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Easing functions (tweens)

This example demonstrates different easing functions available in Defold.

Spine animation

This example shows Spine bone animation that blends when animation switches.

Cursor animation

This example shows how to set and animate the normalized cursor value.

Flipbook animation

This example shows how to use a flipbook animation in a sprite

Spinner animation

This example shows how a game object is rotated in discrete steps, matching the graphics of the progress spinner.

Tween animation

This example shows how to tween animate the position of a game object.

Tween animations chain

This example shows how to chain two tween animations of the position of a game object. In addition, the scale and tint is animated separately.

Euler Rotation

This example shows how to animate the rotation of a game object using the euler game object property.

Parent/child

This example shows how to child a game object to a parent.

Z-order

This example shows how to put one sprite in front of another

Message passing

This example shows how to communicate between two script components in two separate game objects.

Time-step

This example shows how to speed up or slow down animations in a collection proxy by changing the time step of the collection proxy.

Splash

This example shows how to use collection proxies to show a splash screen while loading a game menu.

Proxy

This example shows how to use collection proxies to load and unload collections.

Visual profiler

This example shows the on-screen profiler. It displays useful runtime information.

Physics debug

This example allows you to toggle physics debug visualization as well as changing the time step so the simulation runs at one tenth of the speed.

Shoot bullets

This example shows how to dynamically spawn bullet game objects using a factory component.

Dynamic factories

This example shows how to change the prototype game object used by a factory component.

Spawn game object

This example shows how to dynamically spawn game objects with a factory component.

Save and Load

This example shows how to save and load data using sys.save() and sys.load()

Get and set a gui font resource

This example shows how to get and set a font resource on a gui component.

GUI progress indicators

This example shows how to create various types of progress indicators

Slice-9

This example demonstrates slice-9 scaling gui box node.

Stencil

A GUI box node with "Clipping mode" set to "STENCIL". This makes it mask its child node (which is called "bunny").

Get and set a gui material resource

This example shows how to get and set a material resource on a gui component.

GUI color

This example shows how change the color of GUI nodes at run-time

Pointer over

A GUI box node with an image texture and a script that react when pointer over this node.

Drag

This example shows how to drag a GUI box node.

Load texture

This example shows how to load and set a dynamic texture on a gui box node.

Button

A GUI box node with an image texture and a script to make it act as a button.

Layouts

This example demonstrates the use of layouts.

Get and set a gui texture resource

This example shows how to get and set a texture resource on a gui component.

Health Bar

This example demonstrates how to add different health bars.

8 ways movement

A very simple 8 ways movement setup with a single game object and a script that listens to input and updates the game object position accordingly.

Down duration

Listens to input trigger "touch" and count mouse down duration in update method.

Mouse and touch events

Shows how to read mouse/touch movement and mouse/touch button state.

Text input

Listens to text input trigger "type" and modifies the game object label with the bunny's speech according to input. A "backspace" key trigger has also been added.

Sprite Vertex Color Attribute

This example shows how to set and animate a vertex attribute

Screenspace

This example shows how to create a custom material with two textures that blend together to create a pattern effect using screen space coordinates.

UV Gradient

This example shows how to apply a basic shader to a full screen quad.

Noise shader

This example shows how to use a noise function to generate clouds, smoke or similar effect using a shader.

Unlit

This example demonstrates how to create and apply an custom non-lit material to a 3D model.

Mesh

This example shows how to create a basic mesh component in the shape of a triangle.

Cubemap Reflection

This example shows how to use a cubemap to draw environment reflections on a model.

Look rotation

This example shows how to rotate a game object to look at the object in 3D space.

Look at

This example shows how to rotate a game object to look at the mouse cursor

Follow input

This example shows how to make a game object continuously follow the mouse.

Movement speed

This example shows how to move a game object with accelerating speed.

Move forward

This example shows how to move a game object in the direction it is rotated/facing.

Moving game object

This example shows how to move a game object.

Move to target

This example shows how to make a game object move to the position the user clicks.

Modifiers

This example shows particle effect modifiers. Modifiers are used to alter the path of emitted particles.

Particle effect example - fireworks

This example shows a fireworks effect made with particles.

Particle effect example - confetti

This example shows a simple particle effect to imitate confetti.

Particle effect

This example shows a simple particle effect. The particlefx component has all the values at default, except the image and animation used.

Particle effect example - fire and smoke

This example shows a simple particle effect for imitating fire and smoke.

Dynamic physics

This example shows a simple setup with dynamic physics objects.

Trigger

This example shows how a physics trigger is used to trigger an event. In this case the bunny sprite is disabled and enabled.

Pendulum physics

This example shows a simple setup with a static pivot and two dynamic weights - physics objects joined together with a joint of type "fixed" and "spring". The fixed joint can simulate a rope and spring joint a spring. The example shows how to create the joints and change the gravity to affect the pendulums.

Raycast

This example shows how to use physics raycasts to detect collisions along a straight line from a start point to an end point.

Kinematic physics

This example shows a simple setup with a kinematic physics objects. The difference between dynamic objects, simulated by the physics engine, and kinematic objects, that are user controlled, is clearly seen here.

Knockback

This example shows how to create a knockback effect when hit.

Hinge joint physics

This example shows a simple setup with a dynamic body physics object and two dynamic wheel physics object joined together with a joint of type "hinge". The hinge joint can simulate an axle or a pin on which other object is rotating in respect to the base. The example shows how to create, destroy and change properties of the joints.

Camera

This example shows how to use use a camera component and have it follow a game object. Click to toggle between following the game object and staying stationary.

Orbit Camera

This example demonstrates how to create script to control a 3D camera with the mouse. Scroll wheel is used to zoom in and out.

Screen to World

This example shows how to convert from screen to world cooridnates while using a camera.

Modify atlas

This example shows how to replace an image in an atlas

Create atlas

This example shows how to create an atlas with two images and use it on a sprite and in a gui

Music

This example shows how to play a piece of music, stored as an .OGG file, with a sound component. The sound component is set to "looping" causing the music to never, ever stop.

Panning

This example demonstrates how to pan a sound effect according to a GO's(game object) position on the screen.

Fade In-Out

This example shows how to make Fade-In and fade Fade-Out music.

Sprite tint

This example shows how tint a sprite at run-time

Flip

This example demonstrates flipping a sprite animation vertically and horizontally.

Bunnymark

This is a performance test for sprites

Sprite size

This example shows how to get the size of a sprite at run-time

Tilemap collisions

This example shows how to detect collisions on tilemaps

Get and set tiles

This example shows how to get and set tiles of a tilemap

Trigger timer example

This example shows how to create timer that triggers counting every 1s and can be triggered manually and asynchronously as a reaction to user input.

Repeating timer example

This example shows how to create timer that repeats endlessly every second

Cancel timer example

This example shows how to create timer and cancel it anytime, using built-in timer API.