# Steam?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam/4587
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 13, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam/4587 "2002-08-13T21:37:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@scooter98](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scooter98)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam/4587/1 "2002-08-13T21:37:41Z")
Hi Group,
I am wondering how you would suggest I go about trying to create some rising steam, such as would be coming from a cup of coffee? Any ideas will be appreciated. I’m using Flash MX.
Bob
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam/4587/2 "2002-08-13T21:44:03Z")
it really depends on the effect you’re going for and the picture of the cup of coffee that you have. different types of steam can be made. you could photograph and animate a loop that way, or take a movie of the steam rising. you could also take one of those methods and trace it by hand creating a tweened animation. or you could draw the standard s curves rising up off of the surface of the liquid to show heat or steam coming off.
it’s really up to you and like i said … it depends on the look you’re going for
hope this helps
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam/4587/3 "2002-08-13T22:14:11Z")
Here’s something funny you can try (I didn’t do it, someone called Jo did). Paste this in the 1st frame of your movie:
```auto
l = 1;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("mc", 0);
_root.mc.lineStyle(7, 0xEFEFEF, 100);
_root.mc.moveTo(50, 50);
_root.mc.lineTo(75, 50);
_root.mc.lineStyle(7, 0xFF9900, 100);
_root.mc.lineTo(80, 50);
_root.mc._x += 155;
_root.mc._y += 155;
_root.mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("mc"+l, l);
_root["mc"+l].lineStyle(3, 0xCCCCCC, 100);
_root["mc"+l].moveTo(50, 50);
_root["mc"+l].lineTo(55, 45);
_root["mc"+l]._x += 150;
_root["mc"+l]._y += 150;
l++;
for (i=0; i < l; i++) {
_root["mc"+i]._rotation += Math.sin(i);
_root["mc"+i]._alpha -= 1;
_root["mc"+i]._xscale -= 5;
_root["mc"+i]._yscale -= 5;
}
};
```
pom :asian:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam/4587/4 "2002-08-13T23:17:38Z")
Thanks for your responses. I forgot to mention that I am brand new to flash. I found one example at
[http://www.sakurateam.com/flashlab.php?name=smoke&fla=1](http://www.sakurateam.com/flashlab.php?name=smoke&fla=1)
and it looked pretty nice , about what I was hoping for. I probably want to use something I can draw in flash and tween. The code from ilyaslamasse turned out to be a smoking cigarette, pretty clever.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam/4587/5 "2002-08-14T05:58:11Z")
Wow! very nice link, scooter! And they even got sources to download. I’m going to look at that closely…
pom :asian:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam/4587/6 "2002-08-14T06:06:43Z")
omgosh … so cool!