Flash Stylized Text Preloader

[Solidus]

Hey guys,
Its been a while since I have posted here hope everyone has been doing well.

Just had a simple question:
I want to make a preloader that counts from 1 to 100% but with a stylized font and a slight blur to it kind
of like this flash component:

http://www.flashcomponents.net/component/blur_percentage_preloader.html

Where should I start? Any good tuts?

[Solidus]

Is it pretty difficult? I hate buying components since its more satisfying to create it yourself but if this is something that would take a bit of time maybe i should.

[MurtenSaerbi]

This basically is a counter that adds up and checks how "fast" you move your mouse and applies a blurfilter accordingly. The faster your mouse moves, the more it blurs out.

Not difficult at all and it shouldn't take you more than five minutes. I suggest you check out the BlurFilter in flash first. Adding the mouse speed thingy is simple and can be done once you understand the BlurFilter (which isn't that hard either).



import flash.filters.BlurFilter;

var blurX:Number=16;
var blurY:Number=16;
var quality:Number=3;
var our_blur:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(blurX, blurY, quality);
var blurfilterArray:Array = [];
blurfilterArray.push(our_blur);

my_mc.filters = blurfilterArray;

[Solidus]

Thanks so much for the help Murten I will try that.