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very slow tweening between scenes....
i have a massive .fla file that has heaps of photos i have made symbols that tween by fading from one to the next. it is 13 MB! very large, i know, but the guy i contact to wanted all of this info, so i did my best....
anyway, at the end of one scene i do a 15 frame fade tween of about 5 symbols (including the background gradient) to another 5, for example, russia with a red background and russian flag tweens to italy with a green background and italian flag....
now there is no problem with the entire movie (swf is 1.5MB) playing on my pc at normal size, but when it is on the large plasma for the presentation and even at full screen on my pc the tweening between scenes is excruciatingly slow and looks crap!
could someone please give me a few pointers? i am fairly new to flash (well, i have done a training cd which was cool!) and this is my first real undertaking.
thanks!
jt6572
anyway, at the end of one scene i do a 15 frame fade tween of about 5 symbols (including the background gradient) to another 5, for example, russia with a red background and russian flag tweens to italy with a green background and italian flag....
now there is no problem with the entire movie (swf is 1.5MB) playing on my pc at normal size, but when it is on the large plasma for the presentation and even at full screen on my pc the tweening between scenes is excruciatingly slow and looks crap!
could someone please give me a few pointers? i am fairly new to flash (well, i have done a training cd which was cool!) and this is my first real undertaking.
thanks!
jt6572
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It might be a long shot, but this might help. I regularly tween (you need to tint tween) large-ish bitmaps in MX. Have you tried using a different browser to play the movie. I have one movie that I simply can not view using the Apple Safari Browser that plays fine with IE 5.0 on the mac, and every other browser. It just doesn't tween that particular movie well. It drives me nuts, cause I love Safari. Some sort of bug I guess. What happens if you use a different browser to view the movie that's giving you a problem?
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thanks very much rascalpants,
havent seen the result yet, but i took out the gradient backgrounds and it looks much better anyway!
jt6572
havent seen the result yet, but i took out the gradient backgrounds and it looks much better anyway!
jt6572
one other tip that you might use is when ever you use Alpha tweens, you should never go from 0% to 100%...
instead you should go from 1% to 99%
I can't remember why, but this seems to help the CPU out a little bit...
rp
instead you should go from 1% to 99%
I can't remember why, but this seems to help the CPU out a little bit...
rp
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excellent, thanks again rascalpants! will do...
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