Comments on: Neon flickering effect in AS3 tutorial

By: xtomx

xtomx — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:21:58 +0000

Nicely done. Question, do you think it is good practice to abbreviate variable names? Instead of “maxFlker,” why not “maxFlicker”? It’s not like AS charges by the letter.

By: UltraVisual

UltraVisual — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:39:17 +0000

Hi Yes it is best practice to add any assets in flash as a symbol or movieclip, this enables the asset to be easily reusable, but also so that you can add the neccessary filters to them which can’t be done to simple shapes. I have not created this tute and aimed it solely at noobs but at people who have at least a simple understanding of flash and suggest that maybe you study a little more about the basics of flash before moving on to more intermediate things……
Shane

By: Levin

Levin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:08 +0000

Hi.
Great tutorial, only I am a noob with flash so I don’t understand a thing about the first step.
For me you are going too fast.
Make this into a shape, press CTRL and F8 for symbol….
I mean, what do I have to make into a symbol?
Step by step tutorials for noobs like me are much easier to understand.

Great affort never the less

By: Gaz

Gaz — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:57:29 +0000

This is brilliant, exactly what I’m looking for….but how do you turn the flash file into a hyperlink?? Is it possible?

By: UltraVisual

UltraVisual — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:34:16 +0000

Hi
It would be very simple, you would just find the point you wanted to end it, namely at the end of a timer function and instead of making it loop back to the beginning add a tween effect to fade the text out to nothing…..if you need any help just email me your files and I’ll adjust it for you.

Shane

By: Dali

Dali — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:27:28 +0000

Brilliant !
Thank you !

By: UltraVisual

UltraVisual — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:44:42 +0000

Hi Dali,
In the flicker.as file there is a glow filter applied on line 18, the first parameter for this is the color of the glow which is currently set to 0xFF00FF which is a pink glow, just change this colour to a different hexidecimal color and it will change the color of the glow for you. For more details on glowfilters go to: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/
Thanks
Shane

By: Dali

Dali — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:44:59 +0000

This is very interesting !

But I also would like to change the glow color to yellow (light bulb effect) instead of purple. Where do I change that ?

Thank you !

By: Береслава

Береслава — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:44:25 +0000

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