Performance :: Flash Scenes - More Efficient Than Using Mcs Or Frames?
Feb 15, 2012I am making a game and was wondering whether scenes have any efficiency/performance purpose or if they're just there to make Flash more organized?
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ActionScript 2.0 :: Direct Users To Different Scenes / Frames?
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ActionScript 2.0 :: Change Scenes Or Even Frames With On (release)
Aug 25, 2003I attached this actionscript to a movie clip:
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It rolls in and out fine. but refuses to change scenes or even frames with on (release). I am kind of new to flash.
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Dec 9, 2011I'm having a performance problem that seem to be related to Flash Player 11.I noticed this mainly because Chrome auto-updates the flash player. So, it's now up to 11 in Chrome. During a sliding section transition, the flash player chokes and skips about 10-20 frames. In essence the content jumps, not a smooth transitions. You can see this at the following url. Using a browser with 10, plays as intended, a separate browser with 11, chokes and jumps ahead.
firstworldproblems-[url].....I have security sensitive site, that is more elaborate that I can't share here. But, the same issue is happening above.I'm using LoaderMax to load assets. Adding it to the stage and then animating them in from the left or right of the stage, using Tweenmax. The one I can't show is a series of images, 1280x640 pixels, 10 in total.Removing items from the stage when they are not visible, so I can get the CPU usage back. On Flash Player 10, this is working as intended.On 11 it jumps. I don't think it's the removing assets from the stage that's choking the player, because the above link has the same issue.I feel like this is a Flash Player 11 performance issue.
ActionScript 3.0 :: One Main Class - Error With Frames / Scenes
Feb 12, 2011I am getting errors with flash cs5 classes I am using one main class and I've got to make a menu and normal game so two scenes (1 menu 2 main game). I keep getting this error when i play the movie. I am using CS5 IOS Packager
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at ButtonClass()[C:UsersMY NAME COMPDesktopIOS ContentButtonClass.as:68]
at runtime::ContentPlayer/loadInitialContent()
at runtime::ContentPlayer/playRawContent()
at runtime::ContentPlayer/playContent() ......
Scenes - Organize The Timeline And Not Take Up As Many Frames Per Timeline
Dec 5, 2009how many of you use scenes to get your projects done. I've been switching to a different scene for every new angle (I'm making a flash movie, drawing somewhat 3D perspective, and storyboarding it out like a movie.) I find it makes it easier to organize the timeline, and not take up as many frames per timeline. Are there any downfalls to this method? Because I'm early on in the production, and if there's going to be any problems down the road I'd like to know before I get too involved.
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Sep 12, 2011this is what i'm trying to accomplish; With a click on a movieclip (cannon_mc)a shot is being fired (ball_mc)
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Jan 11, 2011I'm devloping some library classes for flocking/steering behaviours on large numbers of objects (2000+). I'm finding that at < 500 instances, performance is reasonable. As the numbers increase, framerate bogs down.
I've seen remarkable performance with libraries such as Flint or Box2D with ridiculous #'s of particles / objects, so it should be possible to optimize / refactor my code to be a bit better.
I'm aware of the basic optimizations, such as bitwise operations and optimized for loops. Are there any more fundamental approaches I should be considering? For example, currently each instance is a vector-based MovieClip. Would working with BitmapData be more efficient?
Performance :: Flex - Using Nested ViewStacks Cause Performance To Decrease?
Nov 4, 2011Will I take a big hit in performance using nested ViewStacks? Should I strive to handle all navigation in one ViewStack and push children manually or will the affected performance be negligible?
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View 1 RepliesActionScript 3.0 :: Flash Most Efficient BitmapData Grid Drawing With Alpha
Oct 14, 2010I'm looking for the most efficient possible way of drawing an 8 x 4 grid (960x600 total size). Each square of the grid has a variable alpha and the grid is redrawn every enter frame. The problem is my application is doing a lot already and I'm looking for the most efficient way to execute this loop 32 times (possible more in fact) per frame without overloading processor.
Code:
private function init():void {
var dimensions : Array = [ 0, 0, 960, 600 ];
var gridRaw : Array = [ 8, 4 ];
var stageRect : Rectangle = new Rectangle( Number( dimensions[0] ), Number( dimensions[1] ), Number( dimensions[2] ), Number( dimensions[3] ) );
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I'm under the impression there could be better ways of drawing the shapes straight to BitmapData without using Sprites, or maybe I'm doing something wrong about memory usage as I can see memory going up and down in a cycle.
Flash Load ALL Scenes Of A Movie Or Does It Load The First Scene And Then Load The Other Scenes?
Jun 2, 2010I am working with a project that has many scenes. Each scene has a movie clip attached to it. The first scene is simple...just a couple of buttons and that is it. My worry is that when I add all of the videos that correspond with each button and publish the SWF will be a huge file. THE QUESTION: Does flash load ALL scenes of a movie or does it load the first scene and then load the other scenes when the user needs to view them?
