Animating Gradient Actionscript 3 Experiment

I have been working on a project that requires a gradient background to shift colors dynamically. I usually am not too big of a fan of gradients in general, so I had never spent too much time with them in Flash. After a few minutes of reading through other people’s experiences however, I found it to be quite easy.

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The animation is a continual tween from one gradient to another - I find it very addictive to watch. Big thanks to David Nelson for the basic color tweening logic. After coding this up AS3 within Flash 9, I decided to finish it up with Flex 2 as I had never really given the app a fair shot. After a few minutes of tutelage from a colleague of mine, I wish I would have taken the plunge a long time ago. The whole process in Flex was so much more integrated and helpful. It really made the coding process fun tolerable. Kudos to Macromedia/Adobe putting out such a great product.

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The Discussion

9 Comments on “Animating Gradient Actionscript 3 Experiment”

nice!


I am already confused. But very beautiful.


Thanks for the comments guys - very appreciated. :)


Simple, but nice to watch :)


i still don´t how did u do it.
can u explain me how, please

i canñy download the flex project

thanx!


Thanks! this was useful!


That’s very nice, I am trying to do something similar in Flash(as3), but with changing alpha channel, any ides?


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can’t download the flex project


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