Re: Scenes Bad? (Was: FLASH: If Frame Is Loaded question)

[Matt Spiegler]

Wow, thanks for the info. I must have missed that thread. I'm curious though,

if anyone from macromedia is reading this, what's the reason for this? It

seems to defeat the purpose of having scenes as an organizational concept if

they fall apart in the final product anyways. My apologies if I'm reawakening

a long dead thread.


Matt Spiegler


Marie wrote:


> Actually, this has recently been discussed on list quite a bit. There

> seems to be a variety of ideas about it, mostly negative. Some folks

> find the plus side being the organizational aspect of using scenes.

> However, the fla size is the only thing affected, not the swf's.

>

> Here's an old post:

>

> When your FLA file gets compressed into an SWF file, all of your scenes get

> flattened into one layer and one timeline. Therefore, tell targets often

> don't work, and targeting a frame number in another scene will never work

> since the frame numbers change upon export.

>

> In the past I never used scenes, but I recently took on a client who had a

> template that they insisted I use that is based on scenes. The Flash is

> extremely linear, so it doesn't have a big impact on the functionality.

> However if you are building a dynamic, non-linear site, scenes are

> definitely not the way to go; IMO.

>

> Good Luck

> -Eric-

>

> >This may be a dumb question, but is it better not to break it up by

> >scenes? Is there a memory or loading issue involved?

> >

> >

> >

> > > Marie wrote:

> > > >

> > > > The movie I inherited to work on is 12 scenes in all (yes, it's done

> > > > in scenes)

> >

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