【Trouble】The actor will disappear when actor'size interpolate to negative.

Weiyu

Hello everyone.I meet a big trouble.

The actor will disappear when actor'size interpolate to negative.

• My behaviors:
• interpolate "self.width" to "-100"

I don't know why it happened.
Please help me. Thank you.!

tatiang

It happened because an actor can't have a width of -100. What did you want to have happen when it's width reached negative one hundred?

Armelline

The interpolate kind of "overrides" the actor's width all the way up to -100. Once the interpolate finishes, the actor goes "Now my width is -100! Wait, I can't be negative width. The smallest width I can have is 0. Best set myself to 0 then."

You can get around this by just interpolating the width to 0, then back to 100. Same effect as far as the user is concerned.

RowdyPants

@Weiyu You're setting the width here - not just subtracting 100 from the width. So just set it to 0.

tatiang

@RowdyPants said:
@Weiyu You're setting the width here - not just subtracting 100 from the width. So just set it to 0.

Ah, I think you're right... she/he may not have understood how Interpolate works. Interpolate changes the value of an attribute from it's current value to a final value (in this case, -100) over a time period.

If you want to Interpolate from the actor's current width to a value one hundred less than that, you would do it this way:

Change Attribute self.NewWidth to self.Size.Width-100
Interpolate Attribute self.Size.Width to self.NewWidth

Weiyu

@Armelline @RowdyPants @tatiang

Thank you for your reply.
I'm not have understood how Interpolate works that I was wrong.Sorry.

I want actor to negative gradual elongation.

This is my original behaviors:

---

1. Constrain Attribute
   constrain "self.position.x" to "80+(self.size.width/2)"

2. Constrain Attribute
   constrain "self.size.width" to "game.time*64"

---

I was going to use "Constrain Attribute" to gradual elongation, but it only positive elongation. So I tried use Interpolate to do it, but It couldn't come up with negative elongation all along.

Twayne2

Interpolate self.width to self.width + 400. That should work.

Weiyu

@Twayne2 said:
Interpolate self.width to self.width + 400. That should work.

Thank you for your reply.
But that still can't work what I want to do.

I hope actor can negative elongation, not positive elongation.
I have no idea how to let actor negative elongation...

Just like this:

tatiang

Change the plus to a minus:

constrain "self.position.x" to "80-(self.size.width/2)"

Weiyu

@tatiang said:
Change the plus to a minus:

constrain "self.position.x" to "80-(self.size.width/2)"

This is amazing!!! The problem worried me for long time.
I can't believe my eyes, this is so easy.
I really appreciate it. Thank you for your help again.