My ultimate goal is to just have the first scene load and then when the user clicks on the buttons contained within that scene that only upon release does the corresponding scene load. Maybe I am doing this completely wrong and should look at doing it another way.
ActionScript 1/2 :: Track Scenes Viewed And Display Image A Or Image B Based On Scenes Viewed
Feb 26, 2011I have an interactive story divided into scenes. At the end of each scene a button appears. This occurs on a frame on the timeline.
There are two different buttons that might appear based on whether a prior scene has been viewed or not.
For example, there are Scene_1 and Scene_2. At the end of Scene_2 one of two buttons will appear. The buttons will be either "Go see Scene_1" or "Return to Main Menu".
If the user has already seen Scene_1, Flash will know that and automatically go to the frame in Scene_2 that contains the button "Return to Main Menu".
Conversely, if the user has not seen Scene_1, Flash will know and automatically go to the frame in Scene_2 that contains the button "Go see Scene_1".
I imagine there would be an action frame at the end of Scene_2 that will contain the as2 code to enable this action.
Perhaps something like, but probably not at all like the following:
if ("Scene_1", last frame == true){gotoAndPlay("frame#");}else{gotoAndPlay("frame#");}
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What is the best way? I discovered how to do it by loading a movieclip with the image, but that is risky because depending on the connection, it sometimes loads too late.
What is the most streamlined, small filesize way to make a long slideshow? Can you point me to posts that talk about this or tutorials?
ActionScript 3.0 :: Multitouch API Not Efficient Enough?
Aug 15, 2011interested (or proficient) in multitouch technology with AS3I'm currently doing a multitouch project (ya!), in which touch point and gesture detection is required, using the beta multitouch API in flash, the program does compile but there're some deadly issues about it:
1. The program(in swf form or windows projector form) lag frequently (about 1-3 times in 10sec) when I'm doing gestures, but it runs withno lagging when I open it by dragging the swf file to IE(and other browsers too), wield. (I'm using win7)2. Swipe gesture is not supported, which makes me really isappointed,by the way, touchEvents and gestureEvents can not be used at the sametime, but I've ever seen some smooth flash programs which apparently allowtouch and gestures, how do they do that?Well, the program is very simple but laggy(except swf in IE, of course), so I don't think the main problem for lagging is my code, I wonder if it's just me or it's the problem of the beta API or Flash player, but it's still not comprehensible
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ActionScript 3.0 :: Drastically More Efficient Than 2.0?
Jan 13, 2009Why did Adobe decide to drastically change the language this much?The only reason I can think to revamp something that before was quite simple to something that is more complex is for efficiency. From what I've seen the listeners help reduce filesize by having you only include functions you need, but it also seems like they're trying to become like larger languages such as java and c++.
While I'm sure it's good code ethics to separate code from movieClips and buttons, it's damn frustrating, coming from the 2.0 background. The only reason I can fathom as to why they did this was because there HAS to be some crazy performance boost or something.
Otherwise it just doesn't make sense to axe it altogether.Maybe I'm just complaining about losing novelties but so far I don't like the changes Adobe has brought to Flash.
Actionscript 3 :: Efficient Looping Through Dictionary?
Mar 5, 2010for (var k in dictionary)
{
var key:KeyType = KeyType(k);
var value:ValType = ValType(dictionary[k]); // <-- lookup
// do stuff
}
This is what I use to loop through the entries in a dictionary. As you can see in every iteration I perform a lookup in the dictionary. Is there a more efficient way of iterating the dictionary (while keeping access to the key)?
XML :: Most Efficient Way To Store And Parse Data In AS3?
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Jul 28, 2011In main.mxml I have a bunch of textInput controls a combobox and a few checkboxes that I would like to be able to clear with some sort of loop. Right now, I do it like this:
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I read a post on SO that recomended adding the controls to an ArrayCollection with the creationComplete event. I tried that and it worked fine but it was not any more elegant than what I have now. All of these controls are in mxml format and not generated with AS by me. I also tried looping like this:
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ActionScript 3.0 :: Making Code More Efficient?
Aug 5, 2011I have an activity with 6 buttons. Each button loads a movieclip from the library. Users can click the buttons in any order. The code below shows my long process of checking to see if other movieclips are present and removing them before I add the new movieclip.I'm wondering if there's is an easier way to do this. So far I've only written the code for the first 3 buttons. It is long and creates plenty of opportunities for syntax errors
var answer01:MovieClip = new swap01target();
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View 1 RepliesActionScript 2.0 :: Efficient Text Truncation?
Sep 30, 2007For this I have up to 16 movie clips with up to 3 fields in each that need truncating. So as you can see 3 x 16 = 48 * # of excess characters; Potentially VERY slow.My current code is:
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