Scripted Grass For Banners / Games etc. Swishmax 4

Here is a simple way of generating random grass for banners etc using swishmax 4.

First Of All.

Open swishmax 4 and set you movie properties to the following, width = 553 height = 156 and frame rate to 25, background colour = whatever you want.

download the following grass *.emf vector

and import into swishmax 4 using the import Vector. 

download: Grass vector (1.40KB) added: 02/04/2011 clicks: 69 description: Grass clump vector for swishmax 4 *.emf format.

Step.1

Once you have imported the grass vector into swishmax 4, group it as a movieclip and name it grass_2, add the following script to the movieclip, make sure the transofrm point is bottom center 

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onFrame (1) { this._yscale=randomRange(60,140); this._y=Stage.height; }

On Scene_1 add the following code.

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onFrame (1) { amount=Stage.width/30; for (blade=0; blade<amount; blade++) { duplicateMovieClip(_root.grass_2, "grass_2"+blade, blade); grass_2._x=30*blade; } }

thats all their is to it. press Ctrl+t to test in player

export as swf 6 onwards.