"Revealing" an Actor

mcarrera

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

921creative

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.

developer6810

@921creative

Yeah, that's a great idea.

mcarrera

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.

ekelrock

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_c

It's not a wipe but your could interpolate your actors alpha to fade it in from 0 to 100%.

jamie