Particulator component 1.0.3
for Flash 8 and above, ActionScript 2 & 3
Easily create advanced particle system effects
The Particulator component lets you create high quality particle system effects in authortime. Visually compelling animations such as smoke, fire, sparkles, and 'fields' of particles can be made with a few mouse clicks! Choose movie clips you wish to use as particles, set appearance, physics and environment properties, and export your movie to see your particles in action! A custom UI panel is provided to give you a live preview of settings you choose before exporting your swf.See Tutorial below.
- Easy to use UI that provides preview before export
- Apply rotation, velocity, alpha, and other properties to particles
- Randomize certain properties to create variations in the particle field
- Create particle 'streams' that follow a motion path
- Choose your own movie clips to be used as particles
- QA approved by Adobe
- No coding needed!
Features:
- The Particulator component lets you create continuously animating particle systems in flash
- Four different emitter types provided that allow you to emit particles from a single point, or from a field
- Choose a variety of physical properties like life-span, velocity, rotation speed, gravity and more.
- Clear particles from the scene at any time
- Extensible. Write event handler functions in your particle movie clips to create custom behavior over the life of the particle.
- Use the custom UI to choose movie clips from the library to be used as particles
- Set a 'motion guider' to influence new particle velocities
- Create particles on any movie clip you specify as a 'stage'
- View documentation for a full list of capabilities
DOCUMENTATION: online help
With this package you get:
- Two fully documented Particulator components for Flash 8 and above, one each for AS2 and AS3
- ParticulatorSample.fla which has sample artwork to explain how the above animations are created
- Support and updates from flash extension.net
Free trial version available (ActionScript 2 only!):
Animations above created with the Particulator component. Click the arrows to see more previews!
The Particulator has a custom UI to let you preview physics and other properties.
| USAGE | Go to the Components Panel, expand the flashextension.net AS2 or flashextension.net AS3 node depending on which version of ActionScript you are using. Drag a Particulator component onto the stage. Set properties in ActionScript or via the custom UI Component Inspector. |
| HELP LOCATION | Help is located in the Flash Help Panel under 'flashextension.net - Particulator component'. |
| SAMPLE FILES | ParticulatorSample.zip contains sample files; you will be prompted to save this file when installing the component. |
| SYSTEM REQS. |    Flash 8; Windows or Mac |
| KEY WORDS | particle system particles generator physics |
