Re: FLASH: Speed vs. Size (was:getting a bit confused !)

[Adam Bruce]

>Each movie clip is executed independently of the current timeline as a

>separate thread. 



I think that might be what causes processor bog on deeply nested 

symbols.  IF you have 6 or 8 levels of nesting and each level has it's 

own masking effects, tweens, morphs etc, it's going to slow things down 

considerably.


Many of the military projects I do I have to simulate inverse Kinematics 

of Bellcranks, pistons, hydraulics, pushrods, springs, etc which make 

for very deeply nested multiple tweened animations.  It has been our 

experiance that moving as much out of symbols as possible can greatly 

speed things up.  Unfortunatly that sometimes is not possible as you 

have to tween a joint that is on a rotating bracket that is hinging on 

another rotational tween...sometimes it's really impossible to do it 

anyother way than deep nesting. Maybe we'll get lucky and get some sort 

of rudimentary Inverse Kinematics system with Flash 4.0....(I doubt it)


-Adam


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