IDE :: SWF Optimization - Heavy Graphics - Convert A MovieClip To Sprite
Jun 19, 2009
I'm coding games that come with the graphics done. Unfortunately the designer has some bad practices, such as not using Sprite symbols - never. And the files have dozens (even hundreds) of symbols in the library, very few of them with any animation. I would like to re-brand such symbols as Sprite to save some CPU (and maybe even kB), but my graphics-related skills are very low. Where should I start? Check and convert the symbols at authoring time or it's possible to do this at runtime? Can I effectively convert a MovieClip to Sprite (I'm guessing casting to sprite won't help much) or another light image type?
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Description : 1067:Implicit coercion of a value of type Box to an unrelated type flash.display:MovieClip on Show Box
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cannot convert flash.display::Sprite@39394a9 to flash.display.MovieClip.
here is sample code
Code:
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mySprite = new Sprite();
[Code].....
then it will be ok, but my goal is, How can enemy call the removeEnemy() in parent while it is inside the sprite
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