FLASH: should I cut the # of mc duplicates in half if I can?

[John King]

In a movie I've got duplicated movie clips flying around. Each moving

item is actually two movie clips, one to do the movement and another for


the graphic which just sticks to the movement mc. There seem to be good

reasons to do this.


But I'm concerned about slowing things down once the number of clips

grows to a certain point. I could combine each moving item into one mc.

The question is , should I? Is it better to have two movieclips (each

with half the code) or one movie clip with twice the code. How much does


simply having another mc to keep track of tax the program or processor?

In some ways I think not very much (since it's a duplicate and it's a

simple shape and there aren't many keyframes) but I wonder.


John King





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