Waving Flag 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, Flash CS3 or Flash CS4 (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
speed	Number [read / write] Min: 1 Max: 100	Speed of wind
strength	Number [read / write] Min: 1 Max: 100	Strength of distortion
angle	Number [read / write]	Sets the rotation of the animation
shadow	Boolean [read / write]	shadow on the flag
granularity	Number [read / write] Min: 1 Max: 100	Granularity of the distortion
layers	Number [read / write] Min: 1 Max: 3	layers of distortion
refreshEveryFrame	Boolean [read / write]	If true, the filter will redraw every frame (i.e. for video)

Example:

// attach filter on stage
var ff_component:MovieClip = this.attachMovie("WavingFlagEffectAS2", "WavingFlagEffectAS2", 1);

// init the filter with parameter
ff_component.init(img_mc, 40, 50, 0, "left", true, 25, 1, false);

The example files delivered with the filter contain ActionScript examples both for AS2 and AS3.