Animation Controllers

Everything you animate in Awakening is handled by a controller. Controllers handles the storage and interpolation of all animated values. Once you click the "Set Key" button in the Animation Panel to create a key, Awakening will assign controllers for every animation parameter. These controllers are listed in the Controller Box. Different data type parameter has different controller type. Below is a table of controllers in Awakening:

Complex Controllers have Sub-Controllers, you can change Sub-Controllers respectively. For example, you can assign a "Wave" float controller to "A(transparence)" element of color to produce swing between appear and disappear.

Interpolation Class Illustration:

Step
Linear
Spline
Spline (continuous)
Waveform
Noise
Perlin Noise

Horizontal axis is time, and vertical axis is value.

Amplifiers of Controller

Amplifier is a mechanism for amplifying controller input/output data. Every controller have two amplifiers: Time Amp and Value Amp. To understand amplifiers, let us first realize how controllers work in animation. A segment of animation consists of multiple frames, every frames have a time - called frame time. When the animation system renders a certain frame, it passes the frame time to the controller for every animated parameter, then the controller returns animation parameter values; so the animation system uses the input value to change object states, like position, color, etc. See illustration:

A amplifier include three variables: PreOffset, Zoom, PostOffset. The amplifying formula is: Output = ( Input + PreOffset ) X Zoom + PostOffset .