Hey guys, I'm experimenting with drawing things on the canvas.
To Draw a single frame seems pretty fast, what I'd like to know is if anyone's tried animation with a canvas and if it seems to generally perform pretty well or if it ends up killing performance on most devices.
As a test I drew my own semi-transparent buttons on a gradient background:
What I mean by animation is something like you might see in a fancy futuristic game menu.The screen shows up, buttons move from left to right into their places, each button after the other from top to bottom. You tap on a button, I make it flash, all other buttons slide left out of view again, the button that was clicked moves to the top and then extended all the way to the right to become a title of the current menu.
During the whole process, a background is scrolling slowly, maybe 2 gradients moving in opposite directions, semi transparent so they blend as they move.
I'm aiming for around ~60fps.
Just wondering what your experiences were in regards to doing lots of stuff at once, because I looked at OpenGL and 5 minutes later my brain hurts :sign0161: (could take forever to get good), and this is from someone familiar with vertecies, surfaces, cameras, lighting, shading, bump mapping, did some 3d modeling etc... just never coded it before.
To Draw a single frame seems pretty fast, what I'd like to know is if anyone's tried animation with a canvas and if it seems to generally perform pretty well or if it ends up killing performance on most devices.
As a test I drew my own semi-transparent buttons on a gradient background:
What I mean by animation is something like you might see in a fancy futuristic game menu.The screen shows up, buttons move from left to right into their places, each button after the other from top to bottom. You tap on a button, I make it flash, all other buttons slide left out of view again, the button that was clicked moves to the top and then extended all the way to the right to become a title of the current menu.
During the whole process, a background is scrolling slowly, maybe 2 gradients moving in opposite directions, semi transparent so they blend as they move.
I'm aiming for around ~60fps.
Just wondering what your experiences were in regards to doing lots of stuff at once, because I looked at OpenGL and 5 minutes later my brain hurts :sign0161: (could take forever to get good), and this is from someone familiar with vertecies, surfaces, cameras, lighting, shading, bump mapping, did some 3d modeling etc... just never coded it before.
