Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 11/22/65 11:35

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:16:39 +0000, SpaceGirl
<nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote:

>Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:00:29 -0800, Onideus Mad Hatter
>> <usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> Even when you max out all the quality settings, even when you set it
>>>> to align with nothing but pixels (apparently Flash doesn't quite
>>>> comprehend pixels) and even when you MANUALLY ENTER VALUES based on
>>>> the EXACT POSITIONING you got from whatever graphics proggie you
>>>> like...yeah...any possible file savings, techniques or custom effects
>>>> that require split form images...yer pretty much fucked.
>>>>
>>>> And it's not like I'm usin JPGs here, the source split forms are 8 bit
>>>> PNGs with a single color transparency...there shouldn't be any room
>>>> for guess work, but somehow Flash still finds a way to fuck it all up.
>>>>
>>>> Oh well, so much for my nifty loader idea...Unless I make it a
>>>> Javascript/CSS/HTML loader for the Flash content...but then I lose out
>>>> on the whole point of Flash which is greater cross compatibility.
>>
>>> I take it back...partially. I reconstructed all the original PNG
>>> fragments using HTML and CSS and I found 5 small errors when I was
>>> splitting the original image, which accounts for the 5 fragments in
>>> the version I made with Macromedia...BUT, the SwishMax one (made with
>>> version 2.03) is just completely fucked. Further, although the
>>> Macromedia one can reconstruct them accurate it still tends to blur
>>> the whole image slightly:
>>> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_images/_Scraps/Flash_Limitations2.png
>>
>> Okay, I reconstructed it in SwishMax with the new images and then I
>> turned off the image smoothing option under "View" and this is what I
>> got:
>> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_images/_Scraps/Flash_Limitations3.png
>>
>> It's not ~too~ bad, I think if I increase the height of some of the
>> image parts by .5 it'll be acceptable.
>>
>> I like working in SwishMax more than Macromedia because the interface
>> is much more intuitive...actually everything in SwishMax is more
>> intuitive compared to Macromedia.

>SwishMax is really basic though.

How so?

>It wont take you long to totally
>outstrip its capabilities and be more trapped by it than freed.

If you're talking about default transition effects maybe, but when you
play on my level that stuff is pretty meaningless.

>Yes the Flash Authoring tool is awful, but soon as you get into scripting (and
>you WILL have to if you want to go anywhere with Flash) you'll be lost
>in anything else.

....actually when it comes to scripting either is fine, I mean, you
don't really need an interface to type code. Although I'd still say
that Swish is easier, at least from my experience. In Swish when you
add objects each one *IS* its own layer, where as in Macromedia you
can add multiple objects to a single layer...how you view those
objects after you add them or how you label them or view them on the
outline form...I haven't figure that out yet (again, Swish is MUCH
more intuitive)...that's assuming of course you can...maybe you can't.

>Animation is one tiny part of Flash - actually I'd go as far as saying
>animation is the smallest part of Flash. The Flash player is actually a
>complete virtual machine of sorts, which a programming language that
>pretty much lets you do anything. I've seen complete replicas of a
>Windows-like desktop built in Flash with a Macromedia Flex back-end that
>are just astounding, and almost all of it is coded rather than "drawn".
>Give it time :) You'll learn to love it like um... an ugly cousin :)

Yer makin some awfully big ASSumptions, Kiddo...my skill in
ActionScript is well beyond anything you're personally familiar with I
can assure you.

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