Move a sprite from point A to point B?

Thank you very much gentlemen.

I was hoping to avoid the lerp route as my last project ended up 1000 events and it became an unmaintainable mess.

I just tried out rex moveTo pugin, and it works exactly as I need. I am very surprised that C2 have not added moveTo as a built in - its very very useful and saves a lot of work. I only hope it handles layer scaling.

Pathfinding looks interesting, but for balls moving a few cm vertically in a bingo game, pathfinding is probably overkill (assuming it will treat all my UI elements as non solids?)

Ill checkout liteTween also.

All great suggestions - thanks again.

Without using unofficial plugins, you can use the Timer object to lerp (linear interpolation) between 2 values smoothly.

For example;

Set timer to 1 second

every tick;

lerp(x1, x2, timer.CurrentTime / timer.Duration)

lerp(y1, y2, timer.CurrentTime / timer.Duration)

and because the timer resets to zero, you need to add;

OnTimer | set position to x2, y2

nutmix just use search, there's quite few posts about that

David Flook don't need timer for that

Every tick: lerp(self.x,targetX,dt)

But to be clear, it's not the same movement right?

Lerping self to target will create movement that starts fast and slows as it approaches the target. Is that correct?

shinkan

The timer probably provides the easiest way of controling the movement speed, while still remaining fps independant.

David Flook

Lerping that way will provide a linear movement, since dt is somehow constant, so no speed fluctuation.

nutmix

pathfinding is now a behaviour very new so try it out

it's official and not a third party plugin just look under behavious in an updated release

LiteTween offers basic to complex movement options.

Thank you very much gentlemen.

I was hoping to avoid the lerp route as my last project ended up 1000 events and it became an unmaintainable mess.

I just tried out rex moveTo pugin, and it works exactly as I need. I am very surprised that C2 have not added moveTo as a built in - its very very useful and saves a lot of work.

Pathfinding looks interesting, but for balls moving a few cm vertically in a bingo game, pathfinding is probably overkill (assuming it will treat all my UI elements as non solids?)

Ill checkout liteTween also.

All great suggestions - thanks again.