Re: Please help with a file size problem

[Nag Champa]

Hey..


Can you build your remote as a vector graphic instead of a BMP.  You see

the BMP will take a large amount of space to store.  If you make as many

as your graphics using vectors you will be able to bring the overall size

down.  Also you may want to build the remote with flash and then target

the buttons to a frame and load the rest in HTML.  This way your file size

won't be that bad.  I would try to get away with as much HTML as I could.


Hope this helps.


Michael Prichard		Phone:  (407) 678-0945

chakraao [dot] net

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Judy Miller wrote:


> Good Morning,

> I am under the assumption that this is a new list. I first want to say thank you for starting it.

> I am in the process of redoing my site with Flash. My site is art related and is quite large.

> Part of my plan was to create a remote control type of object that would be the navigator for the

> site.

> I created the remote in Fractal Design Painter because I wanted it to be a bitmap image. It is made

> up of layers and textures etc....

> Some of the sections of the site go quite deep as in section, sub-section, level 2 sub, articles.

> I thought that in order to maintain organization, that creating a seperate scene for each subsection

> and level 2, would help with updating and since I am saving all my buttons etc as symbols, that the

> file size would be kept down.

> As it stands, I only finished the education section and it is already 123k in size. Much larger than

> what I had anticipated.I figured it should be around 40k.Some of the scenes are adding as much as 5k,

> which I don't understand since I am using symbols and the only real changes are very small buttons.

> It has 28 scenes with anywhere between 1 to 14 frames in each, the only items changing from frame to

> frame are the buttons.

> I wondered if it was the fact that I created so many scenes, but like I said, I saved every element

> that is repeated as a symbol. I haven't added sounds yet.

> When I looked at the file report, my first frame has 47k, I would imagine as a result of the bitmap

> which I compressed at 50%

> I also made a symbol out of that bitmap image. Was that unnessecary?

> Any comments or help would be appreciated. I would imagine I will have to preload it, since it worked

> like hell and download piece by piece, the way it is now.

> Thanks in advance,

> Judy Miller

> Fall River Decorative Arts

> http://fallriver.ns.ca

> 

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