{"id":2109,"date":"2015-02-05T20:37:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2015-02-21T23:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T22:22:02","slug":"tween-engine-go-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/tween-engine-go-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tween engine Go – part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

My last post<\/a> was about my new WIP tween library Go.<\/p>\n

I have been updating my little experiment and it’s getting better.
\nLooking into other libraries codes is very educational.<\/p>\n

Does it perform as good as the default Haxe tween engine Actuate<\/a>?
\nYeah that would have been great, but nope… around 1300 object, Go will start dropping frame-rate in Flash.<\/p>\n

My goal was to create a lightweight, simple, compact, chainable tween library for haxe\/openfl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Could I perform as good as Actuate?
\nI am not sure, Actuate is very well written and Joshua Granick has been working on it for a long time and tested it extensively.
\nBut I probably could improve on my code and get a better performance in Flash (in which I did the stress-test<\/a>). The downside is that my code will be full of condition compilation<\/a> and that would mean the code would become more and more complex.<\/p>\n

Why am I sure it will improve, well I cheated and did some flash specific code modifications.
\nCheck the code in github<\/a>
\nIn my first draft it was just:<\/p>\n

\r\nvar range = _props.get(n);\r\nReflect.setProperty(_target, n, _easing.ease( time, range.from, (range.to-range.from), _duration ) );\r\n<\/pre>\n
and that performed very bad in Flash (if I remember correctly the framerate already dropped after 100 object)
\nAnd I updated it to this and that works better… for Flash<\/p>\n
\r\nvar range = _props.get(n);\r\n#if flash\r\nuntyped _target[n] = _easing.ease( time, range.from, (range.to-range.from), _duration ) ;\r\n#else\r\nReflect.setProperty(_target, n, _easing.ease( time, range.from, (range.to-range.from), _duration ) );\r\n#end\r\n<\/pre>\n
So the question is more do I want to change the code for specific platforms?
\nFor now I am not going to focus on Flash to enhance it’s performance… there is little chance that I will be animating 1000+ objects.<\/p>\n
So I will be using it in my own projects and will run into problems that I will fix.
\nYou are welcome to use it as well and report bugs or other improvements.<\/p>\n
I’ve update the promotional website: check it here<\/a>.
\nYou can find the stress-test there, where I compare Go<\/strong> with Actuate<\/strong>.
\nIf you want to add your tweening library, add it here<\/a> in github.
\nDownload\/install instructions can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Happy tweening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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