Re: FLASH: Random Twinkling Stars

[Marc Hoffman]

At 11:06 AM 3/28/99 -0800, you wrote:

>At 08:54 AM 3/28/99 +0530, you wrote:

>>Hi,

>>I have a MC of a twinkling star. how can I place multiple instances of

>>of this MC on my main movie and make it appear that the twinkling is

>>random?

>

>If it must be the same MC, you'll have to insert it in different places on

>the timeline (using a new layer for each instance, since any encountered

>keyframe will reset all MC's that exist in that layer).  

>

>Alternately, add a blank keyframe at the start of the MC. Give it the

>action to Go To frame #N.  At the end of the MC, place the action Go To and

>Play frame #2. Now make copies of this MC, one for each star.


Actually, you don't need one for each star, of course.  My example at

http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/stars uses 10 different clips, which is still

probably overkill.



Marc Hoffman

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