Comments on: Ready for the storm

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:22:49 +0000

Hi Gus. I don’t mind at all if you use this script. Thanks so much for having the courtesy to ask first and let me know if you have any questions about it.

By: Gus

Gus — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:46:34 +0000

Jason,
I want to tell you this is an awesome script! I would like to know if you will allow me to use it? I’m gonna need to make some modifications but all in all its a workable solution for me. Please let me know as soon as you can. Thanks and keep up the great work!

V/r

Gus C.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:53:07 +0000

Hey Another Chris. I just tried out placing the code inside a MovieClip instance which I had on the bottom layer in the timeline and it put the storm behind the stuff in the foreground. Take a look at this zip file and let me know if we’re talking about the same thing.

By: Another Chris

Another Chris — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:18:54 +0000

Thanks Jason! I’ll try those suggestions. Flashforward sounded great this year. It’s awesome that you got to attend. I’m hoping they’ll host it in Atlanta or Orlando next time so I can attend. For now I appreciate your list of winners and the podcasts Flashforward made.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:55:18 +0000

Hey Chris. Thanks! I’ll try a few things out when I get home from Flashforward but just off the top of my head, you might try directly setting the depths of the clouds and stuff to a low number instead of using getNextHighestDepth(). Or you might try creating the storm first and then setting the depth of the objects in the foreground with getNextHighestDepth(). Again tho, I’ll mess around with it when I get home.

By: Another Chris

Another Chris — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:47:11 +0000

Nice effect, Jason! Long time troller, first time commenter. Love the blog and widget. Also, thanks for posting this project.
I like the first Chris’s idea of having the storm in the background. I haven’t been working with Flash that long and have been struggling with getting the ActionScript to run in the background. I tried putting the foreground in a higher layer, embedding the AS in a movieclip in the lower layer, and even using a mask. Any suggestions? Thanks!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:20:46 +0000

Sure thing Chris! I’m finishing up some projects at work right now, but I’ll get the code for this up before the day is out. Hope that’s not too late for ya.

By: Chris Simpkins

Chris Simpkins — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:16:15 +0000

I was wondering if you had a tutorial on how to do this. I am currenlty working on an image with a storm in the background. I want to make it seem as thought the storm is approching.

Thanks,
Chris