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Friday, August 01, 2008

Snowflake Modification Tutorial

Source: The Cosmonaut

While helping out on the forums at FlashKit, I came across this post:

Hello,
We have a project that requires free falling snow flakes. When the cursor enters the stage we need the flakes to ‘rush’ toward the pointer and follow it. When the cursor leaves the stage the flakes drift away and down.

Can anyone point me toward an FLA or tutorial?

Many thanks

Well, for some reason I got all obsessed with this question and I wrote the following tutorial. I did a rough version that emulates this effect. You can probably fine-tune it to be nicer, but this will get you started. Here’s what you need to do:

 

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