Java Boutique : Applet Categories : Visual Effects :

Snow Effects

AP_Rain
This little (6kb) applet displays a cool rain and lightning effect.

Confetti
Starting life as snow, this trendy applet was converted to confetti by popular request! Highly configurable, including various amounts of up to 13 different colors, pixel size, delay, fits any size image and supports frame overlay!

DS_Snow
Scrolling text, and images, and animated snow, all in one applet! Check it out!

jSnow
If you're looking for a free applet to spruce up your pages for the holidays, you may have found it right here!

Mother Nature
This is an applet that simulates a nature setting. It can rain or snow over the picture. When it snows you can make it accumulate on the picture by changing the parameters and if it rains you can change the color of the objects that fall.

Rain!
The Applet that refuses to die. First snow, then confetti, now rain!

RealSnow
Generates real looking snow that falls over your picture. You can set a background picture yourself and specify the amount of snow and the wind turbulence. Free.

Snow
Cool off with this slick little snow effect applet.

SnowDrift
Decorate for the holidays with this snow applet that features your own personalized message scrolling serenely across the image!

SnowFlakes
Not your normal snow applet... this one has real flakes plus a mousetrail!

SnowShow
It's no show..... er snow so...... aw heck, check out this cool slide show with it's very own snow effect!

TF_Snow
A fun way to add a little snow to your site. Just create a gif with a transparency mask where you want the snow to fall.

tree
A simple "Snow Falling On Cedar" animation. Images, sound, and message are all hard-coded. Edit tree.java and recompile to personalize.

Weather
Weather is not just a rain applet, it's a full fledged storm, complete with thunder and lightning! Display it over the image of your choice and remember... bring your umbrella.

Winter Snow Applet
This applet generates random snow over a background image. It includes various parameters to customize sound and random speed for a more realistic effect.

Zmei Rain Message
Raindrops keep falling on my head... That's what you'll be singing when you see this animated effect! Display it over the image of your choice, with or without scrolling text.

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