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Snow Effect With Wind
Level: Experienced Software:
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1. Make a new 300×200 flash document, and set its Background colour to something else than plain white (I used #CCCCCC here)
2. Let's start by adding this Action Script in the first Layer, First Frame:
| speed1 = .9;
mw =300; //Movie Width mh = 200; //Movie Height snowint =50 //the larger the interval is, lesser it's going to snow //++++++++++++++++++++++++++ function randRange(min, max) { var randomNum = Math.round(Math.random()*(max-min))+min; return randomNum; } setInterval(CursorMovement, 40); function CursorMovement() { mc._x = speed1*(mc._x-_xmouse)+_xmouse; interval = (mc._x/mw*6); } function snow() { i++; duplicateMovieClip(snowflake, ["snowflake"+i], i); } setInterval(snow, snowint); |
3. Now go to Insert -> New Symbol -> Movie Clip, Name it SnowFlake.
Select the Oval tool, and make sure that the Stroke Colour is set to No Color, and that the Fill Colour is set to White:
Now with the Oval tool you selected, draw a circle while pressing SHIFT (to make it a perfect circle), and make sure you center it with the align tool.
4. Now go back to the main stage/Scene 1:
Drag&Drop, the movie clip SnowFlake you just made and give it: snowflake as its istance name.
And, attach this Action Script to the movie clip SnowFlake you just Drag&Dropped
| onClipEvent (load) {
if (this._name == "snowflake") { _parent.i = 0; } this._alpha = _parent.randRange(80, 100); //Alpha Transparency of snowflake this._width = _parent.randRange(5, 10); //Snowflakes' width this._height = this._width; //Keep round shaped snowflakes this._x = _parent.randRange(-100, _parent.mw+100); this._y = _parent.randRange(0, -50); speed = _parent.randRange(2, 5); //Folling speed. } //+++++++ onClipEvent (enterFrame) { this._y += speed; this._x += _parent.interval-3; if (this._y>_parent.mh+20) { this.removeMovieClip(); } } |
5. Go to Insert -> New Symbol -> Movie Clip, Name it MC.
Keep it blank, and go back to the Main Stage/Scene 1
Drag&Drop the movie clip MC to the Main stage, and give it:mc as its instance name.
And you're done. Happy holidays/Merry Christmas, and happy new year.
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