# MX - TV snow/fuzz effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 20, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505 "2003-10-20T14:02:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![wilma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@wilma](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wilma)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/1 "2003-10-20T14:02:38Z")

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Does anyone know how to recreate the TV snow effect, you know when you’re trying to tune in a tv channel and all you get is the ‘fuzz’?

any help would be most appreciated.

wilma

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/2 "2003-10-20T14:14:13Z")

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suppose you have a small dot with instance name ‘dot’. now add this as to frame 1. (this is very cpu intensive)

```auto

_root.onEnterFrame=function(){
for(i=0;i<500;i++){
dot.duplicateMovieClip("dot"+i,i)
this["dot"+i]._x=Math.random()*Stage.width
this["dot"+i]._y=Math.random()*Stage.height}}

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/3 "2003-10-20T15:01:21Z")

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or instead of recreating all of the dots every frame, you could place them there once, and then inside the dot MC have something like

```auto

myColor = new Color(this);
onEnterFrame = function(){
random(2)==0 ? myColor.setRGB(0x000000) : myColor.setRGB(0xFFFFFF);
}

```

(untested)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/4 "2003-10-20T15:08:10Z")

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now it’s tested, and it works.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/5 "2003-10-20T16:16:49Z")

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hey I have been looking or this same effect too, i downloaded your fla but the fuzz looks a little big (big dots) and just doesn’t have that TV effect with the huge dots. Is it just me or what?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/6 "2003-10-20T16:22:37Z")

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thanks for your help jingman, i’ve played around with the code and got it just the right size for what i want to do - the only stumbling block is that i want the effect to come through a rounded corner rectangle which is to be the mask, unfortunately it doesn’t look like you can get this effect to sit behind a mask.

any ideas how i could create the rounded corners??

wilma.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/7 "2003-10-20T17:09:26Z")

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BillyBaker:

Yeah, my dot MCs are big (10px by 10px) - real easy to fix.

Wilma:

like you said, just mask it. Put my “spawnArray” function inside an MC, and mask that MC - this should work. If it doesn’t work, take a look at how I use attachMovie - that might be the problem (I wrote that array function a long time ago).

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/8 "2003-10-20T21:10:25Z")

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Wilma, here is your TV 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/9 "2003-10-20T23:02:15Z")

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That’s pretty CPU intensive tho…I got a pretty good comp and it lagged Ctrl+entering it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/10 "2003-10-20T23:07:36Z")

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Yup, I noticed the same thing.

Pretty sure the best way to create such an effect is to just make a 5 or so frame MC each with a different static pattern (easily created in photoshop).

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-tv-snow-fuzz-effect/33505/11 "2003-10-20T23:08:54Z")

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Yea, even with the simple duplicate movie clip deal it would still take up a few cycles…