Re: FLASH: MARC***: Tweening Loads repost

[John Croteau]

Hi Jeff,


> http://www.PetersonSales.net/flashintro.html

Finally had a quick look at your ship animation.

You are skipping frames it appears and trhat is likely because the music

is set to stream. This will cause the animation to skip frames in the

animation to allow the sound to play without sound problems, dropping

animation frames to keep the sound running without fail.

Suggestions:

1) Stop the wave animation while ship is moving, or stop it very shortly

after it starts moving. 

2) Try to reduce sound quality.

3) Try to use non-streaming sound. This will increase early (preloading)

load time but will actually reduce the file size.

4) Move to a second preload event with the ship very small on the

horizon and let it sit there for part of the preload time. The ship sit

and the waves roll while the last portion of the required preload. This

will reduce the frog jumping time and get the mode set. When the sound

is loaded, fade it in.

5) Stop the sea animation while the Menu is opening up and then resume

it.

6) Review the overall animation and reduce unneeded detail. You have

many things that are too detailed. Such as gradients that really can't

be seen where a simple fill would not change anyone's perception of the

image but yours.

7) Instaed of changing the whole ocean, try making changes to the waves

in a much smaller area near to the ship. After the ship settles and the

Menu unfurls you can involve larger areas of the ocean in the waves.


Hopefully some of these will help.


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