Hello all,
I am using the snow method wonderfully created here on Kirupa and have a quick question. As it is now the clip starts with snow, I’d like the snow to slowly start falling at say 3 seconds into the clip and then stop after 5. The stopping works fine using the removesnow() with a setInterval, but I can’t figure out a way to get the snow to start falling. Using setInterval just suddenly fills the screen with snow. Thanks!
[AS]
var movieWidth = 470;
var movieHeight = 230;
createEmptyMovieClip(“snowholder”,this.getNextHighestDepth());
function makesnow() {
for (var i = 0; i<500; i++) {
var clip = snowholder.attachMovie(“snow”, “s”+i, i);
clip.i = 1+Math.random()*2;
clip.k = -Math.PI+Math.random()*Math.PI;
clip._xscale = clip._yscale=20+Math.random()*100;
clip._alpha = 75+Math.random()*100;
clip._x = -10+Math.random()*movieWidth;
clip._y = -10+Math.random()*movieHeight;
clip.finished = false
clip.onEnterFrame = move;
}
}
function move() {
this.rad += (this.k/180)*Math.PI;
this._x -= Math.cos(this.rad);
this._y += this.i;
if (this._y>=movieHeight) {
if(!this.finished){
this._y = -5;
}else{
this.removeMovieClip()
}
}
if ((this._x>=movieWidth) || (this._x<=0)) {
this._x = -10+Math.random()*movieWidth;
this._y = -5;
}
}
function removesnow() {
for (var obj in snowholder) {
if (typeof snowholder[obj] == “movieclip”) {
snowholder[obj].finished = true
}
}
}
makesnow();
setInterval(removesnow,5000);
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