FLASH: Any Flash 3D Gurus In Here??????

[pete clark]

Ok flashers, I've been feeling kinda brave and decided to venture into 3D

Flash land. It's not fun. Has anyone here had any luck with it??  I think

I've gotten pretty far, the URL I'm posting below LOOKS good but it's a bit

of a clunker at 75K for a very simple file. So what I need to know is if

anybody has any good tips for cutting down the file size?


http://www.noramdigitalmedia.com/n2/3dnsample.htm


More specifically, here's what happens... I model the animation in Adobe

Dimensions 3.0 and export it as a series of AI files. I then import the

sequence (in this case, 36 frames) into a movie clip. Then Flash breaks

apart every frame into various chunks and turns them into symbols.  I end up

with about 250 symbols from a 36 frame animation!  I heard that the solution

is to break up as far as possible each frame yourself and create your own

symbols and discard the Flash generated ones.  The problem is that once you

break it past a certain point the gradients disappear.  This really ruins

the effect of the 3D.


If anyone has some good input, let me know!


pete clark

noram digital media :: a new media firm

petenoramdigitalmedia [dot] com

http://www.noramdigitalmedia.com



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