And because this post was not up-to-date, I’ve remove some of the links to sites with patterns because they didn’t exist anymore. That’s also the reason that I had to update the Flash file.
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Another experiment, to use external images for background patterns.
But there was no need to start from zero, so here are some tutorials that I used:
both tutorials were used in the experiment.
(I had to update this file because of broken links: this is version 2)
Get the source files here:
The .ZIP file contains:
+ tiledBackground
+ deploy
- AC_RunActiveContent.js
- tiledBackground_v02.html
- tiledBackground_v02.swf
+ source
- tiledBackground_v02.fla
Borrowed some seamless background pattern from Squidfingers
pattern_021.gif
pattern_095.gif
pattern_111.gif
pattern_131.gif
pattern_141.gif
But you can find your own patterns on the internet, examples of site with seamless background patterns:
http://www.wonderbackgrounds.com/
http://www.cameradio.tk/tiles1.htm
root2art.co.uk
http://backgroundsarchive.com/tiles/wood.php?page=2
I used http://www.neopets.com/backgrounds_tiled.phtml in the flash source.
But you can use any image from the internet!
(Need some help: find “tiled background” with google )
7 replies on “Flash experiments: tiled background”
It’s any way to download the .fla from that experiment?
Not yet, give me some time and I will fix it.
I see that one of the sites I use in the experiment is not working any more. 🙁
I will fix that first and make it possible to download the source.
Thank you for your answer… When it’s ready say something. 🙂
Hi Matthijs,
I think that your works / experiment are very good but the Tiles Background
is very very well!!!!
Can you send me your project or is a private project? I visited the
Kirupa’s link but -unfortunally- I can’t load external (remote) images and
use these as a pattern.
Thanks a lot, Loris
How do you load the external image?
Do you use duplicateMovieClip or you load each image with loadMovie? In
this second case I think the FlashPlayer crush if the Stage is very wide.
Hi Loris,
I made a link so you can download the source. I hope that will answer all your questions!
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