Posts Tagged ‘ActionScript’

UNI [SITE + MOTION] – CURSOR GENERATED CLOUD

May 6th, 2009 | Richard Almond

I’ve been going through my files and trying to root out the cause of the jittering in my animations. Once area for consideration was the cloud trails which are generated by the cursor movement. I experimented with a few different bits of ActionScript I found in books and online, some results being more successful than others. This one didn’t come out quite as I’d hoped, but I still think it’s quite nice. It’s almost as if you’re blasting through the clouds in a jet.

UNI [SITE + MOTION] – SWF SIZE PROBLEMS RESOLVED?

May 5th, 2009 | Richard Almond

Ok so after doing some research into optimizing flash files, it seems that as much of the animation work as possible should be ActionScripted, rather than tweened, to reduce file size. I then discovered that you can ActionScipt a tween relatively easily, using “Easing” and “Tween Classes”. After a lot of fiddling, I’ve managed to recreate the moving clouds animation using an extended tween, where more than one property can be tweened at the same time, in this case both x translation and alpha value. The hardest part was getting the animation to loop. Having two movie clips with two tweens, Flash requires you to set both instances to loop. Pretty obvious now…

I realise this is pretty boring but feel it marks a transition in my Flash ability from “extremely basic” to “half-decent”. Or at least that’s what I hope! The transition at the end of the loop still needs a little work.