{"id":56,"date":"2011-12-17T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T12:48:00","slug":"animated-sparks-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Animated Sparks Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our past lessons we described in detail how to make perfect snow animations. However its flexible settings allow far-reaching, completely unexpected results. This lesson will show how to make hot spark effect using frozen snow objects.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"border\" value=\"1\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GDt4y7gPwRw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GDt4y7gPwRw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" border=\"1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For this effect I chose a dark background that will emphasize the sparks. When your image is loaded in your DesktopPaints\u2019 animation editor, click the \u201cAdd animation\u201d button and add the Snow 1 object. (In the first column, double click Standard Objects &gt; Weather &gt; \u201cSnow 1\u201d.)<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snow1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-81\" title=\"Add snow\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snow1-300x163.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snow1-300x163.gif 300w, http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snow1.gif 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far it doesn&#8217;t look like sparks, but we need to change a few parameters to fix the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Set the Size parameter to 5, the Color to red, the Blending mode to Overlay, the Direction to 90, and Amplitude to 100. Easy, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our past lessons we described in detail how to make perfect snow animations. However its flexible settings allow far-reaching, completely unexpected results. This lesson will show how to make hot spark effect using frozen snow objects. For this effect I chose a dark background that will emphasize the sparks. When your image is loaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies","category-tip-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}