RE: FLASH: bad scenes?

[JGL]

Actually, when published, scenes flatten out and are added in order to the

end of the time-line.


Movie Clips offer an independant/simultaneous timeline.


IMO, scenes are an authoring convenience and really serve no other purpose.

Movie Clips, on the other hand are also an authoring convenience but allow

you to create simultaneous timelines and targeting ability. If you are

planning to build interactivity, scenes are not a good way to go.


Why are scenes bad?

You lose control over timelines and frame numbers. Those frame numbers in a

scene are irrelevant once published. Frame 4 in scene 2 can end up being

frame 562 once published.


Quote: Eric Smolin:

"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."


Scenes are good for static movies (is that a term?), those that start, play

and end.


jgl


-----Original Message-----

Using scenes and movieclips go hand in hand.  Scenes are not better or

worse, they serve a larger function.  Scenes break apart a movie into easy

to use chunks.  If your building a Flash navigation system for a website,

you may want to place the Flash navigation inside its own frame on the html

page, and use scenes to break apart the Flash movie..  So you could have

each scene highlight the button that the user clicked on.  That way the user

will visually see which button they clicked to get to a specific page.


"I did read that scenes are not supported in a

swf?? Is that right???"


That is incorrect.  Scenes are supported in swf files.


Jeremy




-----Original Message-----

Is it common to develop using a lot of scenes? I am using Flash 4

and trying to pick up where someone left off...ie they have 3 flas

and 5 scenes and about 36mcs. No functioning navigation page

that is one of the many changes to be made.

I always thought it was better to use 1 timeline and lots

of movie clips. Am I way off here?


I can't find much info. I did read that scenes are not supported in a

swf??

Is that right???  This project is for the web.


Any tutorials or wisdom majorly appreciated!


Christina



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