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You can use ALL Flash MX actionscript commands in 3DFA. Just look into flash documentation or use google. This is important to know. The syntax is mostly the same.
My opinion: There is absolutely nothing you can't do with 3DFA that you can do with FlashMX editor. ;)
well , i guess there isnt although scripting is far from being my specialty .... and ive never used flashMX but from what i understand it should be the best tool for flash making , why would anyone with flashMX would care using 3DFA which is a complet toy comparing ?
3DFA is by far the easiest application to use when it comes to creating flash animations. It's price is also less than 1/10th of the price of flashMX which makes it more attractive to most users (even when comparing the educational pricing).
3dfa's code is NOT exactly the same as Flash Actionscript. It is very close to AS1.0 but there are many differences mostly related tot he difference in interface and lack of a timeline per se.
When the layer bugs and the loadMovie bugs are fixed then indeed there is little 3dfa cannot do.
There are some very nice features in FlashMX2004 that are not available anywhere else just yet, but much of that is not essential.
well i cant disagree about the scripting part , the one thing i can tell you is that im currently very unhappy with the animationing part , it suffers from some nasty bugs and its frankly a toy comparing what you could see out there...
That is your opinion. I have converted most code from flash to 3dfa. Actionscript is the key. It is not exactly the same code. But thrust me you can use any actionscript code. it doesn't matter if 3dfa can do it. the flash player CAN!
The possibilities for designing in 3dfa are much more comfortable than in flash.
And blanius: do you remember my pixel font problem? just read flash tuts for this. reading flash tuts is the solution for everything in 3dfa. programming skills are required.
before 3dfa i worked with flash. since 3dfa is released flash does not make any sense for me. 3dfa is a toy on the first look. but if you understand actionscripting everything is possible. what do you need for a good flash site? first ideas:), nice graphics, some sounds, maybe database connection...and the important thing: actionscript.
and once again. you can use the complete actionscript code of flash in 3dfa. only one example is getDepth()
say what you want. I only want to tell you that you can use most actionscript commands in 3dfa. believe it or use flash. does not matter :P
well , if you could give me a sulotion for that annoying "unclosed lines" syndrom (when a shape appeer to be closed on 3DFA and after export it doesnt ...) i wont leave 3DFA eventualy... i just want it to work , thats all....
that bug is my biggst pain in the ass
Please describe it more.
this is a complete list of actionscript commands in flash. MOST of them are working. it does not matter that you use 3dfa or swish or anything else which interprets flash.
another importand thing if you use 3dfa:
NEVER. AGAIN: NEVER USE PREVIEW IN 3DFA. Always export to SWF and show it in your browser!
I Agree here totaly.Quote:
Originally posted by lopez1_de
another importand thing if you use 3dfa:
NEVER. AGAIN: NEVER USE PREVIEW IN 3DFA. Always export to SWF and show it in your browser!
well the bug is : you creat a shap with nither lines tool or the other tool that does the same effect , you fill up the shap with any colour , when you run the movie at 3DFA it plays just fine , the lines are stiff and closed ,however once you export the movie the lines are being re-opened so the filling lituraly spilling out of the shape like a tiny lines ...
as for the preview thing , why wont i ? isnt it supposed to help the browser to play the movie more smothly by pre-reloading the movie ?
sorry. my english is not the best. i come from germany. ;)
but if you give me a little example file of the "bug" i will try to fix it. blanius will do it also. or did he tried to help you already?
but please open a new thread for this problem please. or did you already? place a link here pleace. thank you.
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the preview in 3dfa is bulls***. :) never use it. because:
- most actionscript in 3dfa preview will NOT work!
- the SPEED is very very LOW
- it NOT not WYSIWYG
export movies to SWF and show in in the browser. because:
- all actionscript from flash player 6 is working well
- the speed is perfect
- you see what you get ;)
- ...but it needs more time to test, because you must export and preview, export and preview, export.... if you have a huge movie it takes a lot of time. if you got some experience in 3dfa (or swish or flash or ...) you can use multiple movies and load one or more into your main movie. thats the trick how to make hughe movies without have too long loading times. always load pictures, big content, big text and sounds from outside SWF. if you don't like to use actionscripting: 3dfa supports external file loading from the GUI.
Actually there are problems with the current loaded movies in 3dfa, For what ever reason the actions are not getting passed to the loaded movie. Rob has promised a fix soon but I don't know when.
This was the one bug that kept me from using 3dfa to build my current flash site.
Yes. I noticed that too. This is a big problem if you want multiple movies and you want that all movies can exchange variables. But I don't really need to do this.
When you talked with Rob? How long is it ago?
Call me the greatest!!! :) hrhrhrhrQuote:
Originally posted by blanius
Actually there are problems with the current loaded movies in 3dfa, For what ever reason the actions are not getting passed to the loaded movie. Rob has promised a fix soon but I don't know when.
This was the one bug that kept me from using 3dfa to build my current flash site.
this problem is solved!!!
I told you everything is like in flash! I read a guide for flash and build it in 3dfa. All is the same for 3dfa and flash. ALL. there is absolutely NOTHING which is better or to do in another way in flash ;)
the trick is to have a hidden movie in your main movie which is replacing the by loaded movie... hrhr
what are you saying now blanius :)
Way to go. That is a good work around and I have to admit I hadn't thought of that. It should still work with created movies but again good work around if it works.
this is the only way to do it. in flash also ;)
it does no matter if you already have completed your movie. just make a loader.swf which load all content and you can access all variables.
Don't tell lies, at this moment, 3DFA is not fully compatible with real actionScript. Lot of simple action scripts don't work with 3DFA or need to be rewritten with a language that is a mix.
Compared to KoolMoves or Glanda ..3DFA has the most bad actionscripting tool !
And movies created with 3DFA can't be loaded or imported in other tools ! That causes a crash !!
I hope that will change ! but time is turning !! always and always and no fixes, no updates...nothing ! just some news...but nothing behind !
This shows that you don't have the experience. OK, the code is a bit different. But give me only one actionscript command which 3dfa don't have. You will find none.Quote:
Originally posted by Glops
Don't tell lies.
Don't compare 3dfa with others. The thread talks about 3dfa and not coolmove. I tried all, and I bought FlashMX. But I'm using 3dfa. Everyone must decide for himself which one is the best. that you can't load 3dfa movies into other application is true. but who want to load them into coolmoves?
you can find an example that this is true here:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=532690
Works perfectly.
I just changed the original MX script so that 'add' was replaced with '+' and '_root' was replaced with 'root' and everything worked perfectly.
Genius.
Well done.
PS - Looks like I'll be binning this trial version of MX then :D It was way too hard to use :D
Tell THAT to cyber reaper! If he/she/it gets a hold of this post now, he'll/she'll/it'll regret having DITCHED us!!! :mad:
Oh Joy of Joys.
I just read the rest of this thread again, and spotted the bit about being able to use 'getDepths'. That could make life much easier on loads of my animations. If only I'd know this stuff a year ago, when Rui and I did a load of manipulation with SwapDepths.
It's like I've had my eyes opened for the first time !
Morgan.
Don't know what you meen because I don't understand you. (I'm a german) :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by JSDvs9172
Tell THAT to cyber reaper! If he/she/it gets a hold of this post now, he'll/she'll/it'll regret having DITCHED us!!! :mad:
What I mean is the bugger stopped using 3DFA primarilly (or so it seems), but what I didn't say is that the lunkhead is still providing help here so it's not a total loss.
You can read the stooge's explanation here:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=612879