My 2D game has a simple snow effect, but I would like to improve the framerate performance during this effect.I animate 500 sprites with a particle system, using a white 2x2 .gif image.I animate to whole pixel values only.I turn off smoothing and image compression.I don't rotate or scale.No calculations, just modifying the sprite's x values every frame.I've heard some people discuss bitmap caching.
View 0 RepliesI'd like to put a mask over a snow animation like the one found here: [URL]
However, if I place a simple shape mask above the "snow" layer, it doesn't mask the snow below.
how I might be able to mask the "snow" layer?
I'm a bit new to AS2 and have followed the tutorial for the Snow Animation [URL].. I'm wanting the snow to stop after a few seconds and fade out. Anyone know how to do this off hand? I'm a little stumped.
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I have used AS3 to create falling snow in an animation. However, once i get to a certain frame I would like the snow to be completely removed from the stage. I have tried 'removeChild' as well as slicing the array, but nothing seems to work. The code I have used to create the falling snow is as follows:
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// first make an array to put all our snowflakes in
var snowFlakes : Array = new Array();
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I'm trying to create a particular effect using the Kirupa tutorial for Flash Snow 3.0.The size of the stage I'm working with is 800x600, but I need the animation to only happen in the center of the stage, in an area approximately 400x400. I've tried masking to no effect I'm sure it's something that I just need to enter in the script,
View 1 RepliesI created bubbles using the snow 3.0 tutorial from here at kirupa. I slightly altered the code so it would be for bubbles on a canvas of 800x500.The problem with the tutorial is that it is for snow moving downward on the y axis. for bubbles in the water, I need them going upward.which part of the code I need to alter so the bubbles will move up and not down? Also, I need the life of the bubble to last the length of the canvas.
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init = function () {
width = 800;
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I've been experimenting with this and I haven't been able to come up with an adequate solution. Hoping one of you Mathletes can point me in the right direction. I'm building a Snow Globe in ActionScript 3 and I need to come up with a set of equations to control two level of snowflakes - one level random, and the other interactive where a user can click on them.For the random snow, I need to have it create certain number of random x/y positions at the bottom of the globe, which is a circle with a radius of around 300. Then when the shake action occurs, They should randomly float toward the top, then fall back to a random position at the bottom of the circle again.
For the interactive snow, I need it to randomly layout, but I don't want flakes to overlap so that its easier to interact with them.
at the end of the scene I want the snow to stop falling. I can't work out how to end this script. I want to reuse the snow later, but I have a scene set inside next.How do I start/finish this script?
View 4 RepliesIs there some ways to develop a SEO friendly flash site? I read in an article that flash sites are not SEO friendly one.
View 2 RepliesI'm loading in a smil file (follows the xml format) and it won't let me select properties via name (eg. xml.body) instead I can only access the data by xml.child(0).I've tried xml.child('body'), but still nothing. Anyone know a quick workaround? I would like to be able to access xml.head.(@name=='rtmpPlaybackbase') and the XMLList xml.body.switch.video.[code]
View 1 RepliesSo I'm making a drawing app that uses flash. I want to be able to export my drawing into an illustrator friendly format.
I'm thinking I will need to record the shapes drawn with a "history" and then export those either via text/xml/bytearray.
I created a scrolling text box loading an external file, and I added 2 buttons with this code:
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The problem with this code is that you have to click a lot to see the text, because it goes line by line.how to edit this code to make it easier for user to scroll down and up?
I'm loading in a smil file (follows the xml format) and it won't let me select properties via name (eg. xml.body) instead I can only access the data by xml.child(0). I've tried xml.child('body'), but still nothing. Anyone know a quick workaround? I would like to be able to access xml.head.(@name=='rtmpPlaybackbase') and the XMLList xml.body.switch.video
The smil xml is this:
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<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/Language">
<head>
<meta name="title" content="myStream"/>
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I know how to load external text files in AS3 but I want the user to be able to do it from within my excited swf file. The obvious way to do this is to load the text file using a string from a dynamic text field (e.g: "myfile/myTextFeild.txt") but i want it to be more user friendly.If you click file open in Microsoft word, for example, you get the user friendly open box where you can find the file you want to load by browsing through your hard-drive.
View 1 RepliesI've made a Flash site and I want it to be optimized for search engine.What I need is, for every query on Google for this organization name I want respective Flash page to be displayed.
