Outline process for adding new glyph stroke animations?

[lancejpollard]

Is it possible to add animations for arbitrary glyphs (Latin script, Tibetan script, etc.)?

If so, how do you go about adding them, what is the exact process? I would like to teach people how to add their own glyph animations if it's easy enough.

Thanks!

[chanind]

The problem is that latin characters loop back on themselves, and the way HanziWriter does animations currently it can't really handle this. I'm not sure about Tibetan but probably similar, most scripts have this property. Mandarin strokes are one of the few where no stroke ever loops back on itself. We'd have to change the way strokes are drawn to make this work, potentially doing something like break up the stroke into chunks that get animated sort of at the same time so the overlapping portion doesn't leak out during animation.

[lancejpollard]

Oh ok, how much work is that? Can you explain roughly how you solved this for Mandarin characters for now? Maybe I could think about how to do this in the general case as well.

Thanks.