ActionScript 3.0 :: Project: Lava Lamp - Generate Some Randomly Shaped Blobs Of Liquid?
Dec 28, 2007
I am working on a project, and I'm planning to make a flash lava lamp.I am currently working on the "giving heat to the blobs" part of the project.Currently it looks something like this:Link
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In the next part of the project I will generate some randomly shaped blobs of liquid and place them in a movie.And then they will find out the amount of yellow inside to get the average "temperature" of the blob, and then the upwards acceleration of the blobs will be determined. So if the blob is relatively hot, it will flow upwards, if it's low, it will flow downwards. As it gets higher, the blob will lose some heat. Touching another blob will exchange some heat and other lava-lamp'ish stuff will happen.Do you think I should do it with pixels? (like above) or do you think I should use "normal flash stuff" ? (By that I mean using movieclips, etc)Is my method of displaying "heat" good? Or could I use another way?
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