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Flash Particle Generator v2

November 28, 2006 at 11:08 pm · Filed under Flash, Play, Portfolio

After some sudden interest around my old particle generator experiment, I decided to update the code and add in a few more features.

ActionScript Experiment - Flash Particle Generator

To play with the update, follow me…

Instructions

Click and drag to create particles. The angle and speed of the particles depend on how you move the mouse.
Press SPACE to change particle types.

It’s quite interesting seeing the performance issues that arise when more complicated particle movieclips are used. As soon as I get into ActionScript 3, I’ll recreate this to see how much more we can get away with.

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Michael Battle - Work & Play » ActionScript 3 - First Steps - Flash and Actionscript Experiments! said,

January 25, 2007 @ 10:34 am

[…] So - for nothing more than plain hard proof that I did actually manage to get something done, here is a dramatically simplified version of the particle generator that you’ve seen here and here. […]

Dave said,

January 30, 2007 @ 10:37 am

Hi Michael,

Is there any chance you would release the source of this project? I would love to use it on a personal project.

Michael said,

January 30, 2007 @ 5:09 pm

Hey Dave - I’ve posted the code for a very similar project in this post - it’s all in AS3 but I don’t think you’ll have any trouble porting it over.

Good luck!

mel said,

January 31, 2007 @ 3:47 pm

Excellent. What do you eat? ;-)

Jeff said,

May 25, 2007 @ 6:54 am

Exellent work Michael…

I am attempting to import the .as you have generously provided into a .fla I am compiling. However I am having no such luck. On the particleGenerator.swf you have made available is there a source file or tutorial available to help me understand how to get the .as into my .fla?

Thank you, keep up the inspiring work.

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