Making flex smoke!! (smoke generator for flex)
I have been away in Ruby on rails land for the past few weeks so last night I decided to jump back into flex for a play. Man I love playing in AS3. So I was looking at WonderTouch's Particle Illusion and thought that would be cool! So I whipped up a quick particle engine and made some smoke.
The result was ok, but the engine needs tome more work/optimisiations. And unfortunately AS3 just isnt fast enough to animate it that well. I have the smoke rising at a frame rate of about 5fps. What does it look like?
I always hate releasing something that isn't finished, but that being said I hardly find the time to finish stuff when doing little play things like this. Anyway it will look alot better after I implement a few changes I came up with and then I will post the flex movie in all its CPU cooking glory. Expect eternal beta release soon!
UPDATE – I figure I might wait for Apollo (its gotta be real soon now) so I can make a flex rip off of disco Smoke and all! Muh hwa huh hahaha
Sorry guys, My bandwidth got all chewed up, but seeing the month was going to end I thought I would wait instead of paying for more.
You should have enough power in AS 3.0 to animate it.
take a look at http://www.finitestateautomata.org/.
Alias’s did this in AS 2.0, so re-writing in AS 3.0 should be a bit faster. He presented this stuff for use this month at LFPUG. There’s some source here http://www.lfpug.com/smoke-fire-and-water-creating-realistic-procedural-bitmap-effects/ and the video should be up soon.
Also just to get it straight in my mind, this has nothing to do with Flex right?
Yo, send me an email, I can mirror for you.
Mmmm… particles…
Youh… I can also mirror
Hahaha Tink your right, AS3 Smoke it is…..just made in flex builder….but I will put a button in there so I can use the F word! lol.
Cheers to JesterXL and Parker for the mirror offer…..Good fullas, have emailed ya!
Thank You! I’m smoking with…