Re: FLASH: Flasher wish list

[brzys]

I understand your point Jeff, but even in hierarchical families you still

must have individual names! As a default it will usually name it itself in

the application: i.e.:

sphere 01, sphere 02, sphere 03. Keeping this in mind, I choose to still

name the children of a certain group for which they pertain to such as arm

as the parent, in this group, forearm, elbow, elbow joint, hand (different

parent within the arms' grouping)

finger01, finger 02, finger03, etc.


Having to go through and tweak each polygon, even if it's just to move it a

touch, in the long run it's so much easier if they're named individually.


Using this formula in Flash is no exception. This way there will be no

confusing objects with each other, objects within groups, objects with

scripting attached, objects with script attached within a grouped of objects

with script attached. etc.etc. Why? Because they all have their own name,

not to be confused with any of the other names already given to other

objects in the movie!


(object = graphic, movie clip, button)


cYa,


Mary Brzys


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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 6:40 AM

Subject: FLASH: Flasher wish list



> I am currently using several good 3D design programs that have very

intuitive

> interfaces that utilize hierarchical folders that allow you to specify

objects

> to folders thus forming child / parent family relationships. For instance

if you

> put a hand model in an arm folder and the arm folder in the body folder

than all

> objects in the body folder are linked together forming a jointed arm

> relationship.

>

> I would like to see Flash allow for a Hierarchical folder arrangement in

the

> layers listings of the timeline window. Why use individual scenes in

separate

> windows when all the scenes could be listed in a few folders on one

timeline

> window. Any scene could be viewed at anytime by double clicking on any

folder

> and having it pop open, revealing all levels of the scene in parent /

child

> hierarchical fashion. No searching over several timeline windows required.

And

> because the scenes are composed of parent / child folders, the scene can

be

> viewed in as much detailed as needed by simply opening or closing object

folders

> inside the main scene folder. This would provide a simple and clean

interface

> where everything can be viewed in one window with no searching simply by

> expanding indivual folders as much as needed thus eliminating unnecessary

> clutter.

>

> More importantly, if all movie objects are listed in parent / child

relationship

> fashion than there would be no need to specify where a movie clip or

variable

> resides (example: /mc instance:variable name), simply name them and the

program

> would know how to align them since they are already aligned on the

timeline.

>

> This parent / child relationship would also offer other benefits such as

tying

> transitions to a folder would allow everything in the folder to have the

same

> transition; closing a folder would automatically lock everything in the

folder;

> folders could form the basics for a BONES structure where objects in child

> folder are logically connected to objects in a parent folder (example:

hand

> objects in an arm folder would be connected at the joint allowing for

realistic

> animation).

>

> Also, there should be a way to fold up parts of the timeline frames. For

> instance, if you have a movie 400 frames long, why not allow the use to

take the

> first 200 frames of the opening animation and collapse it into a one frame

> folder so you don't have to scroll 200 frames to get to the rest of the

movie.

> The movie could be encapsulated in several folders making the entire 400

frame

> movie viewable in one window, no scrolling required.

>

> All this would make for a cleaner and more intuitive interface.

>

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