score change effect

Perhaps something with particle effects? For example, a bunch of sparks dropping off the score when it changes - quickly fading, of course, so it doesn't obstruct the rest of the game.

Old score turned into effect image, new score drawn above effect, old score grows/explodes out, then fades.
New score and old score scroll down like a car's analog odometer.
Old score text area grows to white or some kind of sparks or cloud or smoke, score is swapped, effect drops out.
Scale to a point to exit, scale back from a point with the new score
Scores slide in from one side to the other with a horizontal blinds or vertical blinds effect.
Page turn effect, also draw the score as little paper score card textures.
Any of the slide transitions found in your favorite meeting presentations software (such as PowerPoint.)

I've always like morphing number animations. You can to create a pre-rendered animation sequence for every possible transition. If you realize that you can play an animation either forward or backward then you can get the number of required animation sequences down to 45. It takes a bit of coding and graphics effort to get it to work properly, but once it's done it's very light-wieght in terms of rendering.

I've always like morphing number animations. You can to create a pre-rendered animation sequence for every possible transition. If you realize that you can play an animation either forward or backward then you can get the number of required animation sequences down to 45. It takes a bit of coding and graphics effort to get it to work properly, but once it's done it's very light-wieght in terms of rendering.

Khatharr, to do the actual morphing did you use your own code or did you use a 3rd party application? Which algorithm or application?

New score and old score scroll down like a car's analog odometer.

Liked this idea and tried it last night, but didn't like the way it looked because it clashed with the art style of the game. Screen shot here (although the score area has gotten bigger now)

It has an oldtimey look-and-feel. I think I'm going to try to do something that looks like the numbers are being painted on or at least colored in. The easiest way I can think to do this would be to do something like image processin morphologocal transformation of erosion to disappear the current number while simultaneously playing the frames of the new number eroding to nothing backwards. Wouldn't look like painting but would look like the number is getting colored in, maybe.

I've always like morphing number animations. You can to create a pre-rendered animation sequence for every possible transition. If you realize that you can play an animation either forward or backward then you can get the number of required animation sequences down to 45. It takes a bit of coding and graphics effort to get it to work properly, but once it's done it's very light-wieght in terms of rendering.

Khatharr, to do the actual morphing did you use your own code or did you use a 3rd party application? Which algorithm or application?

>New score and old score scroll down like a car's analog odometer.

Liked this idea and tried it last night, but didn't like the way it looked because it clashed with the art style of the game. Screen shot here (although the score area has gotten bigger now)

It has an oldtimey look-and-feel. I think I'm going to try to do something that looks like the numbers are being painted on or at least colored in. The easiest way I can think to do this would be to do something like image processin morphologocal transformation of erosion to disappear the current number while simultaneously playing the frames of the new number eroding to nothing backwards. Wouldn't look like painting but would look like the number is getting colored in, maybe.

I've always like morphing number animations. You can to create a pre-rendered animation sequence for every possible transition. If you realize that you can play an animation either forward or backward then you can get the number of required animation sequences down to 45. It takes a bit of coding and graphics effort to get it to work properly, but once it's done it's very light-wieght in terms of rendering.

Khatharr, to do the actual morphing did you use your own code or did you use a 3rd party application? Which algorithm or application?

There's some free morphing software floating around on cnet. As long as you can save the frames to images it shouldn't make much difference.