Re: FLASH: too many MCs?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 03:32 PM 6/28/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Can it be possible to have too many small MCs that are functioning at

>the same time. ...As soon as the short clip is

>finished everything starts working again.


Hi Karin,


This is certainly a good indication that you're overtaxing the computer.

Make sure you're not including more detail than necessary in the tweens,

and if those little blinking lights use alpha tweens, see if you can just

use solid colors that blink on and off, or perhaps that have just three

colors instead of a range of colors. Of course I'm guessing at the effect,

but I think you get the idea -- the more pixels that have to be redrawn in

a frame, and the more alpha or color effect computations that you require,

the more likely things will slow down.


one trick in limiting tweening activity is to tell target some of the stage

tweens to stop while the focal object is tweening. Keep in mind the level

of detail that is actually useful to the viewer, and also keep in mind

where their attention is, so you don't have tweens and details that are wasted.


If this doesn't help, do try to post the movie on a web site.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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