Re: FLASH: Sharing resources over scenes

[Helen Triolo]

ifxjps [dot] net

 wrote:

> 

> Hi everyone,

> 

> A long time ago I read on the list that using scenes to organize your movies

> wasn't a good idea because it increases file size. If I remember correctly..

> the post said that symbols are not shared from each scene...so if you put a

> bitmapped image on the stage in scene one, then convert to a symbol and use

> it in scene two... it would increase the file size.

> 

> I'm starting a project and the structure would be best for me to use 3

> scenes and share symbols between scenes... but I don't want to pay the

> penalty of increased file size due to using scenes. I suppose I could put it

> all together in one scene but it might result in a very complex timeline.

> Breaking it into 3 scenes would be much easier to manage. I ran a simple

> test of where I created two identical files with the exception of one of

> them having two scenes. I didn't see any difference in file size in the

> resulting swf.

> 

> Am I missing something here? Just what are the penalties of using scenes?

> 

Alan,


I think the problems with scenes are more in the area of targeting and

duplicate frame names across scenes, not file size (in fact, another

person posted something exactly like what you found -- no file size

increase. I remember sticking it in the flashlist database, where there

are numerous comments regarding scenes if you want to check).  But many

people (I know, I'm one) use scenes successfully to organize different

parts of a movie if they're very separate parts and don't have to

interact (just make sure you use frame names--not numbers--for reference

and don't use the same frame names in 2 different scenes). 


Regards,

Helen

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