Xud
12-26-2003, 05:57 PM
Question:
Is about my performance of a website I am currently working on for a client. So far when I preview the website on my work computer it runs smoothly, but it has become aware to me that there are issues with it running choppy on a lower end computer. Now since the regular consumer uses a lower end machine (compared to the higher end ones that multimedia developers might use) this performance issue is big.
Here is the link to the site (the web address will change when the site is done, this is just for demonstration purposes):
http://www.freewebs.com/ekko313/
I would like to know how smooth it runs on different machines, so any feedback on that is appreciated.
Here is how the site is broken down:
Index.Html
Flash.Swf
Here is how the individual flash file is broken down:
The total file size is around 250k
There are 3 scenes:
"Preloader"
"Ani"
"Scene 1"
"Preloader" is of course the preloader screen for the entire file, after it loads the total bytes it goes to scene "Ani" witch is the beginning animation for the site, after the it directly goes to "scene 1" witch is where all the navigation going on
"Scene 1" is broken down into 4 layers:
The actions layer
The layer with all the movies clips (basically anything that moves or fades in on this scene is in this layer)
The buttons layer
and the graphics layer
and all these layers work on one frame
The way I have this working is on the actions layer I have a stop command and a global variable witch is set to 0, on each button I have a script that plays the corresponding incoming movie clips, and the corresponding outgoing movie clips with use of the global variable changing.
That’s a basic run down on how I got it working.
Now the main problem:
Certain machines plays these animations slower than others, on some they are smooth and others they are choppy.
The possible main cause of this problem:
Having all my movie clips on one layer and in one scene
Possible solution:
Breakup the different movie clips in to multiple scenes
Comments:
I appreciate any comments or help I can get on this, I also realize that there are millions of possibilities to make this site more efficient, but I am still breaking into flash, I know the basics of how it works and I know the basics of action scripting (I basically learned as I went) I realize I still have alot to learn about flash, for now I am focused at the problem in this post at hand, so help, like I said, is very much appreciated.
Is about my performance of a website I am currently working on for a client. So far when I preview the website on my work computer it runs smoothly, but it has become aware to me that there are issues with it running choppy on a lower end computer. Now since the regular consumer uses a lower end machine (compared to the higher end ones that multimedia developers might use) this performance issue is big.
Here is the link to the site (the web address will change when the site is done, this is just for demonstration purposes):
http://www.freewebs.com/ekko313/
I would like to know how smooth it runs on different machines, so any feedback on that is appreciated.
Here is how the site is broken down:
Index.Html
Flash.Swf
Here is how the individual flash file is broken down:
The total file size is around 250k
There are 3 scenes:
"Preloader"
"Ani"
"Scene 1"
"Preloader" is of course the preloader screen for the entire file, after it loads the total bytes it goes to scene "Ani" witch is the beginning animation for the site, after the it directly goes to "scene 1" witch is where all the navigation going on
"Scene 1" is broken down into 4 layers:
The actions layer
The layer with all the movies clips (basically anything that moves or fades in on this scene is in this layer)
The buttons layer
and the graphics layer
and all these layers work on one frame
The way I have this working is on the actions layer I have a stop command and a global variable witch is set to 0, on each button I have a script that plays the corresponding incoming movie clips, and the corresponding outgoing movie clips with use of the global variable changing.
That’s a basic run down on how I got it working.
Now the main problem:
Certain machines plays these animations slower than others, on some they are smooth and others they are choppy.
The possible main cause of this problem:
Having all my movie clips on one layer and in one scene
Possible solution:
Breakup the different movie clips in to multiple scenes
Comments:
I appreciate any comments or help I can get on this, I also realize that there are millions of possibilities to make this site more efficient, but I am still breaking into flash, I know the basics of how it works and I know the basics of action scripting (I basically learned as I went) I realize I still have alot to learn about flash, for now I am focused at the problem in this post at hand, so help, like I said, is very much appreciated.