Re: FLASH: Random Twinkling Stars

[Marc Hoffman]

At 03:25 PM 3/28/99 -0600, you wrote:

>No.  That solution is too processor intensive if it is to be believeable.

>Don't even think of creating individual stars as MCs. There's just too many

>of them.


Hi, Wayne.


If I may beg to differ with you: go to http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/stars/

to see a field of 100 stars created as I described in my previous post

today.  The numbers in yellow refer to frames, so you can judge movie speed

on your machine.  I set the rate to 40fps to push the limit on most

machines.  On my P166 with a wimpy 2meg Virge S-3 video card, there's no

problem achieving a rate of about 12fps.  I could have made the star tweens

simpler for greater speed (they're 40 frames each).



Marc Hoffman

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