Re: FLASH: Adobe LiveMotion

[Sohrab Pirayesh]

here is a really good breackdown of the pros and cons of livemotion.


http://www.turtleshell.com/guide/lm.html


-sohrab


----- Original Message -----

From: "J. Lutes (pixelTwiddler)" <

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Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:13 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Adobe LiveMotion



> 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.

>

>

> -

> J A S O N   L U T E S

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