I was just wondering if I could explain something, then hopefully get some help with it… For my site, obviously I want it to be flash orientated. What I want to do is have the background as the stars right, like looking up at the sky at night. But the stars twinkly and move like in a circle, rotate if you will, like they do in real life. This would happen real slow though. And I also want to be able to have the odd cloud float across the screen, say from top left to bottom right or something like that.
With the stars some would shine brighter than others and these are your links; when you click them another menu fades in or something, but thats where I am up to, not sure on menu transitions and such yet.
Just wondering if anyone can give me advice, ideas, help, tutorial etc for doing this. Just anything from getting the starts to rotate and twinkle, and the cloads to go across screen etc.
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Okay, so I guess you want to do something big - well my advice would be don’t rush and be organized, especially in flash (use clean library and linkages)
for your star, it has to be actionscripted, what you can do is make a movie clip of a star, and inside make the twinkle animation. In the beginning of your movie clip make an actionscript using random that will make the start twinkle only once in a while
now all you have to do is duplicate the stars to random locations. you could duplicate them into a new movieclip, which means you’d have to rotate only the movie clip to make the stars look like they’re all rotating…
for the cloud(s) check kirupa’s tutorial on movement, it’s not complicated to understand, except if you want to actionscript circular movement, in which case you’ll have to use cos and sin…
For the buttons you could make brighter stars in the rotating movie clip, that change location if they leave the flash screen… you’d have to make them visible though…
hope this helped in anyway and i’ll be glad to look at your site one day !!!
Yes this has helped heaps mate! Appreciate it heaps! Yeah you are right, I should take my time with this, if I want it to looks good. I’m not the familiar with action script yet, so I’m looking into that now, but yeah, the whole idea of this is exciting me. Thanks heaps again!! <<opens flash??=)
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