
¶ finishtweening
¶ hurrytweening
¶ SM3.95-era tweens
These tweens are what most people would be familiar to those who work with ITG and SM3.95
¶ linear
The actor transitions at a constant rate.
¶ accelerate
¶ decelerate
¶ bouncebegin
It's done in Lua in SM5 for some reason.
¶ bounceend
It's done in Lua in SM5 for some reason.
¶ spring
¶ tween (NotITG only)
Takes a string that references a global function
¶ SM5-era tweens
These tween functions were added in SM5.
¶ "ease"
¶ smooth
¶ drop
¶ bezier
A 2D or 3D bezier curve can be passed into the function to allow for extra tweening options.
¶ OutFox-era tweens
OutFox added all of the standard easing functions. All of these are prefixed with ease and in/out/inout
¶ sine
in: easeinsine, out: easeoutsine, inOut: easeinoutsine
¶ quad
in: easeinquad, out: easeoutquad, inOut: easeinoutquad
¶ cubic
in: easeincubic, out: easeoutcubic, inOut: easeinoutcubic
¶ quart
in: easeinquart, out: easeoutquart, inOut: easeinoutquart
¶ quint
in: easeinquint, out: easeoutquint, inOut: easeinoutquint
¶ expo
in: easeinexpo, out: easeoutexpo, inOut: easeinoutexpo
¶ back
in: easeinback, out: easeoutback, inOut: easeinoutback
¶ circle
in: easeincircle, out: easeoutcircle, inOut: easeinoutcircle
¶ elastic
in: easeinelastic, out: easeoutelastic, inOut: easeinoutelastic
¶ bounce
in: easeinbounce, out: easeoutbounce, inOut: easeinoutbounce