On the home page of my website I have a Flash banner near the top, with a slideshow of my work. The problem is that the Flash file is 300k and takes a while to load on slower Internet connections, and I was wondering if anyone had any tips for me to optimise it. [URL].
View 1 RepliesI'm working on a large application that is broken up into many independent swfs. There is a master swf that loads a navigation shell and the foundational logic, and a module loading system that loads child swfs into the main display area. This is all working smoothly, and now I'm onto building the modules, and I'm starting to feel like my methods aren't as efficient as they should be.The module swfs (and corresponding flas) are located in a "modules" subdirectory of the main project's src folder. These modules share a large number of classes. In fact, most them define no new classes that are specific to just that module.The shared classes have a complicated structure of inheritance and interface usage, and are located in a view/structure subdirectory of the main src folder.
Currently, in order to use the shared classes from view/structure in my module swfs, I add the main project's src folder to the source path in each of the module flas. Besides being a bit tedious to do every time, it 1.) Redundantly compiles the shared classes into each module increasing file sizes across the board, 2.) Requires addition of new source paths to the modules for every developer who wants to work on/test the application because they are absolute values and different on every os's file system, and 3.) Doesn't allow modules to be built independently without access to the main project src folder.
I'm using swfobject to load a flash object on my site and it's loading very slowly on pages with a lot of data...as if swfobject waits until the page loads before loading the swf. Here's an example page with swfobject: [URL] If I change out the swfobject code with an iframe (with the swf as the src) or just use object embed, the flash object loads much, much faster...before the rest of the page loads.
I know there are a ton of page load time improvements I could make to that page (I'm working on that as well), but I'm wondering if there are some specific changes I could make to the way I'm using swfobject to get the same loading speed as an iframe or object embed?
i am looking to use a fair amount of music in a project that a user has dynamic control over. because file size is an issue i was wondering the best way in which to optimise file size and performance? i have noticed the loadSound command for retrieving it from a server and also considered using a linkage and not exporting in the first frame (if i do this how do i export it afterwards?).
View 3 RepliesHow can I organize, and compress my flash website so it could load really fast on a broadband or even a 56k connection. I created a basic html website with the same photos and text and it loaded way faster then the same photos and text in my flash document (with no animation).
View 1 RepliesIs there an already made flash based player that supports fast-forwarding & rewinding of a video file? Does it handle everything or some server-side cooperation is required?
View 1 RepliesI can't seem to remove / unload the external swf files e.g when the carousel.swf (portfolio) is displayed and I press the about button the about content is overlapping the carousel (portfolio) . How can I remove / unload an external swf file from the main flash file and load a new swf file, while at the same time removing garbage collection from memory?
View 15 RepliesIs it better to optimize an image before importing it into Flash, or letting Flash optimize it during the export?
View 2 RepliesIs there is a way to optimize flash for search engines??
View 4 RepliesI'm building an application in Actionscript using Flash assets, and my frame rate becomes very low (~7 fps) when I attempt to render 20+ assets on the screen, even though most of those assets are stopped movie clips. I've tried setting .cacheAsBitmap to true, which helps a bit, but not enough. What else can I do to get the frame rate up? I've noticed that some movie clips seem to impact it more than others, but I'm not sure how to alter them to make them easier to render.
View 2 RepliesI work on a big Flash project as the web backend guy that delivers all the files and assets to the main application SWF. Our last, really big packet of data are all the assets and sounds contained in swf files that are imported during the preloader.Are there any ways to optimize this process in any way? I'm really looking for ideas in any direction, no matter if its in the swf, the process of loading and so on. Also I look for solutions for the first time load (empty cache) and for consequent loads (prefilled cache).
View 1 RepliesI'm working on a flash project that incorporates a lot of artwork done in Illustrator CS4. I've been copy-pasting directly from Illustrator into Flash, and I add some animations as well. Final file is going to be a one single swf file which will be a part of UI for an application and .net will be the core for this. But now flash becomes unusable slow to respond for actions. My machine is a fast i7 with 6gb of RAM, so I don't think that's the issue. We are going to use this file with dual core atom processors. Does anyone have ideas for alternative importing techniques, optimizations within illustrator, anything at all that will make this more manageable?
View 1 RepliesI`ll be dealing with this few hours now, so I manage to optimize compiled swf file for only 5kb, and I need to achieve 15.
So, what are the options to prevent unnecessary file size?
Problem is that my rewind and fast forward buttons do not work properly in the sense that they start to mess up when you fast forward or rewind past the current scene. It seems to just skip through the whole movie and totally mess up the animation.the code for the controls is on a single layer and reads as the following:
stop();
play_btn.onRelease = function (){
play();
[code].....
I have a question about the optimization of pictures placedin a Flash stage.If I put a big sized pictures (for example: 1024 x 1024) andif, in the final result, the picture is downscaled on the Flashstage (for example : 200x200 pixels), once the swf is created ,will the picture be as heavy as before it was downscaled, when theflash web site will be loaded in browse
View 2 RepliesThere is a simple html page with intro video (.mp4 file). Video frame size is 1280*1024 (I need video to be as large as page up to 1280 px).
