Re: FLASH: Flash4: more efficient method?

[Cheri Harder]

Hi, Bob


I could picture it all done with one movie clip, or maybe three or four for

more variance in the look/shape/components of the blood cells, but you could

vary z-order, speed, rotation, size, alpha, and placement using duplicate mc

and randomizing the various property settings...


snippet of code:


Set Variable: "/:n" = /:n+1

Duplicate Movie Clip ("/mcCell", "cell"&/:n, n)

Set Property ("/mcCell/grCell"&/:n, Rotation) = Random (360)

Set Property ("mcCell"&/:n, Alpha) = Random (30)+70


and so forth, with scale, etc.  Would need to make the back ones smaller &

darker though, so some of the numbers can't be totally random, but based on

a factor of some kind.


Maybe this will give you some ideas, though.


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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> I have a question about how would be the most efficient way to complete

> this. My movie is 400w x 100h. It has about 50 red blood cells that flow

> from left to right at different speeds as they rotate. Currently I have

> about 15 movie clips on as many layers. Each MC contains 2 or 3 cells. I

> then layer all these to give the desired effect. How could this be more

> easily done? Thanks in advance.





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