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At 4/8/05 12:26 PM, trabix wrote:

At 4/8/05 12:24 PM, cybex2 wrote: dont do sprites. theres too many already

Im not planing to make them i want them...

What he meant was, don't make a sprite movie. And he's right, don't.

I've doon some searches too and it does look like it's F5-time :D.

Repetive strain injury, here I come!

Read my tutorial

http://www.livejournal.com/~nasdaqbastardo

Best possible blur in flashMX. Need photoshop though.

K, I'll explain it.

My SWF: 12 fps. Say, my movie is 10 seconds long. That would make my movie 120 frames long. Agreed?

Now, if I were to import that into Flash, and set the framerate to 24, this is what would happen:

My SWF keeps the same amount of frames, namely 120. THe new FPS = 24. As a result, my movie speeds up: it's now exactly 5 seconds long.

K, here's the deal.

I made a 'storybook' for a flash project at my dad's place. Exported the movie as SWF, saved the fla. Sent the SWF to a bunch of friends to see what they thought. So I go back to my own place, but I forgot to upload the fla to my webserver. So I ask 1 of my friends to send me the SWF, and I import the SWF into Flash. No problems, except this: the SWF (and the fla too, of course) are 12 fps, but I animate at 24 fps.

Now there's 1 thing I could do. Manually add a frame after every frame. Unfortunately for me, the SWF is nearly 1500 frames, and "spacing" that would be a real pain in the ass. My question: is there any tool to make SWF files run at double the FPS, without the movie speeding up?

Cheers

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http://img60.exs.cx/img60/5416/pacman6hx.gif
http://img60.exs.cx/img60/9743/soldier8ms.gif
http://img60.exs.cx/img60/9834/death5ae.gif
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http://img60.exs.cx/img60/1411/wtf3kz.gif

There's a few. Self made auras, maybe I'll make some more later.

P.S. If you decide to use any of em, I don't need co-author, just my name in the credits is enough :)

To quote Willem Dafoe from the Boondock Saints:

"Sssssssymbolism"

Make use of it

At 3/15/05 04:09 PM, TwinsenDude wrote: holy crap waaaaayyy too much going on.

Only super fast computers will be able to run that kind of stuff in real time on high quality. You've got a lot of gradients and a lot of light effects with alpha. That's gonna eat processor speed like no other.

Yeah, point and click horror games tend to have lots of processor intensive animation going on

The U.S. and South Africa are the only two 'developed' countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens.

Yep, the entire world is full of communists.

Bush *headshot icon* US economy

I wrote a tutorial for this yesterday. Here.

http://newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=241738

Feel free to bump it :P

@High_Roller:

http://img223.exs.cx/img223/1448/blurreh1yh.jpg

http://www.livejournal.com/users/nasdaqbastardo/

If you have questions or comments please, like I said, just post them there. I'm there more often than I am here. Hope you guys find this useful!

You know that Flash 5, and above support MP3, right?

Your best bet is to start drawing 10 years ago, but that's rather impossible so practice practice practice! Make a sketch (I prefer light blue), then draw over it on a different layer. Try drawing the guy from Alien Hominid, plants, lamps, furniture, whatever. I like to think that you develop your own style eventually (I know I have), so I would steer clear of tutorials. But that's me.

Stop using flash's default sound. You're making my head explode. Set the framerate to 20 or 24 or whatever. Etc.

Well, quality and animation wise I'd give it a 1, and oh my god is that the newgrounds preloader on a white background? I hope you do realize that it has a white bar that shows the progress right under the logo. Anyway, you're just staring at a static scene the entire time, do you ever see that in a movie? Try using camera angles or something (yes this involves redrawing your...guy) to make it more interesting. And nobody really likes those computer voices.

If you want to make a boring tween only movie, it's possible. If you want movement and action, uhh no. You could simplify the style but judging by your knowledge of flash's limitations I would suggest reading some animation tutorials.

At 3/8/05 06:58 PM, Merlin182 wrote: i am just lookin for a pimped out phoenix lol

Try being grateful. Nice logo astropuff, I love it.

1 word buddy SPONTANEOUS SELF COMBUSTION. Have an eagle fly right through his brains.

The reason America got involved in WW2 was because of communism. Russia was breaking through the German front, leaving America scared. America couldn't care less about a Nazi Europe, but feared a communist Europe. The bombing of Dresden was like hitting 2 birds with 1 stone, the Germans were demoralized, but more importantly, America showed the Soviets what they were "capable of". That's why a lot of people call don't call it the first bombing of the Cold War rather than the last bombing of WW2. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are involved in this too, somehow. Seems like America has always has a dirty plan ready for when the shit hits the fan.

IMO :D

And yeah maybe it wasn't the right thing to do. But that's no reason for neo-nazis to be demonstrating, and recruiting new people. Quoting a survivor of the Dresden bombing, "We all know where fascism took us", and that's the damn truth \m/

At 2/15/05 08:55 PM, TitanAura wrote: w00t. Hey ya'll, I've got another little thing I just whipped up.

Check it out here

I noticed you use the eraser tool to delete parts of the body. If you want the best looking FBF, you're gonna have to F7 some keyframes and draw the stick guy from scratch every frame.

But you probably already figured this out. Keep em comin

I think there's enough movies about "future". Watrrrrrrr!

People tend to vote really high on collabs, even if there is only 1 movie that deserves the mark, I don't like that. The movies called 'collabs' are never really collaborations either, if you ask me. 5 people make something with the same theme. Well. There ain't a lot of collaboriation in that, you know what I'm saying? Oh well, they're still fun to watch anyway.

Couldn't be arsed to finish mine, but I can't wait to see the final product.

Dunworryabout your fla size, ever. Unless you're making a holy music video to a 60 minute symphony, your FBF flash won't exceed 5 MB.

Ok dude. When you press F6. You like, select the layer and hit the delete button on your keyboard. The onion skin thingy will turn transparent. An alternate way of achieving this is by pressing F7 rather than F6.

How long is your movie? I don't recommend 'removing' gradients because that's easier said than done, and it will make your movie less appealing cause of the bland colors. So yeah compress to Mp3, set the quality to 64 or something, not 128. And if it's like >7minutes, split it up.

The paintbrush is the win. Frame by frame animation with the pen tool looks so noobish.

*glances at that huge Alien Hominid banner at the top of his screen*

At 1/31/05 09:11 PM, Greedom wrote: Here's what Im up to...

Sexy \m/

Well, I've been working on my violent entry for a couple of hours now. Practically everything animated frame by frame. Heres a few screenshots.

http://img184.exs.cx/img184/1180/shades17ph.jpg
http://img184.exs.cx/img184/5181/shades26at.jpg
http://img184.exs.cx/img184/1569/shades39kd.jpg