What is it?
A simple way to add snow like the example above to any logo or image of your choosing.
What are its features?
- VERY fast and lightweight! Especially compared to other snow effects on ActiveDen.
- Easy to share presets
- Unique look and fully customizable features:
- snow color
- snow spawned per second
- snow bounce (the times the snow flake ‘bounces’ before it finally settles on a surface)
- snow mass
- snow opacity (based on mass)
- random snow opacity (ignores mass)
- swing motion (a’la Browian motion)
- gravity
- wind (based on user mouse position)
- snow falling settings: size, blur size, blur quality
- snow fallen settings: size, blur size, blur quality
- stepping (used for achieving better precision in simulation)
- …and other
- Standalone DEBUG MODE (see above) enables you to quickly customize your own personal feel and look of the effect and export it to XML , along with providing you with the crucial information on the current performance of your effect. Please note, that your final product won’t have the panel on the right side visible. This is only for your won testing purposes!
- Easy export of your current settings (‘New XML ’ button)
- Extensive documentation on the relationships between properties and their effects.
- Full help and support online via e-mail or my ActiveDen profile.
How do I set it up?
See documentation.
So what do I get exactly?
- You’ll get two projects with source code of the debug mode, and standard mode in Flash CS4 ++ and FlashDevelop.
- STANDARD MODE a final version of the effect that you will use on your site, /with source code.
- DEBUG MODE has everything final mode has, plus user interface controls for testing purposes (you see it on this page) /with source code.
- Documentation.