Actionscript Effect?

[TheBigCheese]

I need a way so that I can mimic the effect sort of like the Ghostbusters sucking a ghost with their proton packs.

Basically the sprite needs to stretch towards a point but with increasing speed, if that makes any sense.

Any ideas?

[ilike2]

try looking up 'flash particle system'.

[attunedesigns]

Gosh i love effects. My vote is for DisplacementMap effects on this one. Hold please....

http://attunedesigns.com/ghostbuster-flash-effect/


I think its clear my skills are not in ILLUSTRATION.

[dudeqwerty]

I had the idea of a pinching DM filter also. Well done for being bothered to make it.

[TheBigCheese]

Wow! That's exactly what I need! I'll look into the DisplacementMap, then.
Thanks!

[attunedesigns]

Im always bothered.

[TheBigCheese]

May I ask how exactly you got the Displacement Map to do that?

The tutorials I've found really only discuss things like magnifying effects.

[attunedesigns]

I've updated it to show the displacement map. Basically how it works is that pixels are shifted according to the x component color and y color (in this case red and green respectively). The original image is shifted by ((red channel - 128) * (scaleX of displacement map filter))/256. Its in the documentation if you want to study and experiment. Definitely worth the time, its a powerful little feature.

[attunedesigns]

Another method would employ drawTriangles (Flash Player 10) and more in-depth math. Great demo here: http://wonderfl.net/code/b8ec2e71553...fa2e94c8363cfc