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Animated Snow. How was it made?


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Cloak amp; Dagger

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I guess I am posting this topic in the right place. [confused]

How was the animated snow that is being displayed on the forum created?

I have seen that falling effect on different websites and on egreetings. I would like to know how the animation is created. Also, what program was it created in? :)
 
Snow Flakes

Me too, me too! I would like to learn how this was done and if the code can be used in a website developed in FrontPage.
 
dunno

i could prob tell you guys if i knew what you were talking about
 
On the main page of this message board, where you see the snow flakes, click on 'View' in your browsers toolbar at the top. Scroll down to 'source' and click on that.

A text window will open. Scroll down til you find:
Snow Effect Script- By Altan d.o.o. (snow@altan.hr, http://www.altan.hr/snow/index.html)
* Visit Dynamic Drive (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/) for full source code
* Modified Dec 31st, 02' by DD. This notice must stay intact for use.
Click to expand...
You will find the snow javascript at the altan.hr website.

Doc
 
If you use Dreamweaver, I believe you can create this kind of effect using the "Timeline" feature. I've never used it myself, but just a pointer...
 
Mean Spirited or Jest?

Mikey-

I hope that your reply was in jest. Some of us are here to learn so, we openly admit that we don't know everything.

This is why we asked the question.
 
Snowflake Script

Thank you Doc. The script part I can handle. Just need to know how to create it and I didn't think about checking the script that way. It's been a while since I have done any of this.

Thanks again!
 
I agree, they look nice, but did any of you ever check out the CPU usage when you're on that particular page...

That's why I never use stuff like this on my web pages.
 
Yeah, there must be something different on my PC... but RAM... :D ... I have no clue why you think RAM has something to do with it [confused]
 
Actually yes, Josh has a point. And this is also why _i_ never use stuff like this also... normally. ;)

However... the piont about cpu usage i believe is based on the difference between an Athlon and a Pentium cpu. This is an educated guess; based on those meter results shown -- except i highly doubt the cpu would be working 100% all the time for this kind of thing. Unless you're running a fairly old cpu.

I have an Athlon myself so i know that Athlons do not have a cpu instruction set like Pentiums do (the new chips by AMD will have this though). When they are asked to do something, they put everything they have into doing it. And when needed, they lend power to other tasks -- i.e. for multi-tasking.
But Pentiums have an instruction set that tells the cpu how much power it can give to specific tasks. Which is why they react a little faster when a user is multi-tasking. And why they appear to run a little smoother when going from function to function.
And which is also why Athlon chips usually rate higher than Pentiums in most tests.

Anywho... this is a tad off topic. ;)

All i really wanted to say was that i usually don't use this stuff either, and that i can relate to Josh's point.

But it's Christmas time! :D 8}
 
the question is is why would you want it?
dhtml is the pits.......
if you wanna animate use flash..... create the snowflakes use a nice random drop script so it at least looks like snowflakes coming down and put it on your page so it opens over 100% on the browser and give it a transparent background so you can see and acess the links on the page....
simalar to those adverts that pop up that are animated in flash and are not sset in a window


anyway as you guessed i hate D (damn ) H (horrible T (tackie ) L (language)
 
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