Comments on: A review of popular tweening library (UPDATED)

By: Anthony Picciano

Anthony Picciano — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:37:07 +0000

Just a quick note about Tweener…

We did a comparison of the available libraries, and for our purposes, we decided to use Tweener for implementing Adobe’s RIA interactive piece. It has lot more functionality than you first expect once you start playing with it, and the performance was very good. It handled moving and resizing a large number of UI elements, including bitmap and vector-based graphics simultaneously.

Check it out: http://www.adobe.com/resources/business/rich_internet_apps/

A new version with even better performance (by means of dynamic bitmap generation, rather than the static images used today) and more videos will be out in the next couple weeks.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:30:17 +0000

Peer pressure is a bitch, innit ;)

By: Mims Wright

Mims Wright — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:33:28 +0000

OK! By popular demand, I’ll review tween lite. Stay tuned for updates.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:12:46 +0000

You left out the best of them all, which is indeed TweenLite.

By: Matt Przybylski

Matt Przybylski — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:26:25 +0000

I definitely think you missed a fundamental tweening engine in TweenLite/TweenMax. Out of the ones you reported, TweenLite is one of (if not arguably) the best engine available right now in terms of speed and file size. Nice work nonetheless.

I also posted something similar to this on my blog recently:

http://evolve.reintroducing.com/2008/04/06/as2/getting-started-with-scripted-tweening/

By: Noah Aronsson-Brown

Noah Aronsson-Brown — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:19:57 +0000

What about TweenLite plus its Filter/Max flavours?

I’ve been using them a lot recently as their speed (demostrably proved with Moses benchmark tool) is really impressive, especially considering what a small k footprint they leave.

I’d definitely check them out if you want to be reasonably comprehensive. Plus they may even give you information that could help KS become the best as3 tween engine!

Shame that papervision poke gig never got off the ground…

Hope you’re well mate!