VectorEffects

[yaRnMcDonuts]

Adds a simple but highly reusable AppState that runs effects directly on a valid Vector type object (being Vector2f, Vector3f, Vector4f, and ColorRGBA).

Useful for lights, particle effects, and essentially every Color or Vector based MaterialParamater that shaders and special effects rely on.

The most useful functionality of this system will be the ability to quickly deploy an EaseVectorEffect on colors to smoothly fade in/out things like lights and special effects, as to avoid the sudden and unsightly impact of removing something from the scene instantaneously in one single frame. This type of smooth fading is a very important aspect of polishing a game. And while the code to fade out colors can be simple, it is something that is used over and over again for a variety of different effects in a project and can sometimes requires some not-so-simple extra bells and whistles (like a delay timer or chaining), thus a versatile system like this becomes necessary to handle this in an efficient way.

In addition to smooth fading, this library also enables a variety of other compound loopable effects by using the SequencedVectorEffect class (such as flickering, pulsing, oscillating, etc), and I also will be adding a NoiseVectorEffect class soon as well.