How do I tween text size? [SOLVED]

More specifically, I want the score to pop out quickly when it changes then back to normal size. I’ve tried tween size but found it just changes the text object’s size and not the font, which makes sense. Thanks for any suggestions.

You need to tween a value. And when the tween is running, set font size to Text.Tween.value

It will probably not work very well with Text object, I suggest using SpriteFont, you can change its scale smoothly.

You beat me to it Dop!

I was having fun making an example, based on one I saw you do last year - using lerp to have the score count up...

https://www.rieperts.com/games/forum/BumpScore.c3p

Tweening the z-elevation works well for scaling text and spritefont:

dropbox.com/s/9lgyx16nidbuiwg/scalingWithZ.c3p

nicely done! that works very well - I haven't done much with Z-elevation.

nicely done! that works very well - I haven't done much with Z-elevation.

Cheers :-) I've only recently started exploring it myself, lots of potential when combined with the new pin features.

Thanks for the recommendations, I was able to get this working.

BillyShears

I managed to compensate for the x/y drift, so z-elevation will scale from the object's origin regardless of position in the viewport - updated in the demo linked above.

BillyShears

I managed to compensate for the x/y drift, so z-elevation will scale from the object's origin regardless of position in the viewport - updated in the demo linked above.

Thanks, I will be trying this as well.

Brilliant posts, guys. Thank you for this nice workaround! There should really be an integrated way of doing this...

Awesome! Good to know, thank you! :)

Tweening the z-elevation works well for scaling text and spritefont:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9lgyx16nidbuiwg/scalingWithZ.c3p?dl=0

This can be done much easier now with the scene graph. Add text as a child to the sprite, and it will scale with the parent.

For any future travellers looking for an easy way to do this, I've attached an edited version of mekonbekon's events with dop2000's mentioned method (set text as a child of a sprite, and tweening the scale of that sprite)

As far as I know, scaling with 'scale' works for most things but doesn't for 9patch for example, so I scaled the 'size' instead.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n307Qi9nBGSg-gkGGOcqNNfTzjthp-bn/view?usp=sharing

PS. In my case, I wanted a number(text object) that represents the amount of collectibles collected to quickly increase in size/scale before returning back to normal.

Here's a screenshot of what I did: (sprite is invisible)