decompose an image into squares and then animate each part with a tween

Question

Hye evetone,
Is it possible with a shader to decompose an image into several pieces and then animate them with tween?

Good day,

Comments

Animating with tween is not a valid idea, but perhaps You could animate it all using shader ? What Do You want to happen with partialized image ?

Answer 1

I'm no shader expert, but I don't think your request is possible - at least the animate them with a tween part. However, you could dynamically create a set of new images that are each some smaller portion of an original source image. Then, those new images could be assigned to some appropriate node (maybe a Sprite) which could then be animated via a tween.

The main thing you'd need is the ability to create a new image from a piece of an original image. That's what the Image.blit_rect(...) function does.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_image.html?highlight=image#class-image-method-blit-rect

So, you'd basically need to:

• Loop over the original image and extract small pieces into new Image objects via blit_rect().
• Assign each image to an appropriate node for animation (Sprite for instance)
• Build a tween to animate the resulting nodes as necessary

Comments

Thank you, I will try. But you get lost pretty quickly with the concepts of Texture, Imagre, TextureImage.