Snowflakes

Steve · December 29, 2021, 09:53:19 AM

Checked all events on your latest version and everything seems to be working fine without the "Append to <body> of the HTML page" checked.

jsx · December 31, 2021, 05:21:56 AM

@Chen Zhen

I have this modification installed in version 1.79 and youtube videos in Ohara YouTube Embed v1.2.11 modification stopped displaying. When I disable the Snowflakes modification, the videos work again.

Chen Zhen · December 31, 2021, 01:34:29 PM

I've already told you why that mod causes a conflict in a previous post from this thread

Ask the author of that mod to replace all of the document.write() with proper DOM manipulation. I'm not going to do it and if the author doesn't want to bother (or anyone capable) then your out of luck She is still occasionally active but ask in her mod thread or on her public forum, do not PM her about mod support like you previously did to me in the past.

jsx · January 01, 2022, 04:22:59 AM

I had to forget what you wrote to me because your mod is only used once a year for those few days. And don't educate me about private messages.

Steve · January 01, 2022, 07:58:42 AM

Apparently he did as you sent him unwanted PMs. And there will be no more discussion about that in this topic.

Let's keep it on topic, please.

Michael Vail · January 07, 2022, 03:18:35 AM

Such a cool mod! I really like how the setting options change when you select the type of effects. Really nice work on this. Thanks you so much. The detail you put into it is amazing.

Happy New Year.

petewadey · February 13, 2022, 04:49:17 AM

I'm getting the following error messages

/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=b9f061190472c83f5bd0a680f65e5bb9&action=dlattach;topic=11051.0;attach=32078;image;ts=1553017207
8: Trying to access array offset on value of type null
/smf/Sources/snowflakesMobileDetect.php
Line: 1065

==>1065: if (is_array($matchType['matches'])) {

I'm using the latest version of Snowflake, smf 2.0.19 and php 7.4

Any idea why?
Thanks

Chen Zhen · February 19, 2022, 11:04:44 PM

@petewadey
The null error you were receiving in your log should be fixed for Snowflakes v1.80.

Thanks for the report.

JasonSGN · February 21, 2022, 08:58:39 AM

Thanks for the great mod. I installed it on a clean 2.1.1 installation and the snowflakes work fine, but trying to change any settings resulted in a blank screen when saving. The only thing I can think of is that my site is running on PHP 8.x. Could that be the problem? Thanks in advance.

Steve · February 21, 2022, 01:54:42 PM

Can you drop your PHP to 7.x and see if you still have the same problem?

Arantor · February 21, 2022, 02:32:17 PM

Would love to know what errors are hitting the server (not necessarily SMF's) error log.

JasonSGN · February 21, 2022, 03:21:07 PM

Quote from: Steve on February 21, 2022, 01:54:42 PMCan you drop your PHP to 7.x and see if you still have the same problem?

I downgraded to 7.4 and it seems to be working fine now. Thanks. Hopefully it can be updated to support PHP 8.x in the future.

Chen Zhen · February 21, 2022, 10:50:41 PM

@JasonSGN :
I updated the mod to version 1.81 which should allow it to function using PHP 8.0.0+.

The changelog shows what was fixed for anyone curious about it.

JasonSGN · February 21, 2022, 11:08:53 PM

Thanks. Just tested it with PHP 8.04 and it works perfectly. I appreciate you updating it so quickly.

Julius_2000 · November 07, 2022, 07:49:10 AM

Hi there, great mod!

Question: I would like to assign a random opacity value to each flake in Flurry mode to create a little more depth. All I was able to do with my limited knowledge so far was to add this randomization to the jquerySnow01.js file

{op=(Math.random() * (0.99 - 0.75) + 0.75).toFixed(2)};

But it makes the flakes changing opacity indefintely. It looks nice, too, giving them a shimmering effect, but it's not quite what I'd like it to be. Is there a way to get individual opacity for each flake?

Chen Zhen · November 10, 2022, 10:38:57 PM

Just use the Math.random() function by itself & add to the JS where it alters the css for the flakes (instead of the op variable).

ie.

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f.css('opacity',Math.random());

Chen Zhen · November 10, 2022, 10:57:54 PM

To make it affect each flake a bit different you can try this...

find:

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f.css('opacity',op);

replace with:

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setInterval(flakeOpacity, (Math.floor(Math.random() * 15000) + 2000), f);

Put this at the end of the file:

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function flakeOpacity(f) {
    f.css('opacity',Math.random());
}

You can change the random interval to your liking (15000 & 2000 from above).

Chen Zhen · November 13, 2022, 05:21:23 PM

IMO for this scenario an interval (repeat) is not necessary & will cause a bit of a performance issue.
A timeout is more suitable for the desired outcome.

Change the above interval function to a timeout:

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setTimeout(flakeOpacity, (Math.floor(Math.random() * 15000) + 2000), f);

Julius_2000 · November 17, 2022, 03:00:35 PM

Thank you so much for helping out, Zhen! Your solution creates interesting effects but they still flicker.

I'd like to achieve something like this:
https://www.cssscript.com/demo/snow-falling-animation/

The reason I would like to use your mod instead of the one in my link is that yours is a bit more CPU efficient, at least it seems that way.

woolly bugger · November 22, 2022, 02:15:49 PM

What happened to the exploding lights, my peeps are missing them...

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