Re: FLASH: get url and play scene?

[David Gary]

Judy Miller wrote:


> Dave wrote:

>

> > however I personally dont use scenes at all anymore unless absolutely

> > neccessary. They conflict with movie clips and tell target routines and

> > make a mess of complicated shematics.

>

> Dave, would you mind elaborating on this one a bit please??

>


If your using alot of MCs that communicate with one another and especially

with other

movie levels then scenes should be excluded in design.


Basically when you have a movie clip instance and you then change scenes,

anything

in the new scene cannot talk to the same instance without the MC with the

same instance "resetting" itself or going back to the beg of it's own

timeline.


Now if you going to discard the MC altogether and dont need it anymore or its

not

going to be used in the new scene then your usually ok, but the more frames

used on  the maintimeline the more it chews up file size and if you can learn

tell target and how to communicate between MCs then scenes arent neccessary

and in the long run you can save alot of space.


If your creating sites that have different swfs on different levels then I

would advise

excluding the use of scenes altogether. The use of "load movie" is a powerful

thing

in FLash3. If you going to go from flash file to flash file, forget "get url"

and use "load

movie". Of course this technique can get complicated and theres things one

must learn before trying this, like I always create my lobby level movie with

no graphics.

I call it COM.swf(Command center). It communicates with all my other movies

because

it will always reside on the 0 layer. John C. gave me alot of enlightenment

on this subject. "Get url" is easy and usually shows that the FLash designer

didnt do his homework. Its a lazy way to navigate your viewer in my opinion

and takes a helluva lot

more time to load. "Load movie" is the ticket when navigating from movie to

movie and keeping your audience asking' "How'd they do that".


-DG-





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