Bored in Class: The second return

[eilsoe]

OK!

Yet another day in class with nothing to do...

So.. I've been cruising on levitated.net (haven't been there for a while), and decided to recreate one of the open source exhibitions.

mine: www.avalon-rev.dk/junk/particles/particles2.html (http://www.avalon-rev.dk/junk/particles/particles2.html)


I wrote the code myself, without looking at the levitated.net source (personal challenge.. or whatever...)


It's not exactly as the levitated.net one, mine follows the cursor around.

it has:

- Alpha generation on particle-birth.
- Mouse follow
- 2 modes of death (click the text in the lower-left corner to switch between them.
-Alpha degeneration on death
-random size and placement based on follower position

I used basic AS principles, so the code is messy, and hardly very effecient :blush:


if anyone wants the fla to play around with, just ask, I'll post it here then...


Over and out!

[davidh.]

VERY cool. Maybe I should learn action script :P.

[eilsoe]

Actually I made that using random, easing, duplicatemovieclip and removemovieclip :P

aaand a few other minor things :) No real challenge, even for you novices :)


here the fla, see for yourself: www.avalon-rev.dk/junk/particles/particles2.zip


mind you, my AS is messy... :sure:

[eilsoe]

hm.. apparently duplicateMovieClip is ignored in FireFox... it only gives me one stinking particle...

[Voetsjoeba]

Indeed. Doesn't work in Mozilla either :/ It's nice though ! :thumb:

[eilsoe]

Mozilla != FireFox? :huh:

[Voetsjoeba]

Mozilla, Firefox and Netscape are based on the same engine.

[eilsoe]

I thought it was called "Mozilla FireFox"... :huh:

there's a browser called Mozilla too?

[Voetsjoeba]

Yep. It's got a mailing client in it, IRC app ... a big package around a browser actually. FF would be the browser only.

[lunatic]

Mozilla is Firefox with more stuff. Firefox is just the browswer. And if you want just the mail client get Thunderbird. :thumb:

And yeah, I was wondering what the big deal with your file was! I couldn't get it to do anything! :P Gonna check it in IE now . . .

:hr:

[lostinbeta]

Aw shucks, you created it in MX2k4, I can't open the .fla file :(

Good stuff though! You always talk down on your skills with AS, but you know what... even if your methods aren't the 'best', you still get the job done! You put your mind to it and do it any way you know how. And you always come up with great stuff.

Isn't messing with particles in flash fun!? I LOVE messing with particles in Flash. Last week I coded a particle system based off of bit-101s gravity tutorial. It started off as something like...

http://www.lostinbeta.com/experimental/gravParticles.html

But I decided to make the code more versatile, and if by chance you didn't feel like generating the particles via AS, you can just click and drag the particle clip from the library and make whatever you want... thus produced this...

http://www.lostinbeta.com/experimental/gravParticles_v2.html (uses your :love: smiley... I hope you don't mind :x)

[kO2n]

exploding smilies! i love it!!

~ V ~

[Voetsjoeba]

*browses through lost's experimental folder* ;)

[lostinbeta]

It's opened intentionally ;) There's nothing but crap in there anyway (a lot of it is from 2 years ago when I first started), I got a billion more things on my system that I never uploaded ;)

[Voetsjoeba]

Well, what are you waiting for ? :P

[lostinbeta]

I'd sooner delete the directory ;P (the newer-esque ones suck too)

Where's Eilsoe at? :h:

Well if he revisits this thread.... hey Eilsoe, can you try and resave that .fla file as MX so I can open it?

[eilsoe]

booh!! :P


um, yeah, if mx2k4 can saves as a backwards compatible mx file... lemme just try it (after I've install SH4, got it his weekend! :love: If I were to spend my money on ANYthing, it'd have to be that game, so I did :P I couldn't wait for christmas...

[lostinbeta]

2k4 can save as MX, I've had a few people save files back so I could take a look at some AS issues.