With such quality settings video file size is:
.mp4 = 42 mb (HD 1690*1080)
.flv = 32 mb (1280*1024, 25 fps)
For video playing I used as3 sample script (because there must be only playpause, replay, mute buttons with custom styles), like that
var strSource:String = "video.flv";
// create a new net connection, add event listener and connect
// to null because we don't have a media server
[Code]....
The problem is that I can't find a way to play it smoothly. It's loading in very annoying way, video is interrupted after each few seconds of playing.
I understand that the main problem is large video file size and hd quality, but may be there is some way to largely decrease .flv size or handle playback in more friendly way?
My name is Ross Przybylski. I am a fellow Adobe Flash developer veteran, and, like many of you, I am determined to find a way to achieve optimal performance for Flash games being ported to mobile devices.
I have 2 goals for this post:
1) Define the particular type of game I am trying to make cross-platform in hopes that fellow developers can offer ideas for the best approach
2) Share the various optimization techniques I have discovered and explored thus far in hopes that they will help other developers find the resources they need to port their own Flash games to mobile platforms
How to Optimize a Flash Turn-Based Strategy Game for Mobile Devices
I have created a multiplayer, turn-based tactical strategy game in Flash called Hero Mages (url...) and my goal is to port this game to Android, iPad, and iPhone using my existing AS3 code.
The game characters are represented in a two-dimensional, top-down perspective grid as animated unit models. For the PC/web-based version of the game, unit animations are accomplished via timeline based vector animations stored within movie clips. There are currently 21 unique models, 15 different animations per model, and between 300-450 unique frames per model. As a turn-based game, typically only one model will move/animate at a time, though two or more models may also engage in combat (attack/block/take damage from spells, etc.) in which case several animations may take place at the same time.[code]...
I have an Embedded (synchronized with timeline) clip in a flash movie.I am controlling the currentFrame of the clip by dragging a slider left to right (to simulate rotating an object).The problem is when I go forwards, motion is smooth, but if I drag to the left Flash cannot seem to efficiently play back in reverse and the motion is extremely jerky.Obviously I'm skipping frames depending upon the position of the mouse, but there is a very noticable lag when currentFrame is decreased vs. increased. Is there a way to optimize an embedded timeline clip for reverse random seeking like this?Possible solutions (untested) :Use video instead of embedded - I would expect this to make the situation worse though!Create a second reversed video for when scrolling to the left. This would probably double the file size.
View 2 RepliesI'm loading a lot of external videos and pictures and I'm wondering what is the best way for handling the loaded videos and images. Should I unload them after they have finished playing and reload them whenever they are needed, or it's not required since they just use the clients memory and not the cpu cycles when inactive?
View 2 RepliesIm creating MMO with flash but making it small at first.... I need to know the best way to code the characters.... I was thinking keeping all the data such as coordinates, inventory and cash all in MYSQL so the clients cant change the values in my flash client program. I was thinking of calling quires every few seconds which would eventually becomes thousands... what do you think is the best way about it?
BTW: Flash = Client Side
PHP = Server
MYSQL = DATA
All I'm trying to do is load an external .swf file into a precise location on the stage of my existing Flash file. I've spent an hour and a half on this site search and found nothing. What do I add to my loadMovie command to place the file at specific x,y coordinates?
View 3 RepliesI would like to run a .swf file into an existing flash file, but the dimension size of the .swf file is too big. I am a beginner to flash and not sure of the steps to execute this. Would anyone be willing to walk me through the steps to import the code?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to load an xml file from via http into my flash 8 file. Locally it works fine but when on the server it fails. I assume this has to do the flash security sandbox. How do I get around this. I own the servers so is there some sort of fix that I upload to allow the swf to receive the data?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to load a txt file into flash by putting the url in an xml file. The XML file is structured like this:
HTML Code:
<pic>
<image>pictures/AW0001.jpg</image>
<description>text/AW0001.txt</description>
</pic>
Now I load it into arrays in flash: image[0] and description[0]. The images is displayed the way I want to, the thing is I want to pass on the url that is in description[0] to a loadMovie or something like that. If i say desc_txt.text = description[0]; it will just show AW0001.txt in flash. I've also tried this with load and loadVars but I can't figure it out.
some animation on flash, Inside that flash movieClip has number of small animation running.When i change the movieclip view to 3D view, it gets slow[URL]
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to use Actionscript to speed up (or slow down) a video playing? Say, having it play at twice the normal speed? If possible, can you also make it that the sound does not get all squeaky? Some Videoplayers can do that, I was wondering if it is possible to do in Flash.
View 2 RepliesSome computationally intensive software are now using the GPU to solve mathematical problems. Now that flash has GPU support, is it possible to use flash to crunch math problems? How would it be done. In other words, does flash expose sufficient low level API to control the behavior of the GPU sufficiently to perform such a task? Example of problems; Find a message with the following hash: 2987432847298374298374982374
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to load a jpg file that is outside my flash SWF file and I've tried this code:loadMovieNum("1.jpg", 1);
View 5 RepliesI have this little NetStream movie (which I'm not allowed to show, sorry) set up like this:
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
[code].....
The sfw goes like lightening in explorar (yes) and in firefox and like a tortoise in chrome. Do I need to download a plugin for chrome or is there a problem with flash and chrome. It's important as I am about to release an important program in schools.
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