Comments on: Graphic Design - Making Smoke in Flash

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:59:04 +0000

Nice to see a tutorial start out in Photoshop before getting to the Flash implementation!

If you look at real smoke (search google for “smoke column”) you’ll notice that smoke actually has a lot of volume and as a result it has clear lighting and shading. If you implement that in your smoke sprite, so it almost has a 3D sphere appearance (but smokey, of course) you end up with a much more realistic end effect.

By: Juan Fernando Velez

Juan Fernando Velez — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:07:29 +0000

Great, it’s as simple as useful.
You could add some realism just adding a little rotation:

In the constructor:
rs = Math.random() * 6 - 3;

In the Loop:
rotation += rs;

An it will look with a little turbulence effect.

Thank you very much.

By: Andrew Odendaal

Andrew Odendaal — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:40:37 +0000

Nice way of doing it!

By: Salvy

Salvy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:16:29 +0000

Great tutorial. I am in the process of switching from AS2 to AS3, I am still a little clueless about AS3.

By: noshun

noshun — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:35:53 +0000

How can you apply this for lets say a dust trail from someone running? I also found this tutorial it looks similar:

http://www.rnel.net/tutorial/Flash/11015

Im going to try both and see the results.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:43:38 +0000

Im loving the tutorials, they have helped me more then any other site has, hoping you’ll put out more eventually

By: Heruka

Heruka — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:04:02 +0000

Actually, you have to right-click on the movieclip in the Library and select Properties. in that, you can link your clip with a class by checking “Export for ActionScript” and specifying the class.

If you’re directly right-clicking a movieclip on the stage, you can try selecting “Show in Library” to find it in the Library and then perform the actions I mentioned earlier.

By: thebirdbath

thebirdbath — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:37:51 +0000

I’m new to CS4 so I’m running into a problem when trying to right click on the movie clip and selecting linkage. I can do this in CS3 but its not showing up in CS4. Anyone care to help out on this?

By: ilike2flash

ilike2flash — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:30:27 +0000

Great effect, thanks.

By: Par

Par — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:08:57 +0000

Definitely good point. Thanks.