Flash Buttons and After Effects CC Snow and CC Rain effects
// Friday - March 12, 2010 - Last class before spring break...
effects_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, justDoIt);
snowing.visible = false;
raining.visible = false;
var uniURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE");
function justDoIt(evt:MouseEvent):void {
snowing.visible = false;
raining.visible = false;
if (mouseY < 95)
{
snowing.visible = true;
}
else if (mouseY < 190)
{
raining.visible = true;
}
else if (mouseY > 285)
{
navigateToURL(uniURL, "_self");
}
}
- Video: How to create invisible Flash buttons, render CC Snow as FLV, etc. Up, Over, Down and Hit states.
Instance names, Flash Actionscript 3.0, buttons that listen for CLICK events.
- The Dancing Campanile includes audio - the UNI Panther fight song is part of the movie clip symbol imported into Flash from After Effects.
- VIP: More extensive After Effects and Flash Actionscript 3.0 code/button example includes another version of the Dancing Campanile
and links to other resources, including the After Effects and Flash tutorial from Layers magazine.
- Let spring break begin... Friday, March 12th, 2010... May March madness starlight shine brightly on UNI Panther basketball this spring break week!