Sparkling Effect

1

I have an image of a waterfall going into a lake. I want to give the effect of motion. I want to have some little sparkles coming down the waterfall, and have some sparkles moving around in the lake itself. I want the sparkles to have like a reflective light effect (like alternate from a shade of blue to bright white every second or so, something like that).

Does anyone know of a tutorial for this? I am decently new to Flash MX but learning quickly. Thanks in advance.

-Thad

2

Read the tutorials on this site for motion tweening.

Then you can just make a ‘sparkle’ movie clip that is transparent blue on frame one, and then shape tweens from transparent blue to white and back down to transparent blue, then dump code on it like this:

// In the first frame
stop();
onEnterFrame = function(){
if(random(20) == 1){
play();
}
}