An ambitious project

for my final project that involves the combination of 3 of our past projects...ive decided to re-create a desktop in flash...that when the user clicks on the icons...they do random things that arent funtional and dont really serve a purpose....so i will be tinkering with icons on the desktop and how they work and what they do for the viewer visually. One other project that kind of incorporates what i might be going after is this video called animator vs. animation.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=X8orofVRIlU

the animation tinkers with the desktop icons and i would really like to do the same type of thing. It will look like one is navigating through a real desktop...but once the icons are clicked on it will be obvious that this desktop doesnt do what is expected of it.

Finished project 3 "the randomator"

This is my finished project of the random still life generator...i learned a lot through this project that i hope to use later on down the road. Fun project over

http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/classes/at350/mtmalon/random.swf

I wouldve liked to do more with it, but due to scripting abilities and a time deadline this is what ive come up with and i am still happy with the results.

Scripting

Over the past week ive been developing and refining my project. I had finally decided to create a random still life generator. I have 7 or 8 objects on the screen that will randomly change position based on a random integer assigned to a variable. The objects are only randomly changing their x-coordinate on the plane; they do not change their y-coordinate at all because that type of project would include many many lines of advanced scripting that i dont think i am ready for yet. The scripting involved in this project could be considered minimal to scripting in some other projects ive seen so far, but one has to start somewhere. I have gathered an enormous amount of information with will be valuable for future projects. One of these skills is the knowing how to assign random numbers to a place holder then using the number in that place holder later on in the project. I am pretty satisfied with the progress ive made on this project and i believe it looks pretty good. If i knew more about scripting i might have been able to do a little more with it, but i think for the first project that really involves more than 20 lines of scripting, it's not bad at all.