How to Create a Ripple Effect

[Miphisto]

Its all in the tutorial.

** NOTE ** You need basic knowledge and understanding of flash in order to understand the tutorial. Most people will not understand it/ or get it to work properly i presume. Thats why i explained how it works first in the tutorial just incase you might mess up you can understand why it's not working.

The Ripple Tutorial (http://www.swfup.com/file/10025)

P.S Ya i will make a better tutorial with pictures and actual graphics later, heres just the quicky, there is an example at the end. (The tutorial is 3 frames long lol). And you'll notice my example is like 8 differen't colours, thats because the more detailed your backround is, the more the effect will stand out (this doesn't mean you need a billion colours, it can be 1 shade of grey with lots of cracks or details in the wall and make it look good).

**Edit** Heres one that steiner made as a test recently. Its not that hard =).
http://www.swfup.com/file/10026

[Steyene]

yay I'm famous.... Nah seriously though it is nice and easy to follow good job..
Man I miss the rep system.

[Gavel]

Nice tutorial, Miphisto. Would've worked with a few screenshots,but I still understood.

I kinda figured the ripple effect had something to do with masking. Just didn't really know exactly how to go about doing it. I guess I can use this knowledge to do that inverting colors thing like with Oblivious's RHG fight with Jcamelo.

I didn't really know about the actionscript way of doing it, though. Could you tell me about it? Is it any better than this method?

[Miphisto]

I've seen this ripple effect done one other time, and thats in the Castle series with the invisable tentacles. I don't know if Oscar uses AS but you can do it with AS. I'm just not sure on how to go about that.

And i plan on making a better tutorial with screen shots and better graphics + more interactivity.

[Poutine Salad]

More screenshots, less huge paragraphs.

[axerman1001]

It was a good tut but it could of done with a few pictures.