I'm developing a flash game and I hired a graphic designer to make it look more professional. The problem is that I don't know if I should use timelime animations or sprite sheets.Here is an example of his graphics:[url]...
How should I proceed for better performance? Also, if I just split the sprite sheets in many images, put them on an array and keep using add/removeChild() on them will it work properly when talking about performance?
Im trying to create animations for use in sprite sheets for xna but am having some problems with exporting png seqeunces from flash with alpha.I know that if everything is on the main timeline then using the export as png seqeunce with alpha works fine, but when there are movieclip symbols on the main timeline, which themselves are animations, the movie symbols simply remain at their first frames on export.
View 2 RepliesI would like to use Bitmaps in my Actionscript games.For me this represents a large change in my workflow as I have always used Vector but Bitmaps are really so much faster to render in certain circumstances. As far as I can see, 90% of all my game assets can be bitmaps.Firstly, are there any good tools for working with Vector to BitmapData? Libraries or OpenSource utilities?I know you can just draw to a BitmapData, and I do that, but what about Animations? What about a MovieClip of a laughing cow? How can I render that MovieClip at runtime to some kind of Bitmap version?But more complex than that What about situations where you do not have the MovieClip in a raw form?Imagine 10000 cogs turning at the same rate which is generated with code. This is hard work for the processor, so drawing it to a Bitmap for the duration of 1 revolution, would replace 10000 cogs with a SpriteSheet. I could destroy the cogs, and keep the SpriteSheet. Can anyone offer me any resources or google keywords I can search for, not sure of the technique but it seems to make sense? Especially with Starling..
View 2 RepliesMy 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]...
how to animate a simple sprite for the 100th time, I hope I might found I more specific, and better explained answer to my problem. I'm trying to make a flash game, of course, and I want my main Player sprite to be able to play multiple animations based on specific input. So, a running right animation, a running left animation, a jump animation, and an attack animation.
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I've got a sprite which I want to temporarily hide... But changing the .visible property doesn't do what I expect. The code looks roughly like this:
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I'm doing a simple rotation on a sprite but there's a weird behavior where the sprite does not rotate around it's top left. I think I'm rotating along the top left of the test class instead of the sprite child. I would like to rotate the rectangle around it's top left corner (kinda like a clock hand). The code is pretty short so I'll let the code + pictures explain my problem:
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{
import flash.display.Sprite;
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I've read a lot of stuff about rotating around a fixed point, I've tried doing it with movieclips instead of sprites, I even copy pasted a tutorial on rotation and nothing works.
I have an external style sheet, and it looks great, but it "flashes" the unstyled content prior to applying the style.
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I get this error when I call a function.Error: Error #2009: This method cannot be used on a text field with a style sheet. at [code]I'm using styles, not textFormat.
View 1 RepliesI am working developing a big project and I have a question regarding the formatting of the text, project wide. Is it a good idea to format all of the text using style sheets ? Including here, buttons labels, headers, and so on.
Or is it a better idea to use a combination of style sheets and the TextFormat class depending on the situation ?
Using style sheets project wide seems like a good idea but there might be things that I am missing and I would like some advices from people with more experience.
I have an AIR application with two DataGrids that I would like to export to Excel. I've found the as3xls library, but it can only handle one sheet (as per the comments). Ideally, I'd like to export both DataGrids into separate sheets in the same workbook.
The AIR application is running entirely on the user's desktop and doesn't have a connection to any server, so the solution would need to be Flex/AIR only.
My client wants spec sheets to be downloaded from his website... is there a tutorial what will give me the low-down?
View 14 RepliesI am working developing a big project and I have a question regarding the formatting of the text, project wide. Is it a good idea to format all of the text using style sheets ? Including here, buttons labels, headers, and so on. Or is it a better idea to use a combination of style sheets and the TextFormat class depending on the situation? Using style sheets project wide seems like a good idea but there might be things that I am missing and I would like some advices from people with more experience.
View 6 RepliesOn my Mac OS X it didn't matter, the setStyle Worked Fine,However I've transfered my files over to PC and working with the exact same things all the styles work EXCEPT for the setStyle("themeColor", "color");On this PC it's always turning it from the default "Greens" to a solid gray shade of borders, this is very weird.
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// Have a button component on stage
import mx.controls.Button
_global.styles.setStyle("themeColor", "haloOrange");
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It works just fine, do I need to edit the core class files for something? I'm extremely confused, I inport the class files in the first place so I can do public vars and strict data type them to that component.
