Light Steam
Posted by Will | Filed under Adobe Flash, Experiments
So it seems I’ve been neglecting this blog lately. I guess I’ve been a little busy now that I’m working full time again. Nonetheless I thought I’d throw up this little ‘light stream’ effect I’ve been working on. This is really just a re-imagining of a very similar effect I did for a banner ad a little while back.
This effect is achieved by combining several of the Flash players features such as the drawing API, Blur & Glow Filters, blendMode and BitmapData. The original version I did was built for Flash 8 in AS2, this version is AS3 but still built in a very similar way. I’ve made it customizable by being able to set the size, length and colours of the stream as well as being able to set the initial darkness.
I’m not sure what I plan on doing with it yet. I may work on it a little more still… who knows. Move your mouse around to see the light stream.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Very nice effect. I love the shadows in the Mondeo banner too, really cool. Too bad you’ve not posted the source, I was going to try and add some sparkler like particles falling off it and lighting things up some more. Lawrie.
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 am
Very Nice FX Will, love the color n shadows and yes unfortunately, having a full time job makes hard to keep the blog going same thing happens to me.
Greetings
Dave
May 4th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
This is actually a very nice effect