AnthonyKinson Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 File Name: Bouncy BlizzardFile Submitter: AnthonyKinsonFile Submitted: 28 Nov 2009File Updated: 02 Dec 2010File Category: Hooks and PluginsBouncy Blizzard Highly customizable cross browser snow script.FeaturesAdjust Character used for snow Adjust Snow Colour Adjust Snow Sticking (fallen snow stick to bottom of container) Adjust snow twinkling effect Members can change wind speed / direction Members can switch off the blizzard Define where the blizzard will show by Full Screen / ID String or DOM node refference PLUS... many more performance and control features! Demo: http://dev.bouncyservers.co.uk (i have localised the snow to my banner area) MERRY CHRISTMAS!Click here to download this file Link to comment
Alex K. Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Some of the snow seems to stick to the control banner at the top, but stopping and restarting the snow fixes it. Other than that, great job. :thumbsup: Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 Yeah, i'm not to sure why it does that Link to comment
RocketFoot Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Looks great! How can I localize the snow to my banner only? Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 in the settings, add the following to "Target Element"id='branding' :) Link to comment
RocketFoot Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 in the settings, add the following to "Target Element"id='branding' :) Worked fine! One other question...what is the "Snow Bottom" Setting for? I hope it lets the snow pile up, that would be a cool touch! Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted December 3, 2009 Author Share Posted December 3, 2009 the snow piles up if you have "snow sticking" turned on. Snow bottom is to adjust in pixels the "bottom" of the container. for example, if you used the id='branding' part in order to have it snow only in yoru logo area, but wanted the snow to land say 50 pixels above the bottom of the banner area, you would set "snow bottom" to 50 this is handy if you have a themed skin which has a thick border or styling at the bottom of the branding area, or if you want the snow full page but want it to land at a higher position. Link to comment
RocketFoot Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 the snow piles up if you have "snow sticking" turned on. Snow bottom is to adjust in pixels the "bottom" of the container. for example, if you used the id='branding' part in order to have it snow only in yoru logo area, but wanted the snow to land say 50 pixels above the bottom of the banner area, you would set "snow bottom" to 50 this is handy if you have a themed skin which has a thick border or styling at the bottom of the branding area, or if you want the snow full page but want it to land at a higher position. Oh, ok...I have sticky turned on, but it doesn't seem to pile up. Another odd thing is on my default theme...the snow lands about 25 pixels up from the bottom of the header, but works perfect on my other themes (all have the same size header) Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted December 3, 2009 Author Share Posted December 3, 2009 the 25 pixels below your banner area will have a different style id, use this id instead of id='branding' generally the snow will always fall from the top of the page and land at the bottom of the container. as for the snow piling up, it should land and stick to the bottom of the container, BUT it will "melt" away aswell when the limit of active snow is reached. you can raise the amount of snow that stays on screen before melting away in the settings, BUT rasing the values to have more snow on the screen can increase CPU load for viewers so adjust with caution. Link to comment
Olivier Turbis Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Just wanted to say I love the idea. Link to comment
tAPir Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Just wanted to say I love the idea.Me too :) I did read somewhere (unless I imagined it) that you were going to make the "Stop Snowing" setting cookie based so that it did not start snowing again when a user changes page. Any progress? or did I just imagine it? :) Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 yeah i'm going to look into it, i'm juggling between apps and mods at the moment, and i need to look into how i can actually use cookies to do this as i've not really used them in IPB mods before. Link to comment
TekMiL Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Thanks for this it is great! Is there any way to turn the control panel off at the top? Link to comment
Calvin39 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 How can we make the snow bigger please, its just too small, Thank you. Link to comment
Sean.M Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 The snow seems to sometimes freeze for me on firefox, I switch over to IE and it works fine, but whenever it reaches the main section of the forum it sorta just stops in its tracks until i move the mouse, basically as long as my mouse is in constant motion it works fine, but the second i stop moving my mouse it freezes in that section. until after a while it just jumps out. Its very odd since it was working fine the first few days i had it installed then suddenly started acting odd, even tried reinstalling the hook. That said however it does not happen all the time, many times it works perfectly fine, not sure why sometimes it does not. Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 Version 1.0.1 Has Been Released!v1.0.1 ChangesMembers can now enable and disable the snow permanently New Hook setting to enable or disable snow for guests Enabled Hook Check for future update checking :) Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 Just wanted to say I love the idea. Thanks :) Thanks for this it is great! Is there any way to turn the control panel off at the top? the actual panel no, other than uninstalling it, v1.0.1 has an option to completly disable the snow, but the panel remains incase members wish to switch it back on. How can we make the snow bigger please, its just too small, Thank you. Try a different character in the settings• should be fine, where as · can be rather small The snow seems to sometimes freeze for me on firefox, I switch over to IE and it works fine, but whenever it reaches the main section of the forum it sorta just stops in its tracks until i move the mouse, basically as long as my mouse is in constant motion it works fine, but the second i stop moving my mouse it freezes in that section. until after a while it just jumps out. Its very odd since it was working fine the first few days i had it installed then suddenly started acting odd, even tried reinstalling the hook. That said however it does not happen all the time, many times it works perfectly fine, not sure why sometimes it does not. This sounds like a CPU & Memory issues on your PC / Firefox. A few people have said that firefox has some memory issues sometimes, personally i have no problem with it but i'm running a high end pc with a phenom quad core cpu and 4 gig (2 x 2GB 1066) memory so its pretty hard for me to lag it out to test. Link to comment
Sean.M Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 A few people have said that firefox has some memory issues sometimes, personally i have no problem with it but i'm running a high end pc with a phenom quad core cpu and 4 gig (2 x 2GB 1066) memory so its pretty hard for me to lag it out to test. Well im running a quad 2.6ghz quad core with 6gig of ram, its only with firefox though, so ya maybe just something with how firefox handles it. Noticed with firefox the collapsing of forum sections is not always smooth also so must be more firefox than anything. In any case the new version looks good, glad we got an option to disable. Keep of the good work! Thanks Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 yeah your probably right, if your finding it's happening more frequently on pages with alot of content it could very well be the firefox memory issue. glad you like it :D Link to comment
BuddyKidd Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Did you misspell blizzard? Link to comment
Bry5012 Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 great addition, I love it and have added it to my site....great job! Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 Did you misspell blizzard? nah, a few people have asked this, its actually an Anagram "Bouncy Blizard" "Cozily Dun Barb" Cozily - meaning comfort (warmth oh house with the snow is comforting) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cozily Dun - as in the light grey / brown colour (the colour of the snow round here usually) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dun Barb - as in hook (its a hook) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/barb Link to comment
media Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I have posted something somewhere but i need to post here too i guess... Is there a language file we can translate the hook??? Thanks Link to comment
AnthonyKinson Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 Currently all the text is hard coded, i'll sort that in 1.0.2 ;) Link to comment
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