Flash: Water, Waves
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:23 pm
Hi. Do any of you Flash gurs have any tips for making nice water/waves in Flash? I need a tileable top view of small waves for a short I am trying to put together. The opening scene is a flyover of shallow sea heading to an island. Since the waves will be seen on the flyover and in the front of several shots (action takes place on the beach) I want something decent.
I spent several hours this weekend trying to use shape tweens and trying to figure out how to animate gradients and so on but the results weren't good enough. I can cycle a simple wave mving across the movie clip but results so far haven't been nice enough so figured I'd ask.
The flyover is probably only 10-12 seconds but as mentioned the waves will be visible in parts of other shots so I want to achieve something reasonably nice -or at least not distractingly ugly and mechanical.
Any help appreciated.
I spent several hours this weekend trying to use shape tweens and trying to figure out how to animate gradients and so on but the results weren't good enough. I can cycle a simple wave mving across the movie clip but results so far haven't been nice enough so figured I'd ask.
The flyover is probably only 10-12 seconds but as mentioned the waves will be visible in parts of other shots so I want to achieve something reasonably nice -or at least not distractingly ugly and mechanical.
Any help appreciated.
