How to make whole scene fade out when I press some button?

TaricProductions

How to make the whole scene fade out by clicking one button. I only can make my "Play" button fade out when I click it and I can't find option to fade out whole scene when I click the "Play" button. Also, how to make whole scene fade in when I enter that scene?

tatiang

There isn't a built-in way to do this. You can place an actor with an image that is a black rectangle the size of the scene at the top of the top layer and interpolate its self.color.alpha (opacity) to 0 to fade in. To fade out, reverse the process and change its self.color.alpha to 0 and then interpolate it to 1.

gyroscope

Hi @TaricProductions One straightforward way is to place a full screen-size actor over your screen, or better for editing, just a small black actor at the side of the screen, with a Change Attribute self.Color.Alpha set to 0.

In your Play button, add a boolean change with: Change Attribute FadeGo to true.

And in the actor at the side of the screen, put in its Rules (I've made the numbers for a landscape iPad format, obviously change accordingly for other devices):

When Attribute FadeGo is true
Change Attribute self.Position.X to 512
Change Attribute self.Position.Y to 384
Change Attribute self.Size.Width to 1024
Change Attribute self.Size.Height to 768

Interpolate self.Color.alpha to 1 Time: 3 seconds
Timer: After 3 seconds
Change Scene

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And in the next scene, the small black actor at the side is black and its Rules are similar

Change Attribute self.Position.X to 512
Change Attribute self.Position.Y to 384
Change Attribute self.Size.Width to 1024
Change Attribute self.Size.Height to 768

Interpolate self.Color.alpha to 0 Time: 3 seconds
Timer: After 3 seconds
Destroy

Socks

@tatiang
@gyroscope

I know I sound like a stuck record but I always think it's worth pointing out the little glitch (or 'pop') on the end of the interpolation behaviour (when used over a short value range) - it means your fades will never be seamless unless you trim it off - which (as I'm sure you already know) you can do by overshooting the interpolation range . . . . .

. . . so fade from 0 to 1.1 (rather than 0 to 1)

. . . or fade from 1 to -0.1 (rather than 1 to 0)

Also have you tried animated pattern fades, they can work really well sometimes and if you are using a small pattern (in the examples below the image sequence is just 8x8 pixels) the are very processor and memory light.


3 example files: https://www.mediafire.com/?4d98gc1q2lb9rap



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tatiang

I know I sound like a stuck record but I always think it's worth pointing out the little glitch (or 'pop') on the end of the interpolation behaviour (when used over a short value range) - it means your fades will never be seamless unless you trim it off - which (as I'm sure you already know) you can do by overshooting the interpolation range.

I agree.

Also have you tried animated pattern fades, they can work really well sometimes and if you are using a small pattern (in the examples below the image sequence is just 8x8 pixels) the are very processor and memory light.

@Socks Very clever!

gyroscope

I know I sound like a stuck record but I always think it's worth pointing out the little glitch (or 'pop') on the end of the interpolation behaviour (when used over a short value range) - it means your fades will never be seamless unless you trim it off - which (as I'm sure you already know) you can do by overshooting the interpolation range.

I agree.

Also have you tried animated pattern fades, they can work really well sometimes and if you are using a small pattern (in the examples below the image sequence is just 8x8 pixels) the are very processor and memory light.

@Socks Very clever!

Ditto!

Socks

@tatiang
@gyroscope

You can get some great effects by playing around with the tile size values, even animating them (I'm sure you couldn't animate tile size values before, but you can now), for example with the dots, try changing their tile size from what it is at the moment (8 x 8) to 8 x 300 . . . .

gyroscope

Ha! Excellent, @Socks!! B-)

I kick myself for not trying that combination.... excellent... ah, I've just said that.... :-) Just done a test, and animated patterns are go... excell..... oh, you get the picture... ;-)

Armelline

@Socks you really should consider pulling together your 50 favourite mini-templates/effects and bundling them together into a "Socks Drawer" collection that you sell.

You make so many insanely cool things that you give away for free. I don't want to discourage you from doing so but there's room for a paid collection too, I'm sure

j75

socks drawer... lol