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Twinkling Star Flash Effect

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Twinkling Star Flash Effect

I created the twinkling star effect used in the above flash movie by creating a star shape movie clip. Then writing a little actionscript that changes the alpha value of the star movie clip to a random amount between 100% ( Visible) - 0% (Invisible).

The twinkling effect is achieved by the script being executed continually, changing the alpha state of the movie clip at a predefined speed. In the above example I set the speed to 9, but you can set it anywhere between 1 (Slowest) to 10 (Fastest).

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