I would like to recreate the twinkling stars animation as shown on this page
for the 3D Spray Brush Tool:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/...&promoid=DRIMV

How is the randomness of the twinkling achieved? When I made a movie clip of a
star that dissolved in and out, all the stars pulsated simultaneously. Is there
a specific tutorial for that? I'd hate to think that Adobe pulled some sort of
sleight of hand to fool us into thinking it's so easy.

Also, I want to do a "Star Wars" opening credits type of animation, where the
type crawls in perspective. I tried crawling type (as a movie clip) vertically
inside of a movie clip that was angled back, but in the SWF, the type if
flat-on. What's up with that?

Please help. Thanks.

Yes, inside the star animation, so that each instance will play from a random start point.

Weird, I just blogged something like this. It isn't nearly as random though,
but just another option -


http://flashthusiast.com/2008/12/10/...tween-instance
-new-motion-as3-fancy-jsfl-profit/

The stars still pulsate at the same rate.

The groups will, yes. There are three different pulsations/flickers in the file
above. You can make as many groups as you can handle though, just make sure to
set the random ease to different numbers in each tween. I chose to do 3
different ones, you could do 50 or whatever amount.