Water Reflection Effect

Timeline:

If you are using this effect on the timeline you can easily set the parameters in the component inspector inside of Flash 8 or Flash CS3 (what is a component inspector?).

To see what results you get from changing any of these options please click Try Yourself and play around with the seetings.

ActionScript:

Below the parameter options for this effect.

Property	Type	Description
waveHeight	Number [read / write] Min: 0.1 Max: 10	Sets the height of the waves in the mirror image
color	Number [read / write]	Sets the color the mirror image will multiplied with
refreshEveryFrame	Boolean [read / write]	If true, the filter will redraw every frame (i.e. for video)

Below the methods for this effect.

Method	Parameter	Description
init()	target_mc:MovieClip, wave:Number, color:Number, refreshEveryFrame:Boolean	See underneath how to use the init method
removeFilter()	none	Stops the generated animation and sets the TargetMovieClip visible

Example:

// attach filter on stage
var waterFilter:MovieClip = this.attachMovie("ReflectionEffectAS2", "ReflectionEffectAS2", 1);

// init the filter with parameter
waterFilter.init(img1_mc, 5, 0xFF0000);

The example files delivered with the filter contain ActionScript examples.