RE: FLASH: OT: Great LiveMotion Article

[Branden Hall]

Here's why I *greatly* dislike LiveMotion:

* No real interactivity (back to Flash 3)

* No optimization built in (no bandwidth profiler, etc)

	Quote from the manual "You can optimize your artwork in

	LiveMotion by choosing export quality settings and

	viewing the resulting file size." - uh no

* It never tells you the *real* name of your Movie Clip instances so that

you can script them with JS

(I honestly hope I am wrong there!)

* I am never explicitly told "HEY, this is a *BITMAP* effect and will affect

your file size by XXX bytes"

In other words, artists will think its okay to do lots of tweens with fancy

Photoshop filters and then be left to

wonder why the file size is huge... I will have to teach our artists exactly

what they are and aren't allowed to do... ugh

* No library (like there is in Flash, I understand LiveMotions, but its not

the same).. come on folks Aliases? What the heck is that? I never have a

clear concise way of looking through what assets I am using (I know I could

look in the timeline, but that's not the point, I still can't get a usage

count, or just preview my objects before I use them)

* No adjustments for easing tweens... just ease out and ease in?!? Come

on...

* The HTML text editor that doesn't seem to work when exporting to flash

(please say I am wrong here!)


To be fair, here are the things that I like...

* The pen tool

* The collapsibility of the timeline

* The softness layer attribute (It makes things big... but its still nice!)

* The color palette... I love the multiple views

* The color schemes... don't know much about it yet, but the theory rocks,

and its already helped me some

* The palette mentality of the whole thing... I love palettes

* The new gradient options, burst, etc..

* The non-destructive object oriented approach to the whole thing, I can't

stress this enough.


Now... here's why over all I think LiveMotion is bad...

While it is object oriented approach to building animation is inherently a

good idea, Adobe just did a mirror image of Macromedia. Macromedia Flash

ignores the fact that how symbols interact should be object based, but

enforces a object based

approach to using those symbols with the library and the fact that

reusability is the key (things *must* be symbols) Adobe lets symbols (which

they call objects) interact in an object based manner, but don't enforce the

use of these as objects.

Their alias idea is weak and not forced, thus it will be easy for people to

ignore it and lose the inherit file size benefits of the reusability of

symbols.


All in all the program steps too far away from the way the SWF format works

and the technical details of making web based animations. It get too caught

in making things look nice while ignoring the fact that optimization is key,

else we would all be using Director!!


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software - "We've got you covered!"






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Subject: RE: FLASH: OT: Great LiveMotion Article



hi all,


Mmm, good article, but what about scripting support? is there any?


the article mentions interactivity, so I guess you still get buttons.

What about variables, FS commands, sending data, printing etc.


does anyone have any info?


cheers,

gm


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Subject: FLASH: OT: Great LiveMotion Article



What's great about it is that it's a lot about Flash, too ... clear,

comparative info:


http://streamingmediaworld.com/symm/voices/lmo/


Ken Sherwood




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