Sparkles follow a path

The easiest way would be to copy the 2 layers on frame 1 of the fla and paste these into a new symbol. You can then drag multiple instances of this symbol to the stage. You will need to be careful about slowing your swf down too much though, lots of instances will cause your movie to run very slowly especially on line. You could modify the script to limit the number of sparkles created, but this is a little more involved. Let me know if you need pointing in the right direction. Good luck

The reason it runs slow with 3 animations is that there are so many particles on the stage at the same time. The only way to make it run quicker is to minimise this.You could try commenting out these lines…

movingSparkle2 = this.attachMovie(“colouredSparkle”, “ss_”+sparkle, sparkle+101); (about line 51)

setParams(movingSparkle2); (about line 58)

This will bean that the path of sparkles is finer but it might look ok. You could also try making the particles fade quicker.

Finally you could remove the particles at a larger size, try increasing the number in this line…

if ( this._height < 4) (about line 110)

Hope one of these helps!

I have messaged you. Thanks

I’m glad you liked it, thanks for the comments

Hi there, I’m glad you like the file! It should be pretty simple to stop the rotation. If you go onto frame 1 and look in the actions you can search for the word ‘rotation’ (without the ’’). If you comment out (put // at the beginning of) the lines with rotation in this will stop it. I think there will be a couple of lines. If you are having problems with this then message me and I will tell you specifically which lines it is. Good luck!

Hi there, you have to pick up the movieclip and drag it so it’s over the path. It’s origin highlights to show it is snapped to the path. If you are still having problems email me through the site and I will give you more specific help then…

Thanks for the compliment I’m sure it can be easily modified not to use the random statement the sparkles will just be a bit less random. If you want you can email me your file and I will have a look at it for you. (I think you will need to send me a message through activeden for me to get your email address but do that and I will respond)

Thanks for the compliment! Sorry no AS3 version as yet. It’s on my to do list but I’m not quite there yet!