Learning Function vs. Tweens
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- azstar78
I’m more a painter/graphic designer but I know flash pretty good, but granted my action scripts skills could be better. I want to clean up my “mask” on my art site and a few friends have told me I should do it all by Factions rather then tweens, and I was hoping either some one could give me a small crash course or point me in the right direction. I checked “FlashKit” but it to hard to find anything made well or to learn from correctly. The site in question is http://www.azstar78.com/index2.h… also some of the external movies take a few seconds to pop up so do be freaking out if they do. It’s a small bug I’m fixing J or if you have any other suggestions go ahead and blast way.
Azstar78
- abizzyman0
ah flash.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…
get that book - do the lessons - you'll then have a better understanding of Flash's capability. That's the best book that I have - amongst my pile of books.
Once you get a feel for how a function works - or a clipEvent etc etc - you then can build from there.
- azstar780
Never been a book person... I really can read the crap I'm a "doer" I wish I was a "reader/ten do" I learned everything thing from doing. I got clipEvents but not telling an object to move from thing position to that position on the x,y the scale up then morph before. Thanks for the link to the book.
Azstar78
- abizzyman0
the only other thing I can say to do is to then download some source that seems to do what you want... and then reverse engineer the file to get an understanding how the a.s. works.
... the only way to learn advanced flash is to read, see other code and then experiment.
... it's like losing weight - you can take a pill - but chances are - you're not going to get the results if you'd of been lifting some weights and doing a bit of cardio
... it takes work, man. :)
i see the az in front of your name. You in arizona?
- unfittoprint0
If you really want to master actionscript you cannot avoid reading the 'Bible':
- smoothblend0
i might get shitty comments on this..but who cares..
Make it FAST!! atleast 42 fps.. most of the big deisgn firms make there movies atleast 40+ fps
- azstar780
But will that fix my lagg in the movie it's 24 or something like that now.
- DigitalMe0
If I may interject on the subject of framerates...
setting a high framerate isn't a guarentee of fast playback in flash. It should be thought of as the maximum playback speed possible. Flash won't drop frames to keep the rate, it plays/draws each frame as fast as it can, up to the maximum. If a tween is running chunky @ 24fps, turning it up to 40fps plus probably won't help to smooth it out. Remember also that NTSC (American tv/video) is 30 fps, and you can't see 'between the frames' with that standard.
In my experience, the best way to achieve smooth motion is to manage your symbols, tweens and programatic motions as efficiently as possible. Keep overlapping motions to a minimum.
No matter how hard you try, some clients will still drop to 10 to 12 fps for even the most simple motions.
- Mick0
"most of the big deisgn firms make there movies atleast 40+ fps "
hehe funny. I suppose the really really big firms do up to 100 fps, oh and the really really really big ones do 200 ;)
- unformatted0
higher the frame rate, more cpu heavy.