# Explosive Text
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [January 16, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613 "2002-01-16T18:26:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/1 "2002-01-16T18:26:38Z")
I know the people who read these are amazin on flash, so can someone please tell me how to make text animated so it looks like it explodes?
I’ve seen it on dozens of sites but i dont know how it works.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/2 "2002-01-16T20:00:49Z")
i was working late in my lab last night and all of a sudden something came to my sight , it was fright it did the EXPLOSIVE TEXT ohhhh yeahhhhh
heres one way to do it custom made explosion…
1.create text on the main stage
2.ctlr b ( breaks apart the text) or go to modify and click break apart
3. convert each letter inbto a seperate movie clip
4.animate each movie clip (each letter) as to how u want
5. take pictures of peeple on this board and post them in funny movies(step 5 is optional )
another way would be to get atomatic explosion text from useing this site [board.flashkit.com/cgi-bi…omain\_id=2](http://board.flashkit.com/cgi-bin/myfk/favourites.cgi?op=display&domain_id=2)
it has some options
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/3 "2002-01-16T20:49:23Z")
What Rhyle said is right. If you have some time ahead of you, you can take each letter in its own layer an animate it.
But you’ll find here an ultra advanced way to do it. Very cool, really, but advanced.
[www.synaptology.com/flash…flash.html](http://www.synaptology.com/flash_files/flash.html)
pom
Isn’t the animation below slowing down your computer too ???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/4 "2002-01-16T21:00:29Z")
Hey, I guess that if you don’t want to use that really awful script, you can try and make that :
perouse Kirupa’s tutorial about random movement
when you’re sure you understand everything, replace the movie clip he uses with a letter. Use the script that chooses a random destination point and make the script go there. If you do it with a full word, you should get something nice. Then play with the fading, teh scaling or anything you like to make your animation look really cool.
I’ll try and make the same thing here.
pom
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/5 "2002-01-17T20:09:01Z")
Yeah baby yeah ! Looks nice (my opinion). Check it out here :
[www.multimania.com/ilyasl…plode.html](http://www.multimania.com/ilyaslamasse/explode.html)
The letters move to random destinations, fade, change scale and spin. Everything’s done with actionscript, so it’s only 3kb. Just kills me.
I just have to add the script to choose a random angle of rotation, scaling and speed of fading and it will be done.
Special Thanks to Suprabeener without whom I’d probably be scratching my head through the brain right now.
pom
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/6 "2002-01-18T17:09:40Z")
There it is. Random motion, random scaling decrease, random rotation… But why does it always go to the left ? Mystery.
pom
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/7 "2002-01-18T18:44:09Z")
isnt action scripting great?
nope.
but yeah its weird the way its supposed to be random, but it dont seem like it. hmm.
maybe there is something out there laughing at us right now.
maybe not.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2002, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/8 "2002-01-18T20:10:49Z")
That upsets me greatly. Poor Pom spent so much time on that whole random motion thing, but you really wouldn’t notice it was random motion unless a) he told you or b) you bothered to watch the movie again and again. When it comes does to it, if that wasn’t random motion it would be really easy. And so, not as many people will be as impressed as they should be.
Poor, poor Pom.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/9 "2002-01-18T20:20:42Z")
It’s unfair, I know. But I’ll get over it.
Or maybe I won’t.
pom
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/10 "2002-01-18T21:01:06Z")
or… being totally less inventive you could download Swish… that does it like… that really… simple
BOOM
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/11 "2002-01-18T21:30:16Z")
Really, I don’t think anybody has ever made a predictable random motion, not Swish not anybody (I hope).
pom
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/explosive-text/3613/12 "2002-01-19T21:39:02Z")
OK, thanks to Supra, everything’s fine now. It’s too bad the footer of my previous thread changed too because then we could have compared everything.
But it’s not over : next step, I want to set a random angle at the beginning, and then make the text move like there’s gravity. And maybe make it bounce against the walls.
Supra, get ready for some question…
pom