- anti-alias on/off switch for every symbol
- pitch control and basic tracker functionalities for sounds
- embed html and images as external files
besos
kevin pistone
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- anti-alias on/off switch for every symbol
- pitch control and basic tracker functionalities for sounds
- embed html and images as external files
besos
kevin pistone
Im serious OpenGL would be cool for flash 6. Think about it if OpenGL was integrated that means OpenML the multimedia would be allowed and your .av .mov and mpeg could be in your flash. Also I bet the people who make games with flash would find the OpenGL would be refreshing and give them a new look. Also Directx could also be involved to help which would make games on flash be more alive. Hey I dont have a problem if you could play a flash version quake online with other, I think it would be cool!!!!
- I would like to see an easier to use Help file. Put it in english that normal knuckleheads can understand...like me! :) Describing Actionscripts a little better as well. I'm still lost on some of them.
- Text Animation capabilities within Flash 6 like Swish or FlashTyper.
- Picture resize editing more user friendly. Flash 5 has it when you change the size, it leaves the original there and you have to move...delete...move back...and see if that's the size you want.
- Cool 3D animation creation tools. I have yet to find them. If they're in the program of Flash 5...I don't know where or how to use them. I'm tired of switching between programs to make a picture and going back. I guess I'm lazy?
That's all...I think.
It has been more or less impossible to synchronize sounds properly in Flash, for as long as it has existed. With the new Sound objects, I had hoped that this would become possible, but no.
If it were possible to synchronize loops of equal length, then you would be able to take a bunch of loops and fade them up and down over time to create something a bit closer to real background music. Simply having a looping piece of music on every webpage gets so incredibly boring.
Ofcourse, what would be even cooler, was if MacroMedia would take the full step, and incorporate an MO3 player. Ian Luck provides a free encoder for MO3 files, and a player library for windows:
http://www.un4seen.com/music/
For those who know what XM, IT and MOD files are, MO3 files are basically mods where the samples have been packed using MP3 ... a good piece of mod music takes up something like 250-500 KByte ... the same files with MO3 compression take up 25-50 KByte, making them extremely suitable for use on the internet - download in seconds would become possible.
No matter what, music should definitely be the next big thing incorporated into Flash ... by now, we have excellent scripting opportunities, we can create stunning graphics, animation and interactivity - the only thing still lacking badly is music ... you can't dazzle the audience with a short, looping piece of music - no matter how good it is, it WILL get annoying to hear the same loop over and over again, and given the opportunity, most users will disable background music after a few loops.
So please, MacroMedia! Give us music! In a compact, streaming format ... it could be loop-based (it's hardly any work to program) and include just the basic, low-load effects like panning, filtering and delay ...
On a final note, don't waste your time with MIDI support - it's useless ... there are too many different MIDI synthesizers out there to predict the results on each browser with any useful propability. Forget MIDI. I don't hope that's what you're planning? ;)
Hey guys and gals...
A question: How hard would it be to get the nice folks at macromedia to make the highlighting of timeline frames possible with the arrow keys and the shift tab?
This is something I have been wondering about...
If flash 6 can do this I will be thrilled
cheers:)
I think that It shoul be free - call me crazy but i do :)
Here Here!Quote:
Originally posted by mindplay
It has been more or less impossible to synchronize sounds properly in Flash, for as long as it has existed. With the new Sound objects, I had hoped that this would become possible, but no.
If it were possible to synchronize loops of equal length, then you would be able to take a bunch of loops and fade them up and down over time to create something a bit closer to real background music. Simply having a looping piece of music on every webpage gets so incredibly boring.
Ofcourse, what would be even cooler, was if MacroMedia would take the full step, and incorporate an MO3 player. Ian Luck provides a free encoder for MO3 files, and a player library for windows:
http://www.un4seen.com/music/
For those who know what XM, IT and MOD files are, MO3 files are basically mods where the samples have been packed using MP3 ... a good piece of mod music takes up something like 250-500 KByte ... the same files with MO3 compression take up 25-50 KByte, making them extremely suitable for use on the internet - download in seconds would become possible.
No matter what, music should definitely be the next big thing incorporated into Flash ... by now, we have excellent scripting opportunities, we can create stunning graphics, animation and interactivity - the only thing still lacking badly is music ... you can't dazzle the audience with a short, looping piece of music - no matter how good it is, it WILL get annoying to hear the same loop over and over again, and given the opportunity, most users will disable background music after a few loops.
So please, MacroMedia! Give us music! In a compact, streaming format ... it could be loop-based (it's hardly any work to program) and include just the basic, low-load effects like panning, filtering and delay ...
On a final note, don't waste your time with MIDI support - it's useless ... there are too many different MIDI synthesizers out there to predict the results on each browser with any useful propability. Forget MIDI. I don't hope that's what you're planning? ;)
This is the most important thing!
but Back / Forward buttons that traced your movements through movie levels would be nice
Quite simple:
Build in Motion Guides into every layer, so that no "Guide Layer" needs to be added.
