Flex Actionscript SnowEffect
Ever wondered how to create nice dynamic motion effects in Flex? When it comes to natural effects like Rain, Snow, Fountains etc modeling the “Particle” behavior for random natural events like Wind, Trubulence etc form the basis of the implementation. An astute programmer will immediately smell “inheritance” here. Add a bit of Math to the base particle to react to these natural events, give it a look and feel and combine the math and positoning on stage with tween effects. Add group behavior and you have dynamic realistic effects!
Sounds simple? Probably not! Enter the power of a components and it really is easy to add these dynamic effects by treating the component as a black-box and configuring its many properties to create the dynamic effect with just a single line of code that instantiates the lifecycle of the component.
Since seeing is believing, take a look at this Flex Snow effect. It can be attached to any Flex display object including images and photos. It supports many configuration options like wind, turbulence, snow flake size, intensity etc. With this component, you can make it snow anywhere, even in a tropical paradise where you took your last vacation.
Since this is a pure Actionscript component, it supports both Flex 3 and Flex 4. A detailed overview of this component can be found here.
