TimelineMax: Glowing Star

I’ve been using this GreenSock Tweening Platform (v11) for quite some time for small nice effects. It’s pretty simply to use but I’m still a newbie with many of it’s features. In the last update of this platform one of the changes was the rewrite of TimelineMax and TimelineLite functions. Until this day I have not used any of them.
To put it simple you can add multiple effects to a timeline.
I’ve used this feature for animating a glowing star ( still, I have to do some further experiments). Here’s an example:

package 
{
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.filters.GlowFilter;

	import com.greensock.TimelineMax;
	import com.greensock.TweenMax;
	
	public class Star extends Sprite
	{
	   private var _glowing:TimelineMax = new TimelineMax();
	   private var _tween:TweenMax = null;
		
	   public function Star():void
	   {
	      this.graphics.beginFill(0xFFF600)
	      this.graphics.drawCircle(0, 0, 5);
	      this.graphics.endFill();
			
	      this.filters=[new GlowFilter(0xFFF600,.7,7,7,3,2,false,false)]
			
	      var _rnd = (Math.random() * (1 - .5)) + .5; 
	      var step1:TweenMax = TweenMax.to (this, _rnd, {glowFilter:{color:(0xFFF600, alpha:.6, blurX:11, blurY:11}});
          var step2:TweenMax = TweenMax.to(this, _rnd,{glowFilter:{color:(0xFFF600, alpha:.7, blurX:7, blurY:7}});
			
	     _glowing.append(step1);
	     _glowing.append(step2);
	     _glowing.pause();
			
	     _rnd = (Math.random() * (3.0 - 1.0)) + 1.0; 
	     _tween= TweenMax.to(_glowing, _glowing.totalDuration, {currentTime: _glowing.totalDuration, repeat: -1, repeatDelay:_rnd});
		}	
		
	}
	
}

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