View 1 RepliesWe're currently developing a flex web app and our build situation is far from ideal. At present we're (as in individual developers) just building using FlashBuilder and deploying manually. The programmers are currently screaming bloody murder for two reasons, though:The lack of CI is like going back to the stone ageWe don't much care for FlashBuilder(Note: We're only using FlashBuilder because it was the easiest way to set up a flex project in conjunction with Away3d and get it building / rendering correctly -- it's a stopgap solution).As a predominately .NET development shop, we're used to doing continuous integration as well as continuous deployment. Ideally, we'd like to get something comparable to this for our flash projects without tying ourselves to a particular IDE.
Requirements:
The build process must be:
.. runnable via the commandline
.. runnable on both developer and CI build machines (and certainly not requiring an IDE!)
.. preferably as IDE-independent as possible (pragmatism will kick in though; if this causes a lot of friction we'll just pick one).
.. able to run on Windows (we develop using Windows)
We don't mind a touch of duplication or a few manual steps (e.g. tarting up the build scripts if we add a new project via an IDE, or generating one configuration from another if tools exist), but the less duplication / maintenance required the better.
i need a basic form that maybe has 4 variables and then once submitted will write to an xml file.
i understand how to display the xml, but i need a client friendly form to write to it.
I have a project that I'm working on where I want to allow a user to control some text formatting for a Flash interactive via external XML. They want to create links and bold text in paragraphs and such.Create dynamic text field on the stageGo to library, create font symbol for HelveticaNeue fontSet dynamic text field on stage to font symbol for Helvetica Neue Turn on embedding for dynamic text fieldSet HTML formatting to true on dynamic text fieldWrite out ActionScript for filling dynamic text field e.g. <b>THIS FIELD:</b> + someVariableFromXMLPublish movieBold text disappears.What am I doing wrong here? I need to make sure font symbols are present and dynamic text fields are set to embedded fonts to ensure PC/Mac font display for dynamic content for oddball non-standard fonts.Why doesn't this work? When I create the font symbol and set it to bold, STILL doesn't work.
View 7 RepliesI have been googling for hours and have not yet found a solution to this problem.currently, I retrive the data from the twitter xml fileeverything works fine, my date format shows this: Fri Aug 12 03:25:40 +0000 2011But I want it to show this: 17 days agohere's my flash as3 code:
var myXMLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
//myXMLLoader.load(new URLRequest("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=arunshourie"));
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I have a movieclip that shows an animation onRollOver and an animation on RollOut but onRelease the animation enlarge itselfs but now when I'll roll out when the animation isn't open (so i didn't release) the animation plays the animation for the minimizing of the animation. Here's my code (I know its a bit amateuristic but I'm not a programmer )
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i am experiencing a strange and unpleasant situation.I am using CS3 and upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 last night, along downloading the latest Flash Player for browsers.
Problem is that now all of my text block arent displaying the same line height that before i updated?????
I compared the same exact SWF made under Tiger and those made under Snow Leopard and the two arent identical, lines are misaligned regarding line height!
I have learn from this web-site how to do a snow effect.but I don't know to change te position of the movie on my page ???
View 2 RepliesGot the particle snowfall going fine, but the wind factor - which changes the ._x according to the slider's value - pretty much ruins the initial random() effect of the snowfall. [When taken to a high or low wind factor, then back to 0%, the particles get stringy-looking and too regular.]Tried tweaking the wind variable with a bit of randomness [// in the code] - which solved the above problem, but now the harsher snowfall is a bit too 'wiggly'. How can I maintain the randomness of a soft snowfall without screwing up the wind effect?
View 5 Replies[URL]I would like to know how I can get the snow to move up instead of down. I've tried to put a "-" i = "-"1+Math.random()*4; there but it doesn't loop and the snow balls doesn't stop just keeps going.
View 5 RepliesI have enjoyed the Snow 3.0 code located here on this site:[URL].. It works beautifully. However, I am wondering how I can get the snow to end at a certain frame number. I currently have it starting in frame 25. How could I get it stop in frame 150? I have tried several things and it just keeps snowing throughout the whole movie..
View 1 RepliesHas anyone tried the Snow 3.0 tutorial using Flash CS4? I followed all the steps and can't seem to get it work?
View 6 Repliestrying -with no success - to make snow flakes to go up, instead of falling, using Snow 3.0
View 2 RepliesI did the excellent tutorial on Falling Snow for Flash CS4/AS3 on this website.I now want to add further graphics and animations to the snow for an e-card I'm creating.I have tried to add to the timeline and animate a logo, but then the snow just flashes on and off in one piece. Is there a way I can make the snow fall, say, halfway through my animation so I can add other things to it?
View 3 RepliesI am using Flash CS5, Actionscript 3.0 and trying to get the Falling snow 3.0 to work. Is it me or can other of you get this tutorial to work.
View 1 RepliesI have just finished the falling snow tutorial which works perfectly. However I am unable to make it stop once it reaches a certain frame.
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