Adding tween targets to existing tween

[Doug]

Hi All

I'm writing a basic platformer which has prizes that I'd like to be undulating in scale.  The prizes are generated dynamically as the game progresses.  I am using the following tween for this, newly assigning the tween to each new prize as it is created:

this.tweens.add({
   targets: [scObjCreated],
   scaleX: '-=.2',
   scaleY: '-=.2',
   duration: 700,
   ease: 'Sine.easeInOut',
   repeat: -1,
   yoyo: true
});

However, this seems inefficient as I know that you can have one tween with multiple targets, so having loads of tweens that all do the same thing seems like poor practice.

I tried assigning the tween to a variable as follows:

this.MyTween = this.tweens.add({
   targets: [scObjCreated],
   scaleX: '-=.2',
   scaleY: '-=.2',
   duration: 700,
   ease: 'Sine.easeInOut',
   repeat: -1,
   yoyo: true
});

...and then pushing the newly created prize objects to the "targets" array as follows:

this.MyTween.targets.push(myNewObject);

However, this doesn't seem to do anything.

Is there a way to do this please?

Thank you!

[samid737]

You could re-target tweens by editing the tweenData directly:

http://jsfiddle.net/0rg0tcw8/4/

Adding targets should be possible too by fiddling with the tweenData, but I think you have to manually keep track of tween.totalData (the length of the tween data array) , since totalData is cached when adding A tween.

[samme]

http://labs.phaser.io/edit.html?src=src\tweens\dynamic end property.js

[Doug]

Thanks both.  @samme that's a nice example.  Is there a way to actually add tween targets on the fly though?  So create the tween and then add tween targets to that tween as the game progresses?

[samid737]

Added the wrong fiddle (updated above):

http://jsfiddle.net/0rg0tcw8/4/

[Doug]

Thanks.  This is more the kind of thing I was after, much appreciated. 

However, it seems be replacing the current target with the new one and then restarting rather than adding new targets to the existing tween.

I assume that you can't just push to the targets array without restarting?

[samme]

Oh, I think I see now.

If you're tweening in the same range (start–end) for all targets, you can just tween one dummy object and copy its values to the rest.

But personally I would just use multiple tweens. They're meant to be disposable. 

[Doug]

Thanks, that's great to know and much appreciated.