Re: FLASH: How to write down your plans...

[Stephan H�bner]

on 14.06.2000 23:32 Uhr Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media wrote:


>> I'd just like to know how all of you make plans and things like "storybooks"

>> for your projects?. What I mean is: Flash itself isn't hard to understand,

>> but the structure of a flash-project can sometimes be rather complicated

>> with buttons within movieclips, different scripts and so on.


> Good question, I think.


I thought so too... ;)


> Well, it helps first of all to have a good system for creating and naming

> layers, and using lots of comments (not labels, which get exported and cost

> bytes). Having a dual monitor system is, I think, almost essential with

> Flash so you can use all the layers you need and still see the stage.


unfortunately I think this isn't an option for me as I am using an iMac DV

and so I think inserting a second gfx-card could be a bit problematic... :)


> Keeping lots of notes sometimes seems cumbersome and time-consuming. But

> really it helps me to use my head more about what i'm doing, so it's a

> learning aid, not to mention saving time when revisions are needed in a few

> months.


That's what I use to do also when I do something in MM director. Thanks for

your ideas. They will definitely help a lot to know what's going on when you

are sitting at the computer. But the other problem I have is that at the

moment I have no really good concept for constructing the movie in theory as

it is done with normal programming languages. I have some ideas about that,

but I am not sure if they're practial or not too time-consuming.



Greetings,


Stephan Huebner



BTW: Just wanted to say that I am from Germany, so I hope nobody will be

annoyed if I misunderstand something...



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