Re: FLASH: Adobe LiveMotion

[J. Lutes (pixelTwiddler)]

At 09:46 AM 8/3/00 -0400, you wrote:

>My company just picked up a copy of Adobe LiveMotion. I've been messing

>around with it a little here and there. The interface is pretty decent (and

>familiar for Adobe people) but I can't see any sort of built-in scripting

>language (ie, ActionScript). How can LiveMotion be used to create dynamic,

>interactive SWFs without scripting? Am I just missing it or does LiveMotion

>really fall that drastically short of Flash in terms of building interactive

>animations?



Matt,


You are not missing anything.  LiveMotion does fall drastically short.  It

is falls short when it comes to feature implentation (large or small), and

has many bugs.  The lack of scripting potential is just one in a long list.


In defense of LM, you _can_ easily create a measure of interactivity, but

the "dynamic" part you seek is not in there yet.


Just wait 'til you need to do a lot with comparably simpler things like

color picking, using the Pen tool, or applying filters which supposedly

rely on the current fill and background color.  There are so many

shortcomings/bugs in LM that discovering them may make you as disappointed

in Adobe as I am.


Good luck with it.



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