The Gillcup Tutorial

Contents:

• The First Steps: Drawing a Rectangle
  • Running Code
  • Displaying Things
  • Scene Trees
  • Color
  • Position and Scale
  • Rotation and Opacity
  • A Note on Aspect Ratio
  • This Lesson’s Code
• The Gillcup Magic: Animations
  • Revive the Rectangle
  • Animations
  • Actions and Effects
  • Chaining Effects and Actions
  • The Rainbow Cycle
  • Infinite Effects
  • What Was Before Us
  • Dynamic Attributes
  • Effects Can Be Animated
  • Dummy effects
• What needs to be written
  • Scene Tree Dumps
  • Easing
  • Sprites
  • Text
  • Alpha Layers and Pixelization
  • The Demo