Re: FLASH: John's flying text

[Cheri Harder]

I would say a combination of both.  There are just two active frames that

are playing over and over as you move the cursor, each time the MC hits

frame 3 it loops through each character twice - once to get the properties

and once to set the new ones (& re-draw) so if you have 100 characters it

has 1200 computations and 600 re-draws per second (is that right? wow!)


Am thinking there ought to be a better explanation for the slowness, tho, as

you can play around with the acceleration and deviation variables a bit to

make the greater number of characters "seem" to move faster.  I tried one

with 30 characters and it looked better at acceleration of 3 and deviation

at 2.5.  Some of the combinations are hilarious, tho.  I lost the entire MC

a couple times....I think it ended up in the neighbor's swimming pool.

<grin>


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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Arsis notes:


> I have noticed that when you start to add lots more text or

> objects the playback decreases. Is this due to the increase in the amount

of

> redraw, the increase in the # of computations, or a combination of both.

>





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