ExplodeBitmap transition effect

This is a simple class I created for some transition effect. It’s really simple, but the effect is cool.

I’m basically taking any displayObject and creating a grid of bitmap copies of it. then animating them with BetweenAS3 tween engine (if you haven’t heard of it, it’s worth checking out — really fast and clean engine from LibSpark). I’m planning on decoupling the animation from the grid creation, so you could create different animations with the segments (or tie them in with a particle system), so that might be coming soon.

To use it, all you need to do call it like this:

new ExplodeBitmap(sprHolder, explodingSpr, widthSegments, heightSegments, smoothing);

here’s what it looks like (with randomized segment width and height):

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