SP™ I need you!
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- Sapphire
SP™, I know you're the creator of spent2000, and since your site is the only solution to a problem that I've asked over a dozen times with no proper answere:
I'm trying to create a full page scalable swf much like, if not exactly like your Cover Art.
But everytime I insert a PRELOADER to the file, the image end up appearing omnipixelated. Yours does not... so you see,---
examples:With preloader:
http://geocities.com/alita359/wh…
Without preloader:
http://geocities.com/alita359/no…and I am utterly confused/frustrated/tired of this problem. so pelase...PLEASE....
HELP ME!!!And if this sounds like I'm begging... that's because I am.
- dsmith70
you know I still don't see what your problem is. why don't you make a link to your fla file and maybe someone can actually produce a solution for you. otherwise, you should have been trying to use the advice given to you in the other threads you already made on this. I have used full sized images before and had no problems, iso I am not sure what you are doing to the image in the first place.
- majman0
you know, i had this problem too, and it annoyed the crap out of me. i decided after hours upon hours of testing that it was a bug. of course i could be wrong.
i had a nice clean jpeg for a friend of mines site that had very smooth edges. and as soon as i moved it from the first frame to the 5th frame, it would degrade in quality. particularly the contours in the image would turn jaggy. this doesn't even happen when you toggle the quality from low to hi within a movie. not sure what the deal is exactly. one thing that i don't think i tried was clicking on the image properties in the library and setting it as a losless ping. maybe that'll help. let us know if you figure it out.
- majman0
actually, when i check out SP's site, it's hard to tell whether the image is degrading or not b/c there's a lot going on in the image. i suggest linking us to a page that shows us what it looks like b/f and after preloader.
- Sapphire0
i'm not sure either about SP's site, but it sure looks a whole lot less pixelated.
- Sapphire0
and about the other threads, yes..
I've already tried every single methods/advice given. none seems to work. Its truly and ordinary file:
1 preloader
1 jpg imageset to "Show All" and preview. voila you get a phenomenon in flash that's been driving me into insanity for the last week.
I've messed with the jpeg compression from fully uncompressed, to 1% quality. The movie is set to High quality by default, I've even tried putting a _set.property to high quality. nothing seems to work. I even tried to load the image externally to a target within flash... wouldn't work... still jagged-pixelations.
The problem may seem subtle but when loaded with a sharp-edged image that has sharp details down to the pixels, it'll drive anyone crazy.
- dsmith70
you have your WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=100% on the object parameter, if the browser window is bigger than the original image then isn't it going to stretch out and pixelate the image.
- majman0
hmm... maybe try openning it up in photoshop and saving it as a png. i'm sure you've already broken the image apart and made it a movie clip registered at 0,0 but if you haven't, give it a shot. don't think that will help though. it's got to be a bug, it's exactly the problem i had.
- Sapphire0
not if you publish the swf file with "no border" command. the swf file stretches but content remained proportioned.
and besides, if it does stretch it up, why does it look perfectly fine without the preloader.
- majman0
oh yeah, dsmith brings up a pretty good point. forgot you were making it full screen.
- BonSeff0
im not a fla designer but maybe work form a large sized jpeg, say 1024 to start and flash will shrink it if needed.
or maybe im ignit. just seems like working with a 500w image and blowing it up might distort it
- BonSeff0
trans - the masta of visual comedy
- dsmith70
I'd really love to help you with this but I just don't see the problem your having. maybe you could take a screenshot of each scenario for me and I could see exactly whats happening. I honestly have always been able to fix any image problems in flash by:
1) making it a png
2) making sure its set to lossless/png
3) turning off smoothing
4) and making sure the dimensions like width, height, x and y are on whole integers.
5) sometimes add 1 pixel to the width and height and it makes it look perfect.For instance, I made this http://www.graphicdefine.com (keep in mind that this site is in beta). The flash on the left was a little off in flash so I had to make the width and height one pixel more.
- Sapphire0
by popular demand:
- ********0
try setting opacity to 99...
i mean if you ahve MX than it auto does it
- DeLeon0
A lot of bitmap problems in Flash can be prevented by taking out .01 pixel from the actual image size...
So an image that is originally 500 x 488 pix for example... you could try changing it to 499.99 x 487.99, put the image in a symbol and make sure that symbol is placed on a coordinate that's a full integer...
if that doesn't work, you can always just say the jaggedidies are intentional :)
- Seph0
maybe you could try to write a preloader in Javascript. I know you can have a type of preloader in JS for images, dont if you can do the same thing with SWFs.
Otherwise, try everything in all the messages above, and you own combinations of all the advise above. In my experience there is no set solution to the jaggys, flash has given me all sorts of problems of this nature and the only way to resolve it is keep trying. You could try loading it as a seperate swf with its own preloader inside another swf. If you know what I mean.
Try importing as quicktime by saving image as psd and importing, it might be heavier though.
The jagged road will be long and hard but you will find your way to the smooth tarmac one eventually.
- Sapphire0
oh well
- ********0
SP is somewhere in this neighbourhood right now...
be patient. :]
- quamb0
sapphire- both of those look exactly the same here (mac, ns7).
it simply looks like the image is distorting because it enlarges with the browser window.
you can not resize raster images larger then their original size without somekind of distortion occuring...
someone else mentioned this and you still didnt respond if this is the case.
though perhaps the problem is more sinisiter then this?
