Re: Slow animation on mid-range machines

[John Dowdell]

At 6:10 AM 7/17/98, James Clark wrote:

>Does Flash have performance issues with animations that occur

>over a large area? Or, does Flash have performance issues with

>color/alpha transistions with large gradient-filled objects?


Hi James, hope all's going well out there.


Yes, both of the causes you identified do increase computational costs.

More calculations need to be done when there are more pixels to color, and

more alpha-blending increases each affected pixel's individual calculation

time, too.


To speed up things on a slow machine, try a smaller viewing area, and

consider simplifying the animation, particularly complex alpha-enhanced

sequences.


jd




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