Doubts about Opacity, Fading and Panoramics.

I?ve some questions I hope somebody can help me with them :)

1.

Is it possible to define the Opacity of a layer with a slow fade in/out effect?

Example. Before starting the game, the screen?s pitch-black and then slowly goes away until it reaches 0% opacity.

2.

Is it possible to do a Panoramic (pan)? If so how do we control the velocity/speed of the pan?

Example. Before the game starts, the screen (like camera effect) is set on the end of the level and then is shows the all level so the player can see what to expect.

Thanks a million :)

You can check out the capx of my C2 comp entry there are some examples of fadein/fadeout implementation.

If someone feels like making a simpler capx only for this, go ahead, this might end useful.

For your question about the pan a bit of the answer is there.

Thanks Kyatric, you're a saviour :D

as for the pan, i implemented something like that into a demo

its really cool way of showing level like you said

demo

its implemented like this (where scrollstart is a sprite)

scrollstart.X < 2000 | scrollstart.X+8 + set globalvar scroll=1

system globalvar scroll=1 |

system scroll to

lerp(scrollx, scrollstart.X, 1*dt)

lerp(scrolly, scrollstart.Y, 1*dt)

after that you can set globalvar scroll to 0 and scroll to player instead

Vtrix, that's what I imagining :)

Thank you a lot =)

vtrix, but if the player has the behavior "scroll to" it won't to, right?

Kyatric

I'm sorry, but in all that complex code you created for space jinx I really couldn't figure where's the fade out or how to do it.

Can you explain in "noob language"?

thanks

I'm aware it is complex, but take the time to read the comments, I explained the logic.

In the event sheet "StoryIntroSheet" you have a group sFadeOut, in "LevelGeneralSheet" you have the groups FadeIn and FadeOut.

They are commented.

yeps :)

I've seen them now, gonna read. Thanks.