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Kwik Multiplier Replacement for Snow Effect

One of the most popular types of animations is the particle effect, which is used to create effects such as snow, rain or fireworks. Kwik creates this type of effect with the Multiplier Replacement feature.

Toggle Background Music in Kwik 2

In this tutorial, we are going to attach two actions to one button. Then we will tell the button to remember which action it performed last and when clicked again to perform the other action. This is commonly called a toggle button.

Kwik 2 Game Physics

In this tutorial, we will learn how to use one of the most popular animation features in Kwik 2, game physics. We can use Kwik to create a real-to-life environment where the object on the page responds to aspects of this environment such as gravity, force and collisions.

Background Music in Kwik 2

In this tutorial, we will be finishing the cover page for our book app. We will add a background audio to our book app and create a button to toggle the background music on and off. We will also program the Info button to go directly to the information page of our app.

Kwik 2 Path Animation for a Movie Clip or Sprite

We have created a movie clip and sprite animation. Now we will see how to move the animated object across the page in our Kwik storybook app.

Kwik Book App Sequencing Actions

We will learn how to set a button to trigger a sequence of actions, animations and sound.

Kwik 2 and Texture Packer Sprite Sheets

How to create a Kwik 2 sprite sheet animation. You will combine and optimize the individual images of the animation, called sprites, into one file called a sprite sheet. This sprite sheet will be a smaller image file and will use less of your device's memory when loaded into your app.

Kwik Sprite Sheet Replacement Feature

We used Texture Packer for Kwik 2 to create a sprite sheet that we will use for our sprite sheet replacement layer. Now we are ready to add the sprite sheet to the layer on the page.

Kwik Movie Clip Replacement

Now we are ready to add the movie clip to a layer on the page of our Kwik storybook app. We will first add a new layer to the page and a placeholder image for the movie clip. When Kwik builds your app, it will replace the placeholder image with the movie clip.

Kwik Movie Clip PNG Sequence

In Kwik, a movie clip is a series of images that when played in sequence create an animation. Let's take a quick look at how these png images where created.

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