Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers- P18

Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers- P18: Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available-allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to Rich Internet Applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better
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Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers- P18 OPTIMIZING AND PUBLISHING FLASH MOVIESFigure 15-14. We start by drawing a shape containing a lot of vector points. 3. Copy your shape to the clipboard. Select each of the remaining three key frames in layer 1, and select Edit ➤ Paste in Place. 4. Select the shape in frame 2, and select Modify ➤ Shape ➤ Advanced Smooth. The new Advanced Smooth dialog box, shown in Figure 15-15, opens, and not a lot seems to happen. Make sure the Preview check box is selected, set the Smoothing strength to 100, and scrub across the Smooth angle below hot text. Note the changes to the object when you change the value to one greater than 90 degrees.Figure 15-15. The new Advanced Smooth dialog box 779 www.zshareall.com CHAPTER 15 5. Select the shape in frame 3, and select Modify ➤ Shape ➤ Advanced Straighten to open the Advanced Straighten dialog box. Scrub across the Straighten strength hot text, and the curves will start to come to attention as you increase the value. 6. Select the shape in frame 4, and select Modify ➤ Shape ➤ Optimize. This time, you are presented with the Optimize Curves dialog box. Select Show totals message and Preview. Move the slider all the way to the top, and click OK. The dialog box will close and be replaced by an alert box, telling you how many curves were found, how many were optimized, and the size of the reduction as a result of the optimization (see Figure 15-16).This book was purchased by flashfast1@gmail.com Figure 15-16. Using shape optimization 7. Test the movie. The graph shows you the file size of the content in each frame and the effect that modifying the shape has in each frame. As you can see in Figure 15-17, the results are quite dramatic. 780 www.zshareall.com OPTIMIZING AND PUBLISHING FLASH MOVIESFigure 15-17. Smoothing, straightening, and optimizing curves can have a profound effect on downloadtimes.You are most likely looking at the graph and thinking, “Wow, I am going to start optimizing all of my vectorshapes!” Not so fast. Each of the three methods presented did a good thing and a bad thing. They didindeed reduce the bandwidth load. However, they also introduced distortions into the image. If you arehappy with the distortions, fine. If you aren’t, then you might want to consider doing the optimizationmanually, by selecting the shape with the Subselection tool and manipulating the shape and the points.So, why was there such a drop in the graph between the object in frame 1 and its counterpart in frame 4?Remember that vector nodes require bandwidth. You removed a few of them using the OptimizeCurves dialog box, which accounts for the drop in required bandwidth.If you import vector artwork from outside sources, such as Illustrator files, you may find shape optimizationquite challenging. Obviously, it depends on the intricacy of the artwork, but industrial-strength tools likeIllustrator CS5 naturally have more complex features than the drawing tools provided by Flash. WhenFlash imports vectors from other tools, it does its best to “translate” those anchor points into the “language”it uses internally. 781 www.zshareall.com CHAPTER 15 This can lead to some rather interesting missteps between Illustrator CS5 and Flash CS5. You can see this in Figure 15-18. The image on the left is the image, on the Illustrator CS5 page, as it was drawn in Illustrator CS5 using the Extrude filter and a ...