Smooth fades and tweens

[jas]

I've been looking for a while now, and have been unable to find information on producing smooth fades/tweens in Flash. I look at a lot of sites and some just seem to have very smooth fades. The default tweening in Flash just seems to flicker.

Can someone describe the technique for smooth animations, or at least point me to a resource. There's a downloadable file on Praystation.com called the perfect fade, however, it's in MX so I can't see the source code.

[snapple]

jas,

It depends, if you tweening manually or scripted.

If manually, then use the easing in + out option Flash offers you, crank the fps up too.

If scripted then....Billy.T wrote a really, really useful tut that can be aplied to _xposition, _yposition, _alpha, _scale, here it is :

http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/beginner/Animation_Via_Actionscript/index.shtml

Regards, snapple :)

[jas]

Hey that's just what I was looking for. So, it looks like by focusing on a programmatic solution, you get the maximum processor refresh rate as opposed to a predetermed frame rate. The downloadable demo is very smooth, that's perfect, thanks.