[Request] Zoom Effect Script

<Pictre and Image Zooming>
<No necessary due date.>

Summary
<<Yes, this can be done CGI-style with enough pictures/panoramas and the eventing to make it happen. CGI, however, is a rather drawn-out and tedious process... thus, I figured there may be a better way to do simple effects such as zooming.

All this script does is take an image - most likely from the Pictures folder - then display it on screen and slowly zoom in, ideally over a user-defined period of time and towards a specific area (coordinate) on the picture. These features are unnecessary, but certainly add to the versatility. It's basically used for small cutscenes and snippits that would normally take between 50 and 200 individually-framed CGI images.>>

Features Desired

• Picture Zoom effect
• Set length of zoom by timer (Optional)
• Coordinated section of picture to zoom towards (Optional)

Mockups
<<Come now, I'm sure you all know what zooming is, yes?>>

Games its been in

• Most of them.

Did you search?
<<Yes.>>

I know you mention and discard eventing, but I would reconsider. When you use the Set Picture command there is already a zoom function - it wouldn't take very much eventing work to achieve this effect and you could do it with a single picture.

If it helps, I could also write a script that allows you to use a variable for the Zoom parameter of the picture, and that way you could do it with a single loop.

So you would essentially have to increase the zoom after every few Wait frames?

Yeah, and maybe a little moving of the picture to focus.