# Uber sparkle effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uber-sparkle-effect/168544>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 8, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uber-sparkle-effect/168544 "2005-11-08T02:10:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![deevius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@deevius](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/deevius)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uber-sparkle-effect/168544/1 "2005-11-08T02:10:23Z")

</div>

I just love [www.liquidjourney.com](http://www.liquidjourney.com/) and all of their great source experiments, it’s just a shame some of them are some CPU intensive. I downloaded this sparkle effect and have been playing around with it a bit (well all I really did was changed the color and mc/mask sizes to suit me)… at first when it was unmodified the animation was using about 40-60% of cpu which isn’t too bad i don’t think but for some reason when I made the area smaller it kicked the cpu usage straight up to 100% which I think is quite weird.

the animation is currently running at: [http://cg.psdsliced.com/test1](http://cg.psdsliced.com/test1) as you can see it lags the whole site and eats up a whole lot of CPU usage.  
Is there any way I can make the animation run a lot smoother or should I just avoid using cool animations like this altogether? 😛

my .FLA file is here if anyone wants to play with it (mx2004 format): [http://cg.psdsliced.com/test1/feature.fla](http://cg.psdsliced.com/test1/feature.fla)