Animations slow down frame rate?

[Clownfish5]

Hi!

I thought, since I had read it somewhere here, that animating mc's ought to cause a game to slow down more than static ones. Can you confirm that?

The reason I doubt it is that I recently made this tiny frame rate monitor (http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=776933)
and I compared invading the screen with static baddies (moving around though) with animating baddies.

With a lot of accompanying code, fps started to drop around 35-40 baddies, in BOTH attempts. i.e. both when they were static and when they were animated....

So, what's your thoughts on that? Can I animate my mc's as much as I like without risking the fps to drop?

[renderhjs]

of course do timeline animations need additional CPU cycles to compute so if you make your animations to heavy e.g lots of layer 10/20+ with lots of alpha fading stuff then it might indeed slow down your movie alot.

But like always it depends on the details- are the animations low CPU consuming?, are the amount of objects to be animated just a few or a few thousand?....

there are a lot of tricks to tweak the performance like converting all frames to bitmaps, or using a sprite sheet and scrollRect, pre rendered graphics,... besides just animating in the Flash IDE

[Clownfish5]

ok, thanx!