[news.eclipse.gef3d] Re: interpolated animation

[Kristian Duske <kristian.duske@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Miles,

> OK, this is waaay out on the "some day would be nice" frontier, but I'm 
> wondering if there is any way to get animation for figures that have 
> moved between refreshes, ala GEF. (Actyually, I haven't had great 
> success getting this to work there anyway.) That is, if you place a 
> figure at X[1],Y[1],Z[1] and then move that figure to X1[4],Y1[1],Z1[1] 
> to have the intermediate step(s) X1[2],Y1[1],Z1[1], X1[3],Y1[1],Z1[1] 
> rendered at some time slice period. (Of course one could do it manually 
> but that's not practical for all cases.)

This is on my mental to do list, but it has pretty low priority right 
now. We will get to animations sooner or later because we will need 
this for some nice GUI enhancements, but if we do this, we should get 
it right. That means it should be applicable to all kinds of figure 
changes (moving, resizing, rotating, ...) and it should be non-invasive 
so that it can be applied to all kinds of figures, 2D and 3D.

So yeah, we will do this, but there are other GEF3D shortcomings that 
are much more important to fix right now, so this is not going to 
happen in the near future - sorry!

Best regards
Kristian