Fire! effect

[ant_Z]

http://www.wilki.com.pl/index-en

any possiblity to make similiar fire in KM? Tutorial maybe? i know its multiple-image-based but... there are some Perlin Noise effects... maybe any1 of you have seen something (actionScripted) similiar before...

cheers

[blanius]

don't think that was done in flash I'm betting it's FLV though the CPU usage was huge on that. Like 50%

[this.Alex]

as i thought its just lots of animated images bitmap,jepg,gif and they are all put togeater to make it work.

It would be realy hard to make that only using action script.

[tmoore935]

Originally Posted by blanius

don't think that was done in flash I'm betting it's FLV though the CPU usage was huge on that. Like 50%

I have an old flash 5 macormedia file that does something similar to what this.alex wants. I do not know how to covert it from the old ../ syntax to make it fit in flash 8. I ll post it if you want to try at it.

[tmoore935]

Here are a few

[blanius]

Here's what I'd do.
Get WAX from http://debugmode.com and use particle effects and make a video of the fire effect.

Then convert that to FLV and import it.

http://bretlanius.com/flash/firerain.html

[ant_Z]

hey Tim, fire.fla from your collection seems to be the nicest one. after what youve said, i decided to analise it one more time, and now i get it - its frame based, sure, but... the frames fade each other. thats why the fire looks so smooth. here my version (made from orginal files)... it doesnt look so cool (multiple fades cause CPU slowing down) but shows how it is (i hope) constructed:

P.S.

Bret, your link seems to be dead...

[blanius]

Link check. There might be slight delay as it loads FLV but it's progressive so should start playing pretty quick.

[ant_Z]

in Opera and FF it loads and loads and loads, then in Opera it still loads, in FF gives me something like "Connection terminated by remote server", and in IE: http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/7391/komunikatus2.jpg

[tmoore935]

Originally Posted by ant_Z

hey Tim, fire.fla from your collection seems to be the nicest one. after what youve said, i decided to analise it one more time, and now i get it - its frame based, sure, but... the frames fade each other. thats why the fire looks so smooth. here my version (made from orginal files)... it doesnt look so cool (multiple fades cause CPU slowing down) but shows how it is (i hope) constructed:

P.S.

Bret, your link seems to be dead...

Were did you get the images from to do what you did?

[tmoore935]

Originally Posted by blanius

Here's what I'd do.
Get WAX from http://debugmode.com and use particle effects and make a video of the fire effect.

Then convert that to FLV and import it.

http://bretlanius.com/flash/firerain.html

I don't get this. How did you make the fire, rain, clouds? And then you converted it to flv? And it seems to have a transparent background.

[blanius]

Wax has pretty decent particle effects, this created a video that I converted to FLV.

The video is a sample file that comes with WAX, Wax will also output to swf but if you try that you'll get huge file.

[ant_Z]

Were did you get the images from to do what you did?

I just downloaded orginal SWF file and imported it to KM. Then KM extracted these pictures from orginal SWF.

[ant_Z]

And what bout link - i just chceked it one more time, and seems that i cant enter even Bret's home page... that is really strange.

[tmoore935]

Originally Posted by ant_Z

And what bout link - i just chceked it one more time, and seems that i cant enter even Bret's home page... that is really strange.

I can see brets link in IE

[ant_Z]

as always something is wrong at mine