best way to tween sprite fonts?

hi, just wondering what the best way to tween sprite fonts.

I want my sprite font to size up and size down when you select it. sort of like one cycle of a Sine on Size.

since Sine doesn't effect the size of spritefont, I made it a value and adjust the scale, but it's difficult to deal with.. anyone know a better way to pop up your text with a tween?

not exactly like this.. but the whole word

jobel

just updated my sample with a sprite font...

the other problem with a sprite font is that the origin is the top left corner, so to make it bounce you also have to re-center it every tick.

just realized that spritefont does let you change the origin!

so download the file again and take a look.

EDIT: I also just re-read you original post and saw that you wanted a full sine cycle - mine only does half a cycle while the mouse is over the object and then finishes the cycle when the mouse is not over... to change my sample you would have to make the shrink tweens automatically start when the grow tweens finish.

AllanR excellent... I thought that the width/height of the sprite would just change the box not the text like Sine does for size... cool!

still though, triple nested events for a simple movement. This should really be a Behavior if I ever saw a need!

No I only wanted half of the Sine's cycle. Normally a Sine starts at zero and goes to 100 then goes down to -100 and back to 0 for a whole cycle. I only wanted the 0-100-0 bit. you got it right in your example.

jobel

for the spritefont, changing the width and height doesn't change the size of the text - I do that at the bottom:

every tick - set scale to self.Width/self.OriginalWidth

and I think that, plus the elastic tween results in the strange movement (pixel rounding might also play a role).

I tried a few other tween settings, and things like only tweening the height and leaving the width at a fixed setting, but nothing seemed to help very much.

I don't think tweening the scale of a spritefont is going to be a viable option. Tweening a sprite works much better...

there may be a way to paste the text of a spritefont into a canvas and load that into a sprite if you really need text that can change. otherwise, make sprites of the words you need.

or make sprites of individual letters and combine those to make the words you need (so, basically a custom sprite font).