Then, when adding a motion tween, a guide is automatically placed as a bezier curve above - initially as a straight line of course.
The beauty part is, that the guide will not be needed for all anims, but when it's built in, it will not only be easier to use, it will be so easy to use that most animations will look better.
The ability to use externally referenced image files.
Similar to Loadmovie in location, I want load image in location - dynamic Flash sites without generator...
Flash 6 needs to be totally in sync with 5, my old Flash 4 stuff did not like Flash 5 very much and there were several errors.
Hi there,
Being a professional sound engineer working for a company in the UK that produces radio, tv and all manner of advertising Jingles and stings, I would really like to see better support for sound within Flash. More effects, ability to use parts of a sound instead of whole sound, tight integration of loops to keep all in time together, MIDI support and perhaps Flash could even integrate some sort of audio synthesizer within flash with built in sounds like MIDI that you could create your own sounds for and create dazzling music with low overhead costs.
Oh well I'm sure whatever Macromedia comes up with shouldn't be all that bad. They've done pretty well so far!
Mark Bowen
a quality 3d engine..
Whheeellll it seems obvious to me, flash 6 should have (like Dreamweaver) a Nice little ability to make plug ins! or even macros. Far too often i'm stuck doing some monotinous as heck thing,that could be soo much faster if i could write a plug in for it. anyway.. there my input. for what its worth.. or not worth...
Hi everybody
What I would like to see in Flash 6 is a 3d engine and the integration of Swish. Another thing is the interface of Flash 4 concerning gradients.
This is what I have to say at this moment...
Howzabout being able to 'Control-click' multiple items in the library window and having a 'move items to existing folder' menu option (currently you can only do this for a 'new folder'). Would sure beat scrolling up and down to find the folder, then dragging everything into it (after having dropped your multiple selections at least twice in searching for the folder).
I sound like a broken record but...
1.) An output window that behaves more like Director's
2.) An actionscript window, that behaves more like Director's
***4.) Microsoft ASF/ASX format support for streaming live media with Flash content....thought I can't think of a good use for it at the moment.
A 3D engine that will allow you to import 3D files created in other programs.
I liked the actionscript interface in flash 4 better, but I guess with the additions to actionscript in flash 5, there probably isn't a way to go back to that.
A non-html help file. It would be much easier if we could search for topics.
Tutorials on more advanced topics.
Jaime :)
I NEED A 'SEARCH'-OPTION THAT SEARCHES ALL ACTIONS IN A WHOLE MOVIE FOR A SPECIAL EXPRESSION OR KEYWORD USED -NOT ONLY ONE KEYFRAME!!
-Additionally, it'd be great to search for VARIABLE NAMES to appear throughout a movie (and I don't mean the crappy built-in debugging functionality!)
-Remove all the Mac-style floating panles with their miniature buttons and sliders (that reduces my working speed to almost the half!!)
-And (to say it again and again): BETTER PERFORMANCE!!!
Mike
1) Support for loading JPG. PNG images just like loading variables
2)Actionscript code window is great but should have code wrap around. so that we don't have keep a massive wide actionscript window for long codes.
3)I don't see many people complaining about it but I am gonna do it. The colour palette in Flash 5 sucs. Flash 4 colour selection was better. easier.
well thats it for now
It may seem a bit silly but I think a paintbrush would be extreamly helpful. Fully adjustable of course
I know its already been mentioned in the thread, but still a quality 3D engine would be a very big imporvement. Also I really like swish, I think Flash 6 should have these features built in by default. Probably too late now.
1. Add Plug-ins just like Photoshop, coreldraw etc, so that we can use more Third Party tools to accomplish our cool effects.
2. Make 3D animation easily with little actionscripts, better support 3D rendering.
3. More powerful in image and graphics manipulation.
4. More functions and freedom in actionscripts.
5. the timeline of flash5 is weird, it seems not better than flash4.
6. Easier to learn and use.
7. within some simple text effects to improve our work efficiency.
8. merge Swish, Vecta3D, KoolMovies etc.
9. Good support with Chinese.
10.within more good tools for sound edit.
11.Improve the function of converting bitmap to vector graphics.
12.Make clear the Document Object Model(DOM), so that we can fully understand the structure of flash and control every object in the project freely.
13.Add commands menu just like dreamweaver to record actions.
14.Add templates with some wizards to generate flash for newbies.
What if you can assign variables, imgs, etc etc to your movie? if you can program using ASP or PHP then you can change your text and imgs and stuff dynamically like the generator but using server side scripting.
You would asign everything like using client-side JavaScript
example:
<html>
<body>
/*
declaration are char=strings int=integer img=images array=array, etc.
