Re: FLASH: Vectorbased Animationtools + Director

[John Dowdell]

At 7:43 AM 9/18/98, Gabriel Mulzer wrote:

> for the web, does the consumer need the Flash Asset Xtra too,

> or is it part of the latest shockwavePlugIn ?


Yes, the Flash Asset Xtra has been part of the default Shockwave download

since February 1998. This version has been frozen into the Microsoft and

Apple operating system CDs and distributed with the browsers... it predates

the Flash 3.0 players by a little bit.


For performance, Flash movies will run a little faster in Director than in

the browsers. However, when you put Flash inside Director inside the

browser, then the browser is the gating factor once again.




> does anyone know of vectorbased animationtools other than

> flash? im looking for  a tool that is specially designed for

> animating cartoon figures it should be vectorbased, so that

> the output is scaleable   the animations will be placed in

> director, so an option to have hardedged, aliased outlines

> would be useful too.


Flash seems like the best bet for this. (While it's possible that other

creators of animation tools could write out SWF files, I haven't seen

others do so yet.)



jd




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