Anima
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An addon to run sequential and parallel animations with few line of codes compared to Tween
Anima
Anima is an addon for Godot that allows you to create sequential and parallel animations with less code compared to Tween.
Introduction
Creating sequential and parallel animations using Tween can be a bit tedious, and Anima allows you doing that with few lines of code and a simple syntax. It has built-in about 89 animations and 33 easings, with the ability to easily add your own. You can also add your own with a CSS inspired syntax.
Table of Contents
- Installation
- Documentation & Demo
- Differences between Anima and Godot Tween
- Stay in Touch
- Contribution
- License
Installation
This is a regular editor plugin. Copy the contents of addons/Anima into the same folder in your project, and activate it in your project settings.
Documentation & Demo
Check out documentation, demo code and live examples.
Differences between Anima and Godot Tween
| Anima | Tween | |
|---|---|---|
| Chaining | support for sequential, parallel and concurrent animations | possible but need to be done manually |
| Easing | 33 built-in, (it will be extended in 0.2) | 10 and no support for custom ones |
| Create and reuse custom animations | 89 built-in, more can be added programmatically | possible but not as easy |
| Animate elements in group | yes (it will be extended in 0.2) | possible but need to manually animate each individual element |
| Loop | Infinite, Times, and delayed loops | Infinite only |
| Animate relative values | yes | possible but need to be done manually |
| Play/Loop backwards | yes | no |
| Change speed on fly | 0.4 | no |
| Animation path (position only) | 0.5 | no |
What does it mean in terms of code? Here an overview of Anima vs Godot Tween code for simple animation:
For more info about the differences have a look here
Stay in Touch
Contribution
Contributions are welcome and are accepted via pull requests.
License
MIT
Copyright (c) 2021-present, Alessandro Senese (ceceppa)
An addon to run sequential and parallel animations with few line of codes compared to Tween
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An addon to run sequential and parallel animations with few line of codes compared to Tween