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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Real Stumper With BMP's
From:	John Dowdell
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:38:29 +0100

At 10:31 AM 8/21/99, John Davis wrote:
>I need input on a problem I am having with bitmaps in Flash4. I am working
>on my companies web site and have reported the problem to Macromedia. They
>reported to me on 8/4/99 that they recreated the same problem on both
>platforms and are working on it. Well unfortunately, I can't get any
>additional feedback out of Macromedia, after additional emails and phone
>request.

Who are you talking with? There are many of us here. (If you sent me
private email, for instance, then I'd only be able to see it after I got
through with the many public areas first.)

>So after that dissertation, here's the problem and the request for help. If
>you take a bitmapped symbol in Flash4 and place it on a one frame, main
>movie time line and test the movie, it looks fine. However if you take that
>same movie, create additional frames and place that symbol in any one of
>those frames and test the movie what do you see? Bitmap degradation, at
>least that's what I am seeing. No matter how the image is brought in, png,
>pict, gif, jpeg, or how it is handled on output through Flash, the bottom
>line is if it's a multi-frame main movie timeline, the bitmap degrades in
>appearance.

You're not the guy with the milk trucks, are you? If so, then Flash is
usually resolution-independent. Once you bring fixed-res bitmaps in to
animate, then they may very easily resize. We can handle this resizing if
not much else is happening, but once you start trying to achieve ten frames
per second, there may not be time to do bicubic pixel interpolation. (Think
of Photoshop trying to resize or rotate images many times per second, for a
comparable task.)

If this is the case, then consider using native vector art, rather than
transferring your bitmap experience to this new resolution-independent
medium. It's still *possible* to use pixel-based imagery, but it's a very
different technology.

But you may not have been the guy with the milk trucks, so you may have had
a different situation. If so, got URL?

tx,
jd

John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US
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