Hello Everyone...

[Vector]

Hey, I guess you should be able to tell that I'm new here. :)
I've been using actionscript.org for quite some time now, but never even realised that there was a forums section here until the other day, so I signed up :cool: .

A little about me:-
I'm Australian
I started using flash about 3 months ago
I've been programming with other things (namely Visual Basic and it's predecessor QBasic) since about 5 years of age (now 16)

With my semi-recent discovery of flash, I found that I have a love-affair with particles :D. Here's some of my works... - All from scratch, all my own. The first 3 i'm actually giving away in an actionscripting competition way over at www.biteycastle.com on the message boards, under actionscript.

This is a system i developed, my "Fish" as i like to call them...
I initially made them so they'd try to 'attack' the mouse all the time but i'm really loving some of the adverse effects of my coding. :D
Meh Fishies (http://www.vector-sector.cjb.com/competition/First%20Jan05.html)

This is a bubble particle generator, nothing too fancy...
Bubbles (http://www.vector-sector.cjb.com/competition/Second%20Jan05.html)

This is a very cool pinwheel style thing, I saw another thing which kinda inspired me to make this...
Pinwheel (http://www.vector-sector.cjb.com/competition/Third%20Jan05.html)

And this last one is something I whipped up last night, took about 1 1/2 hours.... A little new-years gift for the guys at brackenwood:
Fireworks!!! (http://www.vector-sector.cjb.com/fireworks.swf)
(You may want to size the window to about 550x400 otherwise these might run slow)

Pleased to meet'chya :)

[splict]

very cool stuff, Vector! Great to have you aboard. :D Maybe you'd like to help bring some life back to the Just for Kicks challenge board with some coding like that. :)

[Vector]

very cool stuff, Vector! Great to have you aboard. :D Maybe you'd like to help bring some life back to the Just for Kicks challenge board with some coding like that. :)

Lol, you wouldn't believe it, I was just thinking something like that :D
I thought, "Hey, that looks cool," went in there and all the threads were so old i couldn't see any :eek: :( ......

Who's in charge of that board?

[CyanBlue]

Welcome, Vector... :)

Appreciate your help at the forum... and you've got very cool particle systems... :)

[Vector]

NP man, just hollar if you need anything ;)

And thanks :D

[pom]

Hey Vector,

Those fishes look great :) Kinda reminds me of a submission to the good ol' Bit contest:// ZEMAX - Bit contest
_quality="LOW";
for (var i=0; i<=(NBC=10); i++) this.createEmptyMovieClip("C"+i,i+1);
for (var i=0; i<(NB=30); i++) {
this.createEmptyMovieClip("M"+i,1000 + i+1);
this["M"+i].lineStyle(2,(this["M"+i].rgb=
0x010000 * (210+Math.round(30*Math.random())) +
0x000100 * (210+Math.round(30*Math.random())) +
210+Math.round(30*Math.random())
)
-0x202020);
this["M"+i].lineTo(-5, 0);
this["M"+i]._x = 550 * Math.random();
this["M"+i]._y = 400 * Math.random();
this["M"+i]._rota = 2 * Math.PI * Math.random();
this["M"+i]._speed = 10 + 10 * Math.random();
this["M"+i]._angle = 0.13 * Math.PI * (0.2 + Math.random());
}
this.onEnterFrame = function () {
this["C"+((index<NBC)?(index=index+1):(index=0))].clear();
for (var i=0; i<NB; i++) {
this["C"+index].lineStyle(1,this["M"+i].rgb);
this["C"+index].moveTo(this["M"+i]._x, this["M"+i]._y);
var a=Math.atan2(_root._ymouse - this["M"+i]._y, _root._xmouse - this["M"+i]._x) - this["M"+i]._rota;
this["M"+i]._rotation = (180 / Math.PI) * (this["M"+i]._rota += Math.max(-this["M"+i]._angle, Math.min(this["M"+i]._angle, ((a>Math.PI)?(a-2*Math.PI):a) )) );
this["C"+index].lineTo((this["M"+i]._x = this["M"+i]._x + this["M"+i]._speed * Math.cos(this["M"+i]._rota)), (this["M"+i]._y = this["M"+i]._y + this["M"+i]._speed * Math.sin(this["M"+i]._rota)));
}
} Except he named it mosquitos :D

[stealthelephant]

i would go in for a new challenge

[senocular]

we still have that forum, right?

btw pom, you should disable similes :)

[jubei]

Hey, those fish are kickass.