Re: FLASH: Help me understand...

[David Gary]

Brian Boyd wrote:


> Tons of ideas and I am trying to figure out what I can and cannot do.

>

> I decided to try something to help me understand flash's behavior as far as

> symbols go.

>

> I decided to attempt rain.  I am hoping you guys might describe how you

> would go about it.


Hiya Brian,


I might be able to help, because I created a rain scene for our up and coming

corporate site.


I look at FLash from a paradigm view or as a modeler. Thie first thing I did was

make

my rain fall. All it consisted of was one drop and then an animated circle ring.


this animated symbol was dragged onto a MC's(Movie Clip) timeline several times

on serveral layers. I then "scaled" each animated symbol for distance and

perspective and even tweened alpha for lighting effects. Note: I used rings

because my drops where hitting water. You could use a little splatter animation

if its hitting solid ground. Also I didnt have the drops to concentrate in the

animation. IOWs, I only had 2 or 3 drops falling at once to cut down on

processor occupancy. Rain is fairly simply in FLash. Just remember. ONE

animation of the drop and it's splatter dragged onto a Movie CLip's timeline,

several times, scaled and moved into different locations is probably the easiest

and most effecient way.


HTH,


-DG-




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