[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica][SIZE=2]Hi folks,
I have plenty of ways of creating falling snow like effects, but a client has just comitted me to an effect as a test of my ability without talking to me first, that I am a little stumped by.
I need to have a top down falling snow effect (its actually supposed to be flour falling from a sieve but hey…). All the snow effects I know, fall down sideways on, from top to bottom, and then they disappear off the page (the flakes).
I need the particles (movieclips) to fall downwards from a birds eye view, and 90% of them to disappear, but the remaining 10% to gradually (over about 5 seconds) build up a white logo (shape) in the middle of the screen.
So I am guessing that I am going to have to be clever with dynamic masks to get the shape appearing a little bit at a time, and then I also need some random motion, and scaling as the particles fall downwards (and away) from the eye.
Before I jump in at the deep end, has anyone got any ideas on this, even just part of it (the falling particles or the revealing dynamic mask part) would be a great help.
Please let me know if you can help with ideas and input in anyway, and I’ll give you credit on the final project when complete, as well as much help as I can with game related scripting and deisgn (see http://www.nickbutlernet.net for some of my work)
Cheers, and any help gratefully appreciated.
Drakash.
PS: I will keep adding new versions of my tests as I complete them if you’re interested.[/SIZE][/FONT]
