TweenMax
TweenMax extends the extremely lightweight, FAST TweenLite engine, adding many useful features like pause/resume, timeScale, AS3 Event listeners, reverse(), restart(), setDestination(), yoyo, loop, rounding, and the ability to jump to any point in the tween using the “progress” property. It also activates many extra plugins by default, making it extremely full-featured. Since TweenMax extends TweenLite, it can do ANYTHING TweenLite can do plus much more. Same syntax. There are plenty of other tweening engines out there to choose from, so here’s why you might want to consider TweenMax:
- SPEED – I’m not aware of any popular tweening engine with a similar feature set that’s as fast as TweenMax. See the speed comparisons yourself.
- Feature set – In addition to tweening ANY numeric property of ANY object, TweenMax can tween filters, hex colors, volume, tint, frames, saturation, contrast, hue, colorization, brightness, and even do bezier tweening, orientToBezier, pause/resume, reverse(), restart(), round values, jump to any point in the tween with the “progress” property, automatically rotate in the shortest direction, plus LOTS more. Overwrite management is an important consideration for a tweening engine as well which is another area where the GreenSock tweening platform shines. You have options for AUTO overwriting or you can manually define how each tween will handle overlapping tweens of the same object.
- Expandability – With its new plugin architecture, you can activate as many (or as few) features as your project requires. Or write your own plugin if you need a feature that’s unavailable. Minimize bloat, and maximize performance.
- Management features – TweenGroup makes it surprisingly simple to create complex sequences and groups of TweenLite/Max tweens that you can pause(), resume(), restart(), or reverse(). You can even tween a TweenGroup’s “progress” property to fastforward or rewind the entire group/sequence.
- Ease of use – Designers and Developers alike rave about how intuitive the GreenSock tweening platform is.
- Updates – Frequent updates and feature additions make the GreenSock tweening platform reliable and robust.
- AS2 and AS3 – Most other engines are only developed for AS2 or AS3 but not both.