FLASH: Help me understand...

[Brian Boyd]

Tons of ideas and I am trying to figure out what I can and cannot do.


I decided to try something to help me understand flash's behavior as far as

symbols go.


I decided to attempt rain.  I am hoping you guys might describe how you

would go about it.


I made a movie clip of one drop, its just a line that moves across the

screen.  Would it be better to use a thousand instances of that clip for

every drop?  Would it be better to use that clip to make another clip of a

number of drops, and then insert that as an instance?


What I ended up with looked ok.  But my machine had a devil of a time

running it, SLOW!


The issue I am really wondering about is this.  In the case where you have

an almost fractal type of animation ... is it better to use one instance a

thousand times, or 10 instances 100 times, or 100 instances 10 times?

Hopefully you can see where I am going.  Anyway how does each effect files

size and playback?  Does it effect each the same way?  BTW my rain field was

a 2.6 megs fla file.  I am trying to understand how to weight, machine

horsepower vs. streaming.


Brian

kyronzonesys [dot] com

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