Fast, smooth animation using actionscript - please help...
Ok, here's the question:
Can someone make for me a quick FLA of an object moving across the screen at a very high speed and with an extra amount of easing using actionscript. I'm looking for movement similar to that seen on your typical Fantasy Interfaces site. A link to a good tutorial may suffice, however, I have asked this question numerous times before and it has gone unanswered. Sometimes, I feel like the fast animation secret will never be unveiled at FK. And this is posted here because I have extensive experience animating without actionscript and you simply cannot achieve the speed and easing I am looking for with straight animation unless the FPS is 100, which is not realistic. I hope someone can finally help me this time.
Create the function that does your programatic animation. At the end of that function place the following.
updateAfterEvent();
Call you function using the setInterval command. Now your screen will refresh after each function call, instead of depending on your frame rate. You could set your frame rate to 1 and the speed of the animation would not noticably change. For more info on updateAfterEvent(); consult the flashMX reference section.
Here's an fla that demonstrates how to use a function along with setInterval() and updateAfterEvent() to create smooth frame rate independant animations.
Hey Cyanide, thanks a million times over. I will study your FLA and hopefully it'll make sense to me with a bit of practice. Thanks again.
It's surprising that more info can't be easily found on this subject. I would think that more Flash developers would want to learn this method for animating with more control. Perhaps I am just being dumb, but when you say to refer to the Flash MX Reference section, what are you speaking of? Excuse my ignorance.
All I need now is a grand data bank of knowledge on this method and then I'm set. The thread should be made sticky, that's how important I think it is.
Originally posted by gdstudios Hey Cyanide, thanks a million times over. I will study your FLA and hopefully it'll make sense to me with a bit of practice. Thanks again.
It's surprising that more info can't be easily found on this subject. I would think that more Flash developers would want to learn this method for animating with more control. Perhaps I am just being dumb, but when you say to refer to the Flash MX Reference section, what are you speaking of? Excuse my ignorance.
Edit - Nevermind, I think I know what you mean now - in the program itself. Thanks.
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