Rive Questions

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Rive looks amazing. https://rive.app/ We have been following it on Twitter for half a year or so. A few questions:

  1. Can we use Rive animations inside ZIM - we have brought Lottie animations inside ZIM... and may be able to do the same, assuming the animations are on the canvas. They are primarily animating interfaces and characters.

  2. Rive has a state machine panel that basically looks like it will play certain animations depending on input. In other words... a conditional - or a set of conditionals / case statement. Is there any more to it? Perhaps we should demonstrate how we can do that with code and do a comparison.

  3. I have seen some almost full out games made with it... and looked briefly at the code. It was a thousand lines. So... there seems to be a coding language for it... what is it? Anybody try?

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We are coming along with this. @capi421 - I can't seem to find an ES6 module for Rive JS runtime. I would rather not use a script tag going forward - any chance you can dig around a little and see if you can find it. If not, maybe you can install a node version and work your magic to make an E6 package. I could try... but I miss hanging out with you. Here is an example with the script tag https://zimjs.com/rive/animate.html

Note there is another example here with an ES6 module but that is for the canvas-advanced with wasm - so we are good for that one - but not the plain JS runtime.

I do have a question in to the Rive people here but I have a feeling they are going to tell me to use NPM or the script tag. Rive JS ES6 import URL?