clouds fitting + animating...

I am ..... Stuck on this. I have this cloud picture. After some work, it fits pretty good but.....Ya, could be a LOT better. Also......Is there anyway I can acheive the effect of fast moving clouds...(animating). If anyone has some catchy gizmo for this...It would Help me a LOT.....Anyone who helps me sufficient enough can get 10000 ad views on my site for free :D (which is not much)(whenever it gets up).........


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view it repeat:
http://www20.brinkster.com/amplifieddesign/Index.html

view it alone:
http://www20.brinkster.com/amplifieddesign/background.jpg


edit, to view it alone...u gotta go to index.html then type in background.jpg

I have never come across an animated background that wasn't part of a flash movie.


Try animating the clouds (which will be very hard to do), and save it as an animated gif.

That may work.

How can I make it fit together perfectly though?

Hrm... that is just waaaay too hard to explain... and well really really hard to even do, seeing as clouds are variable objects...

Hmm, the whole fact tha the background tiles together is going to make an animation a lot harder. But if I were to take a stab at animating it, it might be an idea to make a lot of dark streaks with the airbrush tool and then just have those move across. I have never tried this, but it might work....

What about having some lightning(not like a line) Like when clouds are covering it and it just brightens up. A lot like you see when tornados are out. The animation would include a lot of math with tiling. The sides each would be controlled. Right would fit with left. Top " " " bottom. Then going in it would repeat, yes?

I have thought about this for a while, and this is what i think, there is no way to have the clouds "flow", but instead, why not have one cloud image, that is centralized within a larger canvas?

If you animate that, it may just help you acheive this.

I thought this is completely possible.
If you have a square animation.
The left pixel would be the same as the line left to it in the last frame.
Then vise versa with right.
It would look like a box exploding with pixel lines moving....Wouldn't that work?

Not if it were animated.

Can I make it part of a flash movie then? and use an absolutely positioned -1 z-index to make it seem a background? I am dull at flash.

If you do that, then you will have to make a very large cloud image that is animated, and put it into the flash file - not an easy task.


I presume that you are probably looking to do something like www.2advanced.com have done.


Your best shot is a digital camera, and pointing it to the heavens.

Sorry, it's loading now... :rolleyes:

http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/cbch21/TEST/BGscroller.html

not bad. It looks kinda cheesy, but it'll do :D

Hey, anyone played WarCraft III b.net?
wonder where those backgrounds are stored? I may just have to open the mpq :cool: