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 )