Flash Guide line making snow animation

This article describes the use of lead line in Flash to make snow animation.

This method is the most stupid but also the best effect, is to use the "Guide line" function, so that snowflakes non-stop floating ah, if more than a few layers, the effect is better.

1, create a new flash film. Set the background to "black" and the rest with the default value.

2, press CTRL F8 to create a new component, type "movie clip", named "Snowflake". In its center, draw an irregular polygon with the pencil tool and fill it with white with the paint bucket tool. (as shown in Figure 1-1)

3, and then use the CTRL F8 to build a component, type "movie clip", named "Front layer".

4, drag the component "snowflake" to it, with the "selected tool" in the "scale" function to narrow it (tip: First use Magnifier to enlarge it, and then use the "scale" function, can shrink smaller). "Insert KeyFrames" on frame 80th, with the right mouse button "Add Guide line" feature on Layer 1 (see Figure 1-2).

On the 1th frame of the newly added "guide line: Layer 1", start with "snowflake" and draw a curved curve. Drag snowflakes from the 80th frame along the curve to the end of the curve. Then click on the 1th frame of layer 1 to click the right mouse button, select the "Creative Animation action" function, see figure 1-3.

5, the 4th step is to make a snowflake, snow is not just the next piece of it. Insert layer, repeat step 4th 10 times. The effect after doing well is shown in Figure 1-4.

6, to repeat the 3rd to 5th Step two times, the difference is the name of the components are "middle" and "back layer." The size of snowflake is not the same as the path of the guide line. This is to do a few more layers, it looks a little more delicate.

7, now back to scene 1, insert 6 layers, respectively named "Back Layer 1", "Back Layer 2", "Middle 1", "Middle 2", "Middle 3", "Middle 4", "Front layer 1", "Front Layer 2". Drag the corresponding component on the corresponding layer and adjust the time axis appropriately so that the snowflakes drift together. See Figure 1-5.

You can see the effect by pressing CTRL ENTER.