City Skyline Test | Depth Study

By Evan Mullins | Published: 6 February 2008
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Gives feel of perspective and depth by reacting to mouse movements. The effect is parallax, read more…
The city images are very choppy and ugly, I know, it’s just a test.

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Sample Actionscript. This in on one of the buildings which are separate movie clips. Adjust the equation for different effect.
The basic formula is as follows: this._x = _root._xmouse / (speed) + transform

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._x = _root._xmouse/7 - 50;
}

Update: Here’s a similar effect achieved by just negating the relation between the mouse and the building movie clips.

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._x = -_root._xmouse/7 - 50;
}

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