Re: RE; Well, they are all good, but...

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Posted by SirPoonga on February 08, 2002 at 14:30:02:

In Reply to: Re: RE; Well, they are all good, but... posted by )p( on February 08, 2002 at 05:26:59:

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: : Yeah, but the limitations of flash animation in director meant we couldn't do some cool effect.s

: Just curious, what limitations? ... I thought you can embed every flash movie?

: Peter

Yeah, you can embed them. But it's the director to flash communications that sucks. Coordinating the two is a very big pain. It can be done but with alot of work. Plus flash looses its fscommands so that sucks.
So lets say you wanted to make a frontend that used screenshots for navigation. First, those are dynamic, you don;t know if a game has a screenshot or not and one could be made when in the game. That is why you would really like to use the directory/flash combo. Now lets say you want to highlight the screens as you select them. Still not a problem. Now lets say you want to animate the movement of the hightlight over the screenshots. That's where it starts to get difficult. No you want to add in mouse support, AHHHHHHHH. Then the communication between flash and directory just tripled and you HAVE to make sure you keep things straight.

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: : : : : Yeah, but the limitations of flash animation in director meant we couldn't do some cool effect.s : : Just curious, what limitations? ... I thought you can embed every flash movie? : : Peter : Yeah, you can embed them. But it's the director to flash communications that sucks. Coordinating the two is a very big pain. It can be done but with alot of work. Plus flash looses its fscommands so that sucks. : So lets say you wanted to make a frontend that used screenshots for navigation. First, those are dynamic, you don;t know if a game has a screenshot or not and one could be made when in the game. That is why you would really like to use the directory/flash combo. Now lets say you want to highlight the screens as you select them. Still not a problem. Now lets say you want to animate the movement of the hightlight over the screenshots. That's where it starts to get difficult. No you want to add in mouse support, AHHHHHHHH. Then the communication between flash and directory just tripled and you HAVE to make sure you keep things straight.

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