Supersmooth Animation

[erico564]

I've been checking out sites like
http://www.epsilonconflict.com
http://www.terabit.ca/flash/3rd/main.html
and anything done by Fantasy Interfaces (http://www.fantasyinterfaces.com).

I'm blown away with how smooth the animation is. My motion tweens are always jerky and crappy-looking in comparison. I'm doing my animations at 20fps - I read that if you go over that you risk choking the processor. I did do some experiments at higher fps and I didn't see much improvement.

What are your tips for doing supersmooth animation?

Best,

--eric

[Black_phoenix]

Hi can u post a sample of what u are doing ?

mb the reason its super smooth, is that it uses a preloader so all the movie is actually on your machine (cached)

if u are streaming the movie (no preloader) it can sometimes run slow or jumpy.

the epsilon movie as with a lot of good sites uses the same elements over and over again, this also keeps the file size down dramatically

i usually run with 18 fps, only time it runs slow is when its on a mac (its a mac thing)

how big is your movie K?
is it on a poor server eg free one ?
is it streaming the swf or does it preload ?

really need to see it to comment on it...
bp

[erico564]

You can take a look at an example at http://www.angelsmith.net/devsite/te...irldefined.swf

Notice that the side-scrolling text just seems kind of choppy. Nowhere near as smooth as the menu movements and such at http://www.terabit.ca/flash/3rd/main.html.

Movie size is 65k. I'm noticing the choppy issue when I test locally, aside from online. The server is not the fastest in the world but it's fast enough to serve our company's website (it's not a free site). I'm not preloading (since this is just a test piece), but it looks choppy to me when I'm looking at the swf locally. And both the fast text and the slow text look choppy...

What do you think?

[Black_phoenix]

Hi looks fine 2 me, certain fonts are bad to move, it runs pretty smooth not jumpy at all

u have a gradient on the right ? that wont help speed things up, mb bin it

i'm running p4 1000 with adsl 512m ram (G force 3 64meg)

mb do 2 versions one designed at high end machines one aiming at the bottom end of the market

u could post it for testing in site check, get lost of comments there

bp

[erico564]

Thanks for the input! Where's site check?

[Black_phoenix]

http://board.flashkit.com/board/foru....php?forumid=9

ask them to say what machine spec they are running, when u post

good luck
bp