Random Color Change for Symbols

[scook]

Any idea on how I can randomly change the specified color of over 50 objects? Maybe group them to change groups together?


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[rich]

There is no way to change colors as a flash movie plays other than to animate it or use a dirty and not too neat solution. It does, however, have its uses!

Create 3 instances of a movie clip and modify their properties so that

instance 1 : tint 100%, red 255, green 0, blue 0
instance 2 : tint 100%, red 0, green 255, blue 0
instance 3 : tint 100%, red 0, green 0, blue 255

Align all three together and you can change the transparency of each and they combine like an RGB display. Well almost, you can't get all the colours - but you will certainly get a wide variety! You can use a totally black and a totally white clip as well for even more variations.

Like I said, not very neat but you can create some nice effects using action script that would take ages to do using standard animation.

Be careful though, if you need to do lots of animation this will slow things because you are moving more objects and transparency seems to hit Flash hard.

Hope this helps,

Rich.