iTween Visual Editor
Please visit the main page for the visual editor as that is the only spot kept up to date.
Update: Fixed! Well, worked around, which is just as good. There is a Unity bug that is causing lots of problems right now. Until this is fixed I would recommend not using the visual editor.
If you’ve been around the Unity world you may have run into the iTween library. It’s a system for animating various thing in your scene, from positions to rotations to scales to color, and even sound volume! It’s a pretty nifty library but I felt it was missing some usability. For example, in a scene if all I want to use iTween for is to have an object float across my screen repeatedly, I’d need to create a whole class just for one line of code such as this:
iTween.MoveTo(gameObject,{"x":10,"time":4,"looptype":"loop"});
On a one-off basis this wouldn’t be bad, but what if you were making a game where you had lots of levels and each one had some subtly different values for the movement pattern of the objects in it. Well, you’d be writing a lot of tiny throwaway classes which really clutters up your project and is just plain annoying. So I got to thinking about how you could write a script you attached to your GameObject that could store the data for a tween and then activate the tween when the scene starts (or wait until it’s activated programmatically). The result is the iTween Visual Editor which can make even fairly complex tweens quite simple. Here is a tween that is moving the GameObject to the camera’s Transform while looking at position (10,0,0 and using an inOutCubic easing type and finally using a pingPong loop type.
Usage is pretty simple. Just attach an iTweenEvent component to the GameObject you want to tween (you can also use the Component/iTween/iTweenEvent menu item). Then choose the type of tween you want and the options for that tween. Click play to see your tween in action.
You can get the editor as a Unity Package file here.
If you’re interested in the source code, the repository lives here.
NOTE: This only works with Unity 3.0 and later, it will not compile under Unity 2.6.
Please submit any bug reports or suggestions to david (at) koontzfamily (dot) org
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awesome work!!! thank you for sharing. iTween rocks, and even more so thanks to your great addition here!
Awesome indeed! I love it!
Thanks for sharing, it’s greatly appreciated.
Nice job man!
Thanks for sharing!
wow, very nice! thanks
Excellent, that’ll prevent me from adding a TON of mini-scripts for every tiny little itween-prone event in the game. Thanks a bunch! 🙂
Just a little drawback, it won’t work in Unity 2.6 due to the lack of the System.Linq library 😦
Yep, it’s Unity 3 only. If you really needed it on 2.6 you could rewrite the part that’s using Linq, it’s nothing critical.
Thats Ace!
Thanks For sharing it!
A 1000 thanks for the amazing job!
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After few compil all value from editor component was lost and unity speak about file missing !!!!!
Spoke, I’ve updated the post to inform users of this. There is a bug in Unity that is causing problems here. You can follow any updates on this problem at this thread: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/65217-iTween-Visual-Editor
Ok thanks for this info dkoontz.
Hi again me 🙂
a little error for me here:
iTween.MoveTo(gameObject,{“x”:10,”time”:4,”looptype”,”loop”});
I think you would said this :
iTween.MoveTo(gameObject,{“x”:10,”time”:4,”looptype”:”loop”});
sorry but now I need to test without your nice tool 😦
Spoke: yes that was a typo, thanks for pointing it out.
Great Job! Thanks! and I hope that bug gets fixed soon.
~K
Ok, new version is out which works around the bug. Go get it!
Seems like it wants to work at times, and then most times I get a message that says “Getting Control x’s position in a group with only x controls when doing Repaint.” There after, I get a “null reference exception on every other event.”
When the event is assigned to the game object as a component, I was unable to name the event. It seems that the name field won’t respond.
Sometimes every text field ( Name,delay), chooses to not respond and then spits back that “null reference exception.
I think you are getting closer to fixing all the bugs though. Good Luck. And we really appreciate the hustle in getting this thing out to the community.
After updating to the new version (please delete all the old files and re-import the Unity package), did you remove the iTweenEvent from your GameObject and re-add it? There might be some old cruft lying around on the old object. I’ll do more testing.
Okay I’ll double check for any old files. And yes I tried the re-add , and still got some of the same messages …some of the times.
Oh..I also was wandering wether or not I need a newer version of iTween? The ;last version I have is 2.0 I got about 1.5 month ago.. has Itween updated in the last about 45days?
You don’t need a bleeding edge version of iTween, any 2.x version should be fine.
Also, I was able to reproduce an error message when adding a new iTweenEvent to a GameObject, but it only comes up once and doesn’t effect anything. Are your tween settings actually getting wiped out still?
No, the tween setters are fine, and the tweens actually work. I just see those error messages(which makes one concerned), but the values don’t make any difference.
For example a simple MoveTo on a basic cube seems to move the same distance weather i set it to 30 or 2, it makes no difference in the values, it just moves to the same distance.
So it seems that the tween(ness) part is working just fine. The values are not as accurate as I would expect , and I haven’t yet called the tweens from other scripts such as “OnTriggerEnter or OnMouseDown”. I wanted to make sure that the Plugin is stable enough before i do that.
How’s it going on your end ? Has any one else come across these errors or am i a special case?
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~K
Crashes on me whenever i try to play 😦
Could you give me more info? What platform, what tween, maybe the stacktrace? Please email that info to david (at) koontzfamily (dot) org.
Unity just released 3.1 fyi.
Hey,
I was wondering if their is any way to get the code that it generates to edit that directly? Or is that not possible?
Thanks!
Justin W.
There’s no code generation going on. What happens is the values you set in the editor get stuffed into a Dictionary and serialized, then you you start the app, those values are deserialized, the appropriate iTween method (MoveTo, RotateBy, etc.) is called and those values are passed in as the HashTable parameter that all iTween methods take.
Oh okay, I think I understand… Thanks for the clarification =).
GREAT JOB.
Awsome work man. thanks for sharing.
You and itween rocks…
how can i get a particular node value………… i have a path for a object , i like to turn the object when the object reached a particular node in my node
The path system is not mine, I just integrated support for the visual editor and the paths it generates. For help with paths I’d suggest you visit some of the support areas for regular iTween.
I seem to be getting a compile error when I use both itween visual editor and itween visual path editor. Assets/iTweenEditor/Editor/iTweenPathEditor.cs(10,9): error CS0433: The imported type `iTweenPath’ is defined multiple times
Obviously itween.cs is in there too many times but the tab under Components doesn’t show up???
Thanks in advance.
The iTween visual editor includes a copy of the path editor, so if you import the path editor separately you’ll get 2 copies. Just delete either the standalone copy of the path editor, or the one that came with the visual editor.
very cool tool ! 🙂 thanks for offering it!
I am currently trying to create a Automatic door and unfortunately iTween does not show up in Component, which means I do not have the iTween Visual Editor. 😦 Please Oh please help
I would like the tween I created to be inactive at start and then via script activate it manually. I read that this is possible, I just don´t know how?
Could someone tell me the code to start the tween manually?
The iTweenEvent component has a GetEvent method to find a particular event and a Play method to start the iTween running.
how do you trigger a iTween Visual Editor event with code ?
Slightly older post but here is an example: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/65217-iTween-Visual-Editor?p=420743&viewfull=1#post420743
The short answer is iTweenEvent.GetEvent(gameObject, “name of your tween”).Play();