Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hi! In today's tutorial I'll how you how to animate a lever in Game Maker Studio 2.3. We'll do this by adjusting the image_angle along an Animation Curve, and I'll also show you how to do the same curve using the curves library feature from Game Maker Studio 2.3.2

For today's animation principle I'll cover follow through. When item move fast, and have momentum, they tend to move past their target and reset. We apply that to our lever to give it a more natural feel

0:00 Intro
1:47 Setup Lever
5:59 Animation Curve
6:55 GMS 2.3.2
7:45 Implement Animation
12:51 Tweaks
14:14 Playlist
14:50 Animation Principle

Starting Project
github.com/ArendPeter/CastleGame/tree/a55e6bdb3bfe0f237faa4987f5327a8e800bafc3

Ending Project
github.com/ArendPeter/CastleGame/tree/4565f2611307a397d7bdfd27328a1c0d4aee0ac5

Triggers Tutorial
youtube.com/watch?v=Sik3IA0FS4o&list=PLywxFF6tce1_F4gkeyWZu2jqHko5AxBJ-

Animation Curves Tutorial
youtube.com/watch?v=V-4FeNFFC7M

StepTowards Script
gist.github.com/ArendPeter/42f1ba6971d21b973cd50127a4ea16c9

sLeverParts Sprite (hint: just drag the image from your file manager, into the editor ;) )
mediafire.com/file/647qzse27uudi00/sLeverParts_strip3.png/file

Animation Curves Playlist
youtube.com/watch?v=V-4FeNFFC7M&list=PLywxFF6tce1-Y8teVEtN_W9zXJlhGlkH2

Animation Principle: Follow Through
youtube.com/watch?v=4OxphYV8W3E&list=PL-bOh8btec4CXd2ya1NmSKpi92U_l6ZJd

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