Timeline AnimationΒΆ
When Object Types are added to a Room Type as an Object Instance, it is possible to animate the position of those instances in the room without using logic for simple animation requirements, such as following a path. In the Room Editor there is an animation timeline editor which represents time in frames. With this editor you can place "keyframes" at any point in time (up to 65535) which hold a position for the object being animated. At runtime, the Kwyll engine will interpolate between those keyframes over time. So you can place a keyframe at time 0 and one at time 50, and the position will change between the position stored on the first and the position stored on the second over 50 frames.
Timeline animation also provides another useful feature, it is possible to trigger logic at any point in the timeline, so you can have an animation that moves an object along a path, and at certain points in that path triggers logic on the object to perform a particular action, such as changing the sprite animation, or firing a projectile.