Animating Gradient Actionscript 3 Experiment

27.03.07 @ 7:03 am

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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8 Responses to “Animating Gradient Actionscript 3 Experiment”

felix
March 27th, 2007 at 7:45 am

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nice!
kellie
March 27th, 2007 at 8:12 am

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I am already confused. But very beautiful.
somerandomdude
March 27th, 2007 at 10:29 am

Thanks for the comments guys - very appreciated.
Steve Tucker
March 28th, 2007 at 10:04 am

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Simple, but nice to watch
maria
April 30th, 2007 at 11:15 am

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

i canñy download the flex project

thanx!
Erno
July 31st, 2008 at 12:26 am

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Thanks! this was useful!
Ville
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:33 am

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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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