Scaling flying bird, making it smaller

[HarmHero]

Hi there! First post. I'm a 46 year old point-and-click fan, already from the 1980s with Sierra, and LucasArts. Now, I'm playing a bit with AGS to see if I can make my own game. It will take a while though

Anyway, I have this script with an animated object of a flying bird:

Code: ags

function room_FirstLoad()
{
cBird.SetView(2);
cBird.Move(325, 20, -1, eNoBlock, eAnywhere);
cBird.Animate(0, 5, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eForwards);
}

Works great! But now I want to make the bird appear smaller as it's flying towards the horizon. Is that possible?

Many thanks in advance!

[eri0o]

Scaling for Characters can be done mainly in two ways, by using manual scaling or by using a walkable area which has a specific scaling set (or a range).

Manual Scaling means using the cBird.Scaling directly after setting cBird.ManualScaling. This would mean you have to handle the scaling.

https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/Character.html#characterscaling

Depending on how the room actually is, graphically and where the bird passes, it may be possible to use the walkable area alternative.

A third option is to use the Tween module and then Tween the character scaling at the same time.

[Snarky]

A third option is to use the Tween module and then Tween the character scaling at the same time.

And in practice, this will almost certainly be the easiest and best solution.