Fireworks Experiment (not the program)

[GW02]

Like fireworks fireworks, not macromedia fireworks. :P

It's extremely CPU-intensive, though... lots and lots of particles. Maybe someone can optimize if possible? I would, but I think it's at its best with my limited knowledge.

[Jeff Wheeler]

I'd love for an swf (can't compile it, only live with mx)

[GW02]

http://www.colonyl2.info/random/fireworks.html

:D

[Jeff Wheeler]

Nice. My suggestions are to possibly sharpen it up a bit, and maybe increase the frame-rate when they're falling.

Other than that, very impressive. Much better than what I could do.

[GW02]

Thanks.

The framerate's actually set to 36 fps. It's the alpha-channel processing that takes a whole load of CPU, dropping the fps.
That, and a whole lot of floating-point math.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Ouch

[pom]

Very nice :) One strange thing though: most of the fireworks shoot out of the visible area :P

[Voetsjoeba]

Jesus Christ, that's one awesome effect ! :thumb:

I'm up for optimizing ! :)

[GW02]

Heh, thanks! :D

[ContinuumXLS]

Yeah, I love the effect you made! If you could make that a little smoother, I would have to say that that would be the best fireworks script ive seen!

(maybe add a color change kind of like voet's fireworks??)

[GW02]

Voets is working on the smoothness, hope he can get somewhere with it. :)

[pom]

Could you by any means provide an MX version? Or post the code? =)

[andr.in]

wow that's nice.... on low quality it runs a bit better and doesn't look much worse

[CanadianGuy]

Very cool! Where the heck were you two months ago? :lol:

[Voetsjoeba]

There wasn't much to optimize really - the CPU intensivity is just because of the many alpha animations and the amount of movieclips. I had it subtract and divide instead of add and multiply where possible for a slight speed increase, but the code itself is quite fine.

Oh and, I made the alpha animations slightly faster, but not losing the effect.

[GW02]

Thanks everyone! It feels so great getting complimented by all you gurus. :P

Very cool! Where the heck were you two months ago? :lol:
Buried under a mound of homework, digging myself out with a salad fork, why? :ko:

As per request, non-mx2004 version (Not voets' version, the original)

[pom]

Thanks :)

[smoothhabitat]

check these fireworks out though: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/card3.html

[GW02]

Whoa.

The use of the graphics API is fairly nice, but some of the movements are kinda unnatural. Once it drifted upwards!

[Vexir]

I think its rather realistic. But hey thats me. Nice job GWing_02. Why is actionscript so hard for me to understand? lol

[Infinitation]

Love the HP example, yet another thing to try and learn. Great job on your fireworks though, best rendition I have seen for flash thusfar. Keep up the (bad pun) stellar work!

[signifer123]

Thats awesome man, just need to get that thijg fine tuned then it will just be perfect