Site loads two flash files at the same time with multiple dynamic text fields that load .html files with external css style sheets. The site works almost perfectly when viewed offline, but when you upload it the text boxes sometimes load and sometimes do not. I'm a graphic designer so I really don't know actionscript 3.0 (or any version) very well... so I'm attaching the footer .fla file which by itself suffers from the same problem, and the other files are too big to upload so here is the link to the other .fla file used on the homepage
View 3 Repliesanywhoo i have minimal actionscript training tho i know a bit... im trying to make an Item system were i make an object like a key or a helmet... and if i collide with it it disapears. and i get the item, then somewhere put _root.playerMC.standing.gotoAndPlay ("item"); .. maybe in the item i dunno..
so basically i set my characters up like playerMC then in that animation i have a body head arms and legs.. and in those i have different items equipped on each body part on each frame how should i set this up!!!.. i cant call those items deep in the animation the farthest i can go is like Playermc.gotoandplay ("walk") when i try to do like.. playermc.walking.head.gotoandplay ("item") it doesnt work..
I created a class, extended the sprite class, and now in the constructor I am trying to set the Sprite's width and height properties which are inherited from the DisplayObject. However, after I set this.width and this.height, and print the values, I get 0 for both.
What the heck is going on? When I view the livedocs I see that DisplayObject has width and height listed as public properties. I have been able to instantiate a Sprite directly, and set the width and height after it's been instantiated, so I don't get it.
package {
import flash.display.*;
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I created a new AS3 document (550px by 400px) and added the following code to the first frame.
However, when I run this, I see nothing painted on the screen at all, the screen remains completely white.[code]...
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Then the numericStepper is drawn as if it is squished to 20% its normal height. If I pre-set mySprite width and height before adding the numericstepper, the trace output is 0,0 after adding it and it is not displayed at all. Is there some way I can make the sprite only adjust to correctly fit the numericStepper OR resize it afterwards without distorting the numericStepper component?
I just started to make flash animations using Adobe Flash CS4, but there's something I just don't understand. To create an animated object, I know I have to create a new movie clip symbol, animate it, and then put it in the main scene. But when I drag the symbol from the library to the main scene, only the first frame of the animation is copied! How can I copy the entire animation of a movie clip symbol to the main scene?
View 5 RepliesI have uploaded my Dreamweaver CS5 web site and the flash/swf files don't appear.What files are suppost to be with exported swf files when uploaded so they appear on the web on my web site
View 3 Repliesi am totally new to flash and want to ask Is it possible to create complete flash animations in .net platoform with C# by using the flash APIs. Can anyone explain how it is done(which apis tools needed) and provide/link to some of the examples.
View 3 RepliesBoth of sprite.width and sprite.scaleX can be used for scale a sprite. Is possible sprite.scaleX depends on screen size?
View 2 RepliesIt has been a great resource of the years. No my problem. I am trying to dynamically resize a sprite that has a line drawn into it. Here is my code:
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Without having to open up the attachment files in the e-mails?I attached an HTML document too , but that never worked...
View 5 RepliesI bought a package of animations that are stored on the server of the company i bought it from. Now i'm trying to embed the animations in flash. I used this steps that the company gave me.
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Im developing an interactive in wich I use many animations either frame-by-frame (image-by-image) or with an embedded flv in the timeline and I have noticed that all of them don't play smoothly when first played, but once the animation has occured once they play the way its supposed to be. Im assuming is because once played an animation gets into the machine cache or something, so I wanna know if there is any way to force an animation to get into the display cache before is played.
View 6 Repliesi made a animation with flash, well. i made two animations.i want to put them togheter but i don't now how.so two different filesDesign.fla It has to be:Official Design.fla
View 3 RepliesWhat is the best way to convert an animation created in Flash to a .mov file. I've tried the export movie command in the file menu, changing various settings in the publish settings in Flash and and in the Quicktime options boxes. But the resulting .mov file has all kinds of fragments and artifacts. Has anybody had any luck creating animations in Flash and then converting them into a format that can be assemble in iMovie?
View 7 RepliesI'm fairly new to Flash and I'm having a bit of trouble. I've created two animations. One's a bouncing text animation and the other animation is a series of twinkling stars. I've added a key frame stop to keep the bounching text from looping, but I want the twinkling star animation to continue to loop. Is there any way to have one animation stop and the other loop?
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