re: Floating Images

[stagehand]

Hi all,

I'm looking to emulate the effect on http://www.sade.com

Can anyone tell me how this is done?

Most appreciated

[PAlexC]

My bad, didn't read your subject.

That's just some simple motion and alpha tweening with a few images.
[Edited by PAlexC on 05-13-2001 at 12:59 PM]

[stagehand]

I'm not talking about the way they fade in. I'm talking about the way the continuely float - And that when you click them you can drag them and throw them about.

Anyone?

[Psyduck]

There should be an tutorial on dragable menus up there.

You need to adapt this slightly.

Firstly you need to remove all the y axis mouse movement stuff out of it. That will cause the object to drag along a line.

Secondly you need a little script for momentum.

It needs to record how far the mouse has travel over time.

so momentum = (x coords mouse up - x coords mouse down)/ms

With this we can tell the object to keep moving after mouse release.

Lastly we need a friction value. This is simply momentum - friction = speed until speed = 0.

Loop all this in symbols and you're there

[stagehand]

Thanks

The one thing that I would point out though is that the floating images are not connected to the mouse in any way, does this matter?

[Psyduck]

They get connected as soon as you click on them