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« on: November 04, 2006, 07:21:17 AM »

Hey guys, I need help finding a movie clip that has a looping cloud motion effect.   I have a cockpit of a fighter jet in first-person view and I want it to appear to be in motion with the clouds moving toward the viewer....I hope this makes sense and I think it does!

I would imagine that making this movie clip (cloud animation) would be a pain in the butt and why re-invent the wheel when someone else probably already did that.

Any ideas, your help is appreciated!  Yep
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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2006, 12:34:18 PM »

OK, I still need help with this one.....somebody probably knows where to find this or how to make it.... Help
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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2006, 09:05:38 PM »

Here's something you might like. Adjusting the speed or size or adding horizontal movement is no problem.

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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2006, 05:19:28 AM »

Not bad, although that one is so short it will probably be hard to loop...

any other examples or possibly how to make it myself?
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« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2006, 07:14:04 AM »

It can be any length you want it.

To make it yourself, just do a motion tween in Flash enlarging the size of the clouds layer at whatever speed you'd like.
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« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2006, 09:20:36 AM »

You make it sound easy, but I think for what I want, to make it look cool, I will need a better description of how to go about that...

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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2006, 06:18:47 PM »

OK, someone has to know something about complex flash animation, such as realistic cloud animation....either how to create it or where to find it!
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« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2006, 06:58:19 AM »

OK guys, I've tried to do this based on some good ideas I've seen (Thanks Randy T!)....but I'm running into a wall, here's what I did:

I created about 5 cloud images in Fireworks with a Gaussian blur effect, they look good....then I exported them into Flash MX (not 2004 btw) and I messed around with zooming the cloud images in, rotating them, and fading them out when they got too close, at which point the next image would be zooming in, rotating, and ultimately fading out......the plan was to use these 5 images with the zoom and fade effect and loop them without being too noticeable....I wanted it to look very real.

Here's the problem.....since I imported these gif's and they have a background with the same color as my flash stage (sky blue), when the images zoom, rotate, and "pass by" each other, you can see the image outline, the square outline of the imported image, and it's noticeable when they pass each other....if I could get rid of this annoyance, I would have the perfect cloud effect, but I don't know how?  any ideas?

I did try setting the image background in FW to transparent, but then when you export the images to Flash you just get "solid white" square images.....HELP!!!   Confused
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