Scale (from center point)

[Midhil457]

Currently, if you use the scale action, the object's scale is changed from the origin and there is no option to scale it from center. It is a really useful action and will make things way easier. What I currently do is use a tween with scale from center enabled with a low duration, which doesn't work most of the time

Description

Currently, if you scale an object, it scaled from the origin which is a bit frustrating as it changes the center of the object to somewhere else and break all other events that use the center point of an object. For example, I am setting the scale of an object to 0, and then using tween to smoothly scale it up from the center (scale from center enabled) for a transition, but as the scale action changed the center point, now the object is tweened with an offset.

Here is an example, instead of the PAUSED text being in the center top of the big circle, it gets offset because of the scale action

Events:

Solution suggested

Add an scale from center toggle just like the tween scale actions have

[beanmatt]

@Midhil457 Have you tried moving the origin point in the Object editor? This is what I did to have them scale from the center. If I need to reference that Object's "normal" X/Y position in other events, I just do Object.X() - (Object.Width()/2) or Object.Y() - Object.Height()/2.

[Midhil457]

Yes, that possible for sprites, but sadly its not possible to change the points for other object types

:) Thanks