Posted by SpaceGirl on 12/11/99 11:35

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

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 :)


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