Some flash animation questions

[Hyptosis]

Hey guys, I admit to not knowing a whole hell of a lot about flash animation, or how flash handles lots of activity on the screen, etc etc. I made this little character last night out of pieces I painted in photoshop. I'd be interested in knowing how well a game would run with a character made up of parts like this? How far would I get before there was 'too much' etc.

Plus I just kinda wanted to show him of to my art forum buddies :D

The link!
>> http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/de55 304f14f5f42534f9f4ce29769375 <<

I wouldn't mind making a side scroller some day, way in the future maybe. Also would there be a better place to post this on one of the other areas? I'm really only familiar with the art forum.

Thanks guys :D

[Hyptosis]

Oh, I wanted ot mention, there are subtle random animations, but the current weapon he's using (which is totally changable) kinda covers them up. He randomly blinks and flicks his tongue, his back toe taps like the raptors from jurassic park. His back hand will also occasionally make a fist.

[Ashman]

1 it should have been in animation, but i guess it works here too

2 performance wise it shouldnt change much unless you go crazy with it, take a lesson from mindchamber, he used raster art completely for m-bot the game, it bumps up the file size like crazy but performance wise seems the same as a vector one

[CloudObler]

In most cases a game will run better with the graphics as bitmap files and slower as vectors drawn in flash. A lot of people when making a game convert their graphics to bitmaps to optimise the flash and make it run better, there is some word for doing this but I forget what it is. So basically you shouldn't really have to worry about overdoing it with graphics if you're doing it like this.

At 4/13/11 10:24 PM, Hyptosis wrote: Also would there be a better place to post this on one of the other areas?

This would be better in the Flash forum where there are people who know way more about flash.

[ReNaeNae]

At 4/13/11 11:03 PM, CloudObler wrote: This would be better in the Flash forum where there are people who know way more about flash.

yup. looks cool though :P