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    [DISC]frame by frame or tweenmotion?

    on making should i just make everything frame by frame as oppose to motion tween? just a simple question sorry guys to make a thread about this but i am not a 100% sure. i believe that if frame by frame and motion tween use the same amount of frames you should f-by-f...right?
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    Frame by frame might push the filesize up a little but may perform faster than most tweening, though tweening might be smaller in filesize but perform slow, depending on what you tween.
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    yeah but tween will require more processing then f-by-f right?
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    Yep probably .
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    I think flash pre-calculates a tween when the movie is compiled, effectively making it frame by frame (it's like selecting all the frames in a tween and converting them to keyframes, only done for you.) So filesize will be smaller, and the speed should be about the same. I'm only guessing here, so if someone has a decompiler that will put create an .fla from an .swf, try creating a movie with a single tween, compile it, then decompile it and see if the tween is still there.

    Speed really depends on what the actual content is though. If it's a simple vector shape or bitmap being tweened, it's going to be a lot faster then a frame by frame animation where every frame is a new, complicated vector image (which most are.)

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    I think flash pre-calculates a tween when the movie is compiled, effectively making it frame by frame

    Yep, true. All tweens becomes frame by frame when compiled.

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    yep they become f-by-f
    if the tween and the f-by-f are using the same amount of frames then f-by-f is better if you can accomplish the same result using tween in less frames then use tween and then highlight the tween and turn it into a f-by-f just for anyone that wanted to know.
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    Frame by frame. Tweens can give you frustrating limits, and frame by frame is sort of limitless on what you could animate.


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