Re: FLASH: Re: Dimensions question

[Dorian Nisinson]

Hi Steven,

	To use Dimensions generated files you have to be prepared to do a lot

of editing once you have imported all to Flash. If you export from

Dimensions as a raster or draft mode, you get a series of bitmapped

images which must be hand traced in Flash or the size of the swf will be

huge and it will play slowly. 

	If you export as postscript, you will indeed get an enormous number of

symbols and a mask layer in each one. These need to be edited a lot. All

the gradients will show up in Flash with a group for each band of each

color. This is not an efficient use of Flash. The gradients all need to

be ungouped and combined into an outline and then have Flash apply it's

own gradients which are much smaller in file size.

	Better still, you can try changing all the mask layers in each symbol

to regular layers. Then filling them with the appropriate color in Flash

and deleting all the other layers from each symbol as you convert the

mask layer. This might be a more streamlined approach, though no one

would ever call it anything but labor intensive.


Dorian


Steven Lim wrote:

> 

> Thanks for replying .

> 

> I tried it out using postscript mode , indeed it generate a series of mask

> layers .

> I imported one sample.ai alone and it already have 66 symbols .

> I tried both raster or draft mode too . They produced a white background

> layer

> which didn't fit in my gradient background back in flash . and the .swf

> exported

> is quite a large size . What's the average size for a simple 3d .swf

> (3D graphic rotation itself ) ? I believe that's a optimum way of creating

> 3D in flash

> which I haven't tried out . Pls advise =) Thanks

> 

> ----- Original Message -----

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From: Dorian Nisinson <dorianbway [dot] net>

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To: <flashershocker [dot] com>

> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 12:49 AM

> Subject: FLASH: Re: Dimensions question

> 

> > Hi Steven,

> > Try using Operations/Generate Sequence. You must have the artwork you

> > want to export selected when you start the process. You can specify the

> > number of frames to generate and the size and the starting and ending

> > positions of the selected art work. Depending on the choice you have

> > made for viewing Dimensions will export vector if postscript is

> > selected, and bit map if raster or draft is selected. If you choose the

> > postscript mode for vector you will have a lot of cleaning up to do with

> > the art once it is in Flash. Before you start the process, select

> > Preferences and select a very low number for gradient steps. This will

> > save you some clean up time later in Flash.

> > Also, this procedure creates a mask layer for every symbol it creates

> > and these are not needed in  Flash as far as I can see.

> >

> > Dorian

> >

> > Steven Lim wrote:

> > >

> > > Hi guys ,

> > >               Pardon me for my English . I wanna do some simple 3d

> effect in

> > > flash . Like revolving a text . I heard adobe dimension is an easy to

> use 3D

> > > software , well I bought it .

> > >

> > >              I create a graphic in flash , export it as .ai and import

> it

> > > into adobe dimension . Inside dimension , I rotate the graphic , export

> as

> > > .ai and import into flash as one keyframe , rotate the graphic , export

> as

> > > .ai and import into flash again as second keyframe and on & on ...Is

> that

> > > the fastest way to do it ? Pls help . Thanks ^_^

> > >

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