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When everything you see from your windows is snow falling for days it’s easily to find inspiration for new blog post You must become snow fan when you get few mild years of winter, but then, when one hits hard like this year with a lot of minus temperatures and icy roads everywhere, you easily change your favorite season.

In one of the posts published last month Flash Falling Snow Effect Animation I just scratched the surface of the subject. You could read about ways to make snow animations for yourself and right now I want to show more finished solutions if you don’t really feel good about programming and just want to get Flash snow animation for your website, blog, forum sidebar or whatever.

Magical Snow Falling Animation

With Magical snow falling animation you are free to change snowflakes size, snowflakes speed, snow time and sparse. This file, created by Benedusi Flash developer is only 2 Kb in published size, yet it’s everything you need to have some indoor winter.

Christmas Card Snow Animation

This older animation (created back in 2006 with Flash has been used many times as greeting card. You can send it to your clients or family. File includes animation of trees, sky and snow. You are free to custimize it with your own personal message.

Shakeable Snow Globe

This is one of my favorite animations, shakeable snow globe! The more you shake it snowflakes go more up in the air and effect is better. Author is Pdesignx and published size is just under 6 Kb. Code is written in ActionScript2.0.

Santa Claus Animation (AS2 - XML)

Last Flash animation I wanted to present here is snow related only, but it’s great - it’s Santa Claus Animation. Animation is long and and funny and awesome thing about it is that you can change final message text and / or you can include your image, company logo or whatever.

That’s all. Now you have list of good Flash Snow Animations to include in your future projects or send to your loved ones. If you find this post useful please share.

Thanks and Merry Christmas everyone !!!

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I really don’t understand myself why I don’t make more of these Flash animations. They are simple to create, I don’t even need to bother with as3.0, they are useful and with proper marketing they could be sold quite a lot.

Nevertheless, until I figure this out and discuss it with myself, here is Christmas Present Flash Animation by Mangustas.

Merry Christmas !!!

When it comes to image galleries you can always try something new because number of them created is raising every day like new flu spread.

You are not limited to Flash. Here is recently added FlowGallery, Flex 3D Image Gallery. Author is bartQ. This gallery can have as many images as you like. Supported image file formats are JPG and PNG. Navigation is available by using mouseclick, dnd and keyboard keys left and right. Using XML file provided you can change images and text. You can change various parameters yourself because code is well explained.

Code is written in ActionScript3.0 and Flex SDK versions 3.0.0 - 3.3.0. Published Flex Image Gallery size is 156 Kb. Nice 3D effect is done using Papervision.

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For a long time I wasn’t so much excited about some new Flash stock file as I am about this new fun Flash game Clever Frog. This is only the first portfolio item for author NE555, but really amazing one. Game opens with Flash8+ and it’s written in ActionScript 2.0. Game is only 47 Kb in size and contains 24 levels.

You can preview and play it online too. Here is how to play: “Click on a lotus leaf to make the frog jump to the leaf”. The previous leaf will then disappear. Continue jumping one by one until there are no leaves remaining to win that level. Frog cannot jump backwards or diagonal. It can only jump left, right and forwards”. Frog can also make small and big jumps.

Enjoy playing!

related posts:

_ Flash Aligned Menu V1
_ Flash Tweet Map Mashup
_ New XML Driven Flash Product Presentation
_ Advanced Flash XML Video Player
_ Flash Vector Globe Animation
_ Flashtory - Flash Photo Gallery
_ Flash Google Search - the real thing!

Winter is coming, at least to North hemisphere, thus once again everything related with winter, snow, snowflakes, Christmas and Santa will be in the focus. Bloggers like to have seasonal banners and animations on their blogs.

This is the reason why you should take a look at Hayleme’s AS3 / AS2 Falling Snow Effect Animation as a good choice to enhance your blog or even as a greetings e-card solution.

If you want to try and create your own animation you can find many helpful tutorials online, starting with Simple way to create vector snowflakes and when you’ve done with it, try to animate them using Flash Rain Effect and Flash Blurred Bubbles Effect.

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Very often in data visualization projects one needs different types of maps, whether it is World map, Europe or USA. You can create it from ground up or use already existing cheap stock solution.

This USA XML Interactive map (only $5) is the best one I could find out there. Check it out and test it for yourself, live example is available.

Author is Art101 and his entire portfolio is excellent.

“The Simple & Flexible XML Client Map is an easy to use file that let’s you place an unlimited amount of dots on a world map representing clients or anything else. The dots can be any size and any color and be placed anywhere, all controlled easy by XML . Tooltips can be on or off. The map and its contents scale up and down to fit the space provided as you place it in an HTML page. It will link out to a page you specify in the XML when you click on a client dot – this can also be disabled. The original size is 700×350.”

File created by Christian Kragh, Denmark based developer.

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The simple sound controller plays the songs in a playlist read from the xml file in order or shuffled according to the settings

It was was designed to be used embedded in html or standalone. It is highly customizable directly from the xml with quite a few options for such a simple file. Easy to use and a very good choice if you want to add a simple and easy to use music controller to your project.

The following options can be changed in the XML config file:
- all colors (text normal color, mouseover color, bars gradient colors)
- start paused on/off (if you want the player to start playing or paused)
- start buffering on/off (if you want the player to start buffering the first song even if it’s set to paused)
- playback volume
- shuffle (random) on/off (this also includes the first track)
- location for an unlimited number of songs in the playlist

Photoshop Design .psd file is also included along with all Flash sources.

Author: FLASHTORY

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author’s note:

“This is an fullscreen background image rotator tool. you can use this tool with xml file or Comma Separated image path.
– can use this tool as your html page background. set images from xml or comma separated image paths string.
- can use in your flash project. Drag and drop MovieClip to your stage and initialize, or create instance of BackgroundImage class.”

features:

* can rotate multiple images or only one image
* Can load PNG ,JPG,GIF images
* Resizable to any sizes
* Proportional scale fullscreen background images
* Transition time and transition type changable from xml
* Scaled image Horizontal Align(“left”,”right”,”center”) and Vertical Align(“top”,”bottom”,”middle”) setting from xml
* On resize image scale to fill your browser window