Today, we have another Active Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you fancy delving deep into Bitmaps and Displacement Maps, then you’ll love this tutorial; Adam Jackett’s first for Activetuts+.
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Learn how to use bitmap noise to create and animate effects like TV static, clouds, a waving flag, and heat haze. Using the BitmapData class we’ll be looking at the noise and perlinNoise functions to generate the effects, then with the DisplacementMapFilter class we’ll create the wave effects.
One thing we’re going to do is keep things reusable. I prefer writing classes with the intent that I’ll be using them again in the future, whether I know I will or not. There have been countless times where I’ve needed something that I’d already written and simply needed to import the class and tweak some settings. In this tutorial we’ll end up writing some classes that get used in other classes. We’re not extending these classes, just using instances of them, you’ll see what I mean when you check out the tut..
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