Morphing Menu

After some requests from readers of this blog. I’ve decided to port my Explode class, that was written a while ago in AS2, to AS3, and while doing so, I also made some improvements to it as well.

The main difference is that you can use different functions separately now. For example you can use Explode.generate function to get the multicolor map and then Explode.generateParticlesBMPsFromMap to get the array of bitmaps and their positions..

This allows to separate the color map creating part of the script - which is the most CPU heavy from generation of particle BitmapData. This means you can effectively “cache” and reuse color map for multiple DisplayObjects..

Now,  if you’re reusing particle map, this allows for creating some interesting effects such as morphing via particle flow.. 

I created an example of morphing menu prototype that utilises this functionality.

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