Re: FLASH: Tweening a line

[John Croteau]

Hi Angelique,


> Thanks, everyone, for your helpful advice.  It ended up being an excellent

> exercise to make a growing line using each of the four methods you

> mentioned.  Here's a question: what are the relative merits of

> shape-tweening a line and motion-tweening a filled rectangle?  Is one more

> memory intensive than the other?

Don't know. why don't you do a test. Put each in a movie clip and you'll

need at least 20 copies. 100 would be better. Then time the 2 versions.


> I assume that masking is indeed more

> memory intensive, since it takes two layers.

Masking is indeed more processor intensive but not because it takes 2

layers.

Layers are always removed when the swf file is exported and generally

cost no bytes or processor time.


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