Comments on: Using the Displacement Filter in Adobe Flash

By: TeeBee

TeeBee — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:53:08 +0000

Only wanted to commented how valuable this site is. This coding tutorial worked well for me. However, in the coding example, line 2 does appear to have a syntax error. The parameters that are sent (line 2 in point 6 Create the Displacement Filter), appear in the image to be separated by periods instead of commas. However, when viewing it in the magazine issue(November/December 2008), it is clear that these are commas. I only noticed, because i write in other software languages, and the typical syntax when passing parameters is to separate them by commas. Outside of that, i had no problems with this code. Ran it in Flash CS4 without a hitch. (Okay, well i made some simple mistakes that had to get cleaned up….before it would execute correctly).

By: DaveC

DaveC — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:45:45 +0000

I get an error stating 1120: Access of undefined property photo in line 15.

By: DaveC

DaveC — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:43:31 +0000

photo.filters = (dmf);

By: Marotzke

Marotzke — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:53:07 +0000

This worked fine for me, thanks for sharing! Very flexible …

By: senapati

senapati — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:19:22 +0000

Thanks a ton; this is very neat. There’s a lot to explore with filters such as this. I tried this with other waters, and the ripples do look good.
Thing with any graphics API is the need of not having to know how everything works.

By: Monica

Monica — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:12:48 +0000

This worked beautifully for me! Thanks so much.

By: victor

victor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:50:45 +0000

this ROCKS!… thanks, as usual, for a great tutorial. Took 10 seconds to swap in some other ocean photos and it worked equally well. Great!

By: Bart

Bart — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:45:28 +0000

working like a charm,
thanks for the tut

By: john

john — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:46:34 +0000

why don’t you at least enlarge the image of showing the script in line 1. It’s too small and I can’t read all of it. The other lines containing the script are enlarged enough. If I can’t get the first line the entire script is a waist of time and whon’t work.

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:35:51 +0000

sorry I should have added…
var dmf:DisplacementMapFilter = new DisplacementMapFilter( bmd , new Point(0 , 0) , 1 , 2 , 10 , 60);

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:33:53 +0000

Hi Laurel,

Change your points for commas between the parenthesis , that should solve the problem…

By: Laurel Hale

Laurel Hale — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:33:41 +0000

That error points to this line of code:

var p1:Point = new Point(0, 0);

Any ideas?