FLASH: RE: Scenes Bad? & How Mc's Effect Streaming

[David Jacobs]

One issue I have never really seen addressed much, is how using MC's effects

streaming. A main timeline will stream frame by frame, but an MC must be

completely downloaded before it begins playing. Thus it is often necessary

to place at least the intro or preloader on the main timeline. For

organization purposes, it certainly makes sense to use a distinct scene for

this.


David Jacobs

Web Developer

Skywalker Communications

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> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Eric Smollin [SMTP:esmollinPLANSOFT [dot] com]

> Sent:	Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:32 AM

>

To: 'flasherchinwag [dot] com'

> Subject:	RE: Scenes Bad? (Was: FLASH: If Frame Is Loaded question)

> 

> I never use scenes. Instead I use several MC's (you can thing of them as

> scenes) and I use Tell Target to communicate between them. It's the same

> basic concept without the drawbacks and workarounds required when using

> scenes. If you go the MC route, you end up with a main timeline that

> consists of a few layers and even less frames, not the long unorganized

> timeline that you describe. Each MC has a blank first frame with a Stop

> action so you can "park" them whenever you don't want them to be visible.

> 

> Just another option to consider...

> -Eric-


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