# Falling Snow: Area of Effect dimensions

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**Created:** [December 14, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/falling-snow-area-of-effect-dimensions/210005 "2006-12-14T00:51:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/falling-snow-area-of-effect-dimensions/210005/1 "2006-12-14T00:51:32Z")

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Hello!

I realise there are quite a few posts regarding the snow tutorials. This one is a little different in that I’ve already got it working behind a layer, the trick was putting the AS stuff in its own movie clip, and then masking that.

What im stuck with is as to which parts of the code control _where_ the snow field is placed. I mean in terms of x, y coordinates.

One more thing too, does anyone know why my snow would say, start generating snow from the _top_ of its area, and then 20 seconds later decide to start generating the snow from halfway down?

I’d really appreciate some speedy answers 🙂

One more thing too - where in the script can you specify the amount of time the snow actually falls for? I’m using the Falling Snow 3.0 tutorial as a reference.