Animations in GUI

[Vorion]

Hi,

is it possible to use Babylon Animations for GUI Controls? For example, I would need to animate the alpha value of a textblock, or move a container out of the display, while fading out.

And another question: Will you add more controls to the gui, like a progressbar (maybe with the ability to set an image as the bar, and a background image), or a container with tabs that you can switch? A grid container might also be useful.

Thank you

[brianzinn]

51 minutes ago, Vorion said:

For example, I would need to animate the alpha value of a textblock

https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#XCPP9Y#414

The grid container you can already make with stack panels.  I was asking also about more controls in this thread - you can find progress bars in the Playground:
http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/34274-more-gui-controls-ie-menu/

 

[GameMonetize]

Regarding new controls: please create issues on the repo to track them 

[Vorion]

Thanks, this does work, but what got me asking this question was IntelliJ (or Typescript Compiler) warning me, that Property 'animations' does not exist on type 'Control', so I haven't tried it until now. Is there a solution for this in typescript without using the any type for control elements, but a proper type?

And I will have a look at your link, maybe I don't even need any more new control, otherwise I will create a github issue

EDIT: Maybe my setup is wrong, because the playground does suggest animations as a property for a Gui.Control element.

[brianzinn]

You can do control['animations'] to get to property hopefully or cast to <any>.  I don't think Control does have an animations property, so warning looks correct.  It's used by BabylonJS to do the animation - it's a dynamic language trying to be typed.

[Vorion]

Thanks, I guess I will be using the cast to any then.