FLASH: twinkle twinkle

[Gahlord Dewald]

Here's how I would do it:


Make yourself a symbol of your star with maybe 6 keyframes in it, make sure

that each of these keyframes has version of the star with different alpha or

brightness, however you're making your twinkling work.


Then... heheheheh...


put a bunch of them on the stage along with an action clip (great term for

those little mcs with just actionscript in them) that targets all of them

(say you name them twinkle1, twinkle2, etc. your action clip will

tell_target twinkle&i where i is a number between 1 and whatever the total

number of stars you have is).


You have that tell_target doing a goto and stop on a random frame between 1

and 6.


So now all of your stars will be going to different random keyframes. Flash

does something screwy with 0 and 1 something about honest-to-God integers so

all of my number suggestions may be off by 1 but you can figure that out.

Sorry I don't have some cut and paste code for you but I'm trying

desperately to get my 5k project out the door.


Anyone else competing in the 5k project?


G



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