*/
<SCRIPT "flash">
//declare
char textbox;
array arraytext;
img imagebox;
//asign
//here we asign some text to a text box
textbox = "here's some text";
//here we asign an image
imagebox = "http://www.flashkit.com/imgs/image.jpg";
//here we asign text to an array
arraytext[0] = "john";
arraytext[1] = "pepe";
arraytext[2] = "Lewis";
</script>
Here are the vars loaded in the movie, just see the movie:<br>
<here goes the whole swf loading code>
so when the flash movie loads it will load all the variables, it will be like almost fully integrating client-side Javascript to movies so you can play with data with Javascript and then display the JS variables into a flash movie, so you would be able to change everything using ASP or PHP like loading data and imgs from a database, that way the movie would read everything from the html file and that way it would make the movie dynamic.
That would be so cool!!! and I know that all the designers and site developers would just love this!!!
Full html support, maybe merging dreamweaver and flash would be toooooo much to ask for, would be good though. and why is a program like swish not already incorporated??, macromedia, friends, buddys, get it sorted.
I would like the ability to control the Tab order of text input fields when used in a form, as well as the ability to keep a Tab from selecting a button.
I would like the feature in LiveMotion that allows you to tween the different properties of a movie clip inividually. For instance, you can tween a clip's scale over 30 frames while tweening its alpha over only the first 15 frames.
There needs to be more HTML tags recognized in a text field than just the standard bold, italic, etc... I would like to see superscript, subscript, and other less prominent tags supported.
The Movie Explorer text search feature does not always find the text you enter in, even if the text is used in the movie. The print feature of the Movie Explorer needs to be more customizable. Such as selecting font and/or font size, and the ability to print only the ActionScripts in a movie.
There needs to be a global search/replace feature for both text and all movie elements (graphics, movie clips, sounds).
Less panels. It works great in Illustrator, but not as well in Flash. Everything seems to move slower, especially if you are working on a large flash file or just have a small monitor like I do. Maybe incorporate the instance name, fill and stroke, etc. into a toolbar.
Jaime :)
I suppose a Z dimension would be too much to ask for?
I have a few small wishes:
* add the ability to skew using actionscript. That would solve a lot of the 3D-support stuff
* add support for creating polygons and other shapes using actionsscript
* a faster player (if possible)
* unicode support
/niklas
protocol7.com
A big 'AMEN' to being able to set the tab order for your fields. I've done several jobs where i've actually had to compromise the design/layout just to get the fields tabbing in the right order.
um....hmmm (thinking)!
with the debugger, it should have an option to save the changed settings that you changed on your site, because that damn generator cost tooooooooooooooooooooo damn much!!!
i will think up more.
I think Flash 6 should have something like the
shockwave multiuser server as an addon
Cool eh
Common libraries eg buttons.lib - can be opened by several swf -reduce swf size and ease cohesive site design.
Combine layers function - aid in drawing
less colour palettes - just keep the mixer palette and dump the rest - remove current confusion
My Mac is frezzing all the time with Flash 5, I dont know if its a compatibility problem but i dont think so other than Macs and Flash 6 incompatibility..Im getting constant system frezzzzz uppps. Total lock downs...not happing all the time, but enough to alway expect it to happen most of the time. *******FIX THIS BEFORE FLASH 6..with a patch or something. Other than that copy paste layers that maintain there names...maybe im doing somthing wrong but when i copy and past layers all the layer lables go away..and i have to rename them. ...a problem..or at least a pain in the kester.
Other than that It good...not great until my Mac stops frezzing up.
MindQuest
Good Idea !! :-)Quote:
Originally posted by the bubba
Some new effects for drawing - to create more complex and not so cartoon looking images...
Flash can only create simple lines and shapes and cartoon like stuff. Progs like Photoshop can create realistic looking effects and has cool filters and plug-ins.
I know this sounds crazy, but maybe it would mean a giant leap in Flash technology and internet technology...
... now users need to use outher Programms for that.
Yes, thats Cool eh :-)Quote:
Originally posted by rahul696
I think Flash 6 should have something like the
shockwave multiuser server as an addon
Cool eh
This is one of the biggest threads i have ever seen...
This is the biggest thread ever in flashkit. 16 damn pages wow. I guess people are disatisfied of flash 5 either that or they are looking for some monumental changes in flash 6.
I want to mainly see support for 3d desiging
This is far from the largest thread ever at the kit :) The one on elvis and his true idenity was the largest.
I would like to see a free case of Carona with every purchase of flash 6.
What i would like to see in flash 6 is what most of us dream about...
An interface including some kind of "3d studio low polygonal rendering" (feature supported as well by the eventually new flash 6 player).
But as I don't beleive in Santa Claus, a simple perspective tool would make my day...
and maybe... What about some full asp or java "built in" function so we'd spent more time creating instead of being on the phone with the programmer that don't have any idea of what i'm talking about according to flash!
Cheers everyone.
Steve Paradis
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