How do I tween in java?

Question

I'm looking into making a 2d game in java and I've run into a problem with animation: How do I do tweening in java? Are there any libraries or maybe something I can find bindings for?

Understand that I do not want to simply move an image, I want to do morphing in a way that when making drawings for animation I can use a few keyframes to fill in the in between frames to generate the animation.

Answer 1

I was confused about what the poster meant.

"Tweening, in animation, the creation of intermediate frames between two key points, often added by an assistant animator or by computer."

You should be able to use alpha blending to achieve this. I am not sure if Java supports this directly except for built in components.

Its worth noting that animation in Java is typically draw from scratch, so if you want more frames, you draw more frames in your animation.

Answer 2

The timing framework is what I think you are looking for.

Also I can well recommend the book Filthy Rich Clients if you are it to writing rich apps.

An alternative is also the jgoodies:Animation library

Answer 3

Checkout :- JavaFX