{"id":15,"date":"2011-12-15T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T10:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-12-15T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T10:15:07","slug":"creating-animated-snow-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Creating Animated Snow Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson we will learn how to create a beautiful snow scene in DesktopPaint\u2019s animation editor.<\/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\/fWJeBNnZxNU?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\/fWJeBNnZxNU?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>First of all, we need an appropriate background image. A good image should not have hanging snowflakes, because it would spoil the final animation effect. I used this one with funny elves on it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snow11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-89\" title=\"Snow background\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snow11-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snow11-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snow11.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This image is colorful enough, so snow will be easily seen. Then we need to load our image into DesktopPaint\u2019s animation editor (through the Open menu or the \u201cChange background\u201d button) and click the \u201cAdd animation\u201d button. In the first column, double click Standard Objects &gt; Weather &gt; \u201cSnow 1\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><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=\"screenshot\" 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=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it! Your first snow animation is ready. Now you can save it in the format that your version of DesktopPaints\u2019 editor supports and post the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson we will learn how to create a beautiful snow scene in DesktopPaint\u2019s animation editor. First of all, we need an appropriate background image. A good image should not have hanging snowflakes, because it would spoil the final animation effect. I used this one with funny elves on it: This image is colorful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}