What the heck does interpolate do?

jckmcgraw

Hey guys,

I am very new with working with game salad, but am still making some good progress. I have scrolled through the list of behaviors many times, but I have no idea what the interpolate behavior does.

Thanks in advanced for everybody's help.

LaurenSalad

Hey! Welcome to the community!

Make sure to check out GameSalad Cookbook where there are great "Getting started" tutorials. Also, there is a dictionary available with a glossary of terms. That should help you with the interpolate behavior! http://cookbook.gamesalad.com/definitions

firemaplegames

Interpolate works as a "tweening" engine. You can Interpolate the value of an attribute from one value to another.

It is one of the more powerful behaviors in GameSalad, and lets you create complex animations from a few simple Actors, instead of costly .png sequence animations.

By Interpolating the X and Y coordinates, you can move Actors across the screen, make menus and panels slide in, etc.
You could Interpolate score values so your scores don't just jump to a new value but "roll".
By Interpolating the alpha attribute you can have Actors fade in and out.
You can Interpolate the sound volume to fade your music in and out.

tenrdrmer

Interpolate is the most amazing thing on the face of the Earth!!!!

Ok maybe slightly exaggerating but really its extremely valuable and is really only limited by you imagination.

cbt

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@jckmcgraw
Are you someones nephew or something?

jckmcgraw

Thanks so much everyone!

jckmcgraw

@cbt what?