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New Flash 8 Studio
Hey flash kit members,
Is it just myself, or can you see adobe taking over macromedia a huge disaster? After watching the overview for the new flash 8 the only new changes made are for design and video elements. What about enhancements for the animaters and developer’s, these people are the core behind the whole flash existence? Livemotion was a good example of adobe’s animation and development potential for the web. What a heap of ****!!!.
You won’t see me buying the upgrade.
D.
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curmudgeon
the last version had major developments in it for programmers/developers. I guess animators will have to wait their turn until the next version
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Retired SCORM Guru
It's just you. Adobe isn't stupid. They're not gutting the product teams.
If you watched the feature tour you'd see some decent features for animators, like ink modes, effects and tween curves. Not to mention alpha support in video.
MX2K4 was the big release for developers with AS2.0 dropping.
"What really bugs me is that my mom had the audacity to call Flash Kit a bunch of 'inept jack-asses'." - sk8Krog
...and now I have tape all over my face.
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Mabie i should scrap up on my livemotion skills before moving from MX2004 PRO to flash 8 or later. Adobe will butcher a good piece of software just give it time.
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Senior Member
Check out the News Forum for more details on this release.
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/delurk
I'm curious as to what features you would like to see for animators. There are a bunch of features packed into the IDE this release that I could see animators taking advantage of.
That goes the same for developers. Have you fully explored the capabilities of AS2 and integration with server-side tech &c? The performance improvements coupled with cacheAsBitmap alone are enough to get this developer to upgrade.
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for the win
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Senior Member
I can't wait for Flash file up- and downloads. Then finally you can develop full featured applications in the browser.
Vincent
SWIS BV
Last edited by Markp.com on 07-23-2003 at 02:25 AM
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Retired Mod
Originally Posted by flash_joker
Mabie i should scrap up on my livemotion skills before moving from MX2004 PRO to flash 8 or later. Adobe will butcher a good piece of software just give it time.
Oh please, stop trolling.
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Senior Member
Quite ironic that these new improvements to Flash were things people wanted before Flash 5 came out. Everyone wanted aspects of Photoshop combined with Flash to take much of the hard work out of it.
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Hairy Member
Originally Posted by gSOLO_01
bleeeeeeeh
Haven't seen that name in aaaaaages!
"Wah wah wah Dorothy Parker wah wah wah" - hanratty21
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Retired Mod
I think those people are happy now, but people like me that wish it would focus on being an authoring environment where graphic elements are imported are a little worried that it's becoming bloated.
The thing that I always remember from those wish threads are the endless requests for flash to come with a 3d engine....
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~bleh~
From what I've seen I'm extremely impressed with this new flash version. All of the new bitmap rendering aspects are amazing, some of the movies I've seen could easily be confused for director movies.
ie:
http://www.rgblaster.de/ff/f8toys3.html
http://bellat.pair.com/maximov2/f8/blur01.swf
http://www.margaris.de/flash8/bitmap/bitmapcache.html
For more droolworthy viewing try this list:
http://www.franto.com/blog2/collecte...strom-examples
I can definitely see animators making great use of this type of stuff. Game developers should be freaking with the new bitmap capabilities. I know some of the built in filters have potential to be overused and cheesy, but I can definitely see them being put to some interesting uses.
Video integration is a lot more indepth, and looks like they're also giving you more control over text rendering and appearance. Text is looking far less blurry.
Best of all, they've gone back to the old style of 'undo' in the authoring environment which they screwed up in MX2004.
Definitely one of their more impressive releases.
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Have patience young child. Dont be so hasty to make assumptions about something you oviously dont know alot about. There are alot of things for developers and animators in this release. Namely:
Animators:
Custom Easing
Filters
Blend Modes
Object Drawing Model
Developers:
Script Assist
BitmapData API
Bitmap Caching + opaqueBackground + scrollRect
flash.geom.* API's
Movieclip transformations (mc.transform)
File Upload/Download
and lots lots more....
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Mental Ward Patient
Originally Posted by stevietat
From what I've seen I'm extremely impressed with this new flash version. All of the new bitmap rendering aspects are amazing, some of the movies I've seen could easily be confused for director movies.
ie:
http://www.rgblaster.de/ff/f8toys3.html
http://bellat.pair.com/maximov2/f8/blur01.swf
http://www.margaris.de/flash8/bitmap/bitmapcache.html
For more droolworthy viewing try this list:
http://www.franto.com/blog2/collecte...strom-examples
I can definitely see animators making great use of this type of stuff. Game developers should be freaking with the new bitmap capabilities. I know some of the built in filters have potential to be overused and cheesy, but I can definitely see them being put to some interesting uses.
Video integration is a lot more indepth, and looks like they're also giving you more control over text rendering and appearance. Text is looking far less blurry.
Best of all, they've gone back to the old style of 'undo' in the authoring environment which they screwed up in MX2004.
Definitely one of their more impressive releases.
Wow, whats with this bitmap rendering? I've got no idea how to do graphics like that. Cant wait till #8.
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Huygens to Titan
here is an email i got with great screens
Flash 8 Screenshots
http://www.flashmagazine.com/1132.htm
Flash 8 Review
http://www.flashmagazine.com/1131.htm
Flash 8 revealed
http://www.flashmagazine.com/1130.htm
Preorder your copy of Flash 8 today
http://www.flashmagazine.com/1129.htm
NeoSwiff shaping up
http://www.flashmagazine.com/1126.htm
SUSHI Multiuser Server Version 2.2 released http://www.flashmagazine.com/1125.htm
Flash Player 8 Public Beta
http://www.flashmagazine.com/1123.htm
Flash Forward Film Festival Winners
http://www.flashmagazine.com/1122.htm
The page is not working now for some reason, but check it later.
All out of Honey Buffers, so i grabed a few Goose Heads
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associate
nice
With the new upload functions, the Browse-dialogue can be triggered directly from Flash using the simple command "browse();" That's it. Only two windows for novice users to relate to. There's plenty of events to listen for such as "onProgress" that will allow you to make progress bars and "onHTTPError", "onIOError" and "onSecurityError" to allow for error handling.
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pablo cruisin'
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supervillain
I just want better stability, a Library palette that remembers it's position automatically - I don't wanna hear that whole layout, do this, do that... blah blah yackity smackity... do it automatic, dammit.
The other features... I'm a PS fanatic, so those are all pluses for me. But I just want it to work better than MX 2004 did.
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associate
Originally Posted by gerbick
a Library palette that remembers it's position automatically
you can pin the current library so that it stays on screen
Great links guys.
Thanks.
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