simple question: flash vs director

[marmotte]

about flash and director:

thats like compairing a mini cooper with a fully kitted out Audi R6

^ that was a comparison oriented about scripts

now, my question is:

in term of fluidity (framerate) what about director? i used it one year ago, doing a game essentially with .swf files (that was maybe not a good solution, but that's what i did), but it was a little bit slower than a normal .swf game, in my opinion...

...what if i used gifs?
an example: as you probably know, i'm currently doing a fighting game (http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/ga...r_fighter.html). that game is done with a lot of gifs (i mean, there's no tweens, no gradients...). but the scrolling seems to slow down the game, depending the power of your computer.
now, i want to know, if i did that game with director, will it slow down less, or much? maybe someone that knows the two programs has an idea?

thanks

[hexagone]

It would probably be faster in director. The only problem with director is that you need to by a plugin to make the bitmap edges smooth enough which is a real pain.If the fps of your game is too high though you will have the same problem that you are getting at the moment
hexagone

[jeroen84]

Director is much(!) faster with manipulation graphics(pixel) then Flash.

I've seen a scrolling test once. Director was fasts with scrolling a gif. Director scrolling an SWF was slower.

[marmotte]

well, if i remember correctly, i used .swf files in director because the gifs were awful (with a white border around the characters), and that's why i choose to do it that way.

now about the plug-in, i'll look for it and some screenshots, thanks hexagone.

but, the fact is:
1) i'm still very newbie with director
2) the publication is not a cross platform file, i think

[devnull_2k]

Although I haven't seen numbers, Director is way faster.

And you can do SO many cool things in Lingo. Its definately a bit harder to code in, but once you get the hang of stuff, you'll love it. I've been meaning to do something significant in it.