Clarifacation please...

[Hero101]

Two questions:

1) If I make an animation with Flash 8 (which is what I use) does that mean users need to have Flash 8 as well to view my animation because I see those animations where the animator posts "Flash 8 required"? Please enlighten me.

2) Also I see animators post "Graphic heavy" to warn users they might need to lower the quality to Med or Low. I have never had trouble with such animations but how do I know if my animation is "Graphic heavy" enough to warn people?

Thank you in advance :-)

[The-Commissar]

At 3/2/07 11:28 PM, Hero101 wrote: Two questions:

1) If I make an animation with Flash 8 (which is what I use) does that mean users need to have Flash 8 as well to view my animation because I see those animations where the animator posts "Flash 8 required"? Please enlighten me.

If you made the animation in Flash 8, viewers will need Flash 8 to view it.

2) Also I see animators post "Graphic heavy" to warn users they might need to lower the quality to Med or Low. I have never had trouble with such animations but how do I know if my animation is "Graphic heavy" enough to warn people?

That means if there are a lot of advance graphics and everything that it slows down bad computers if it's on High quality. Kind of like lag on online games like CS or Halo.

[Vengeance]

No, if you made the animation in flash 8, then the users need flash player 8 to view it. Not the compiling program.
As for graphic heavy, find someone, show them your animation and see if it lags. If it does, then post it up with 'reccomended medium or low quality'. If it doesn't, don't.

[deltatsunami]

do the users need flash 8?

no, just the plug in. It also depends how you compile your work. If you publish it as a flash 6 file, you will just need flash 6. However, if you are using flash 8's features and compile it as flash 8, the viewer must need flash 8.

Unless you are using flash's filters (which I don't recommend) or advanced actionscript 2.0 or advanced video compression, I would publish it in a lower version just to make sure that users with crappy computers/internet (such as chinese people; I'm insulting myself! XD) can view the flash.

how would you know if your movie is graphic heavy?

Are you using any of flash 8 built in filters? well, guess what, just a simple drop shadow will increase the graphic heavy bar by a little. Don't use flash 8's filters! use pngs! If you are animating frame-by-frame and animate a lot of objects (foreground and background). then the meter of graphic heavy will increase!

A good way to test, export it. And then go to the folder in which you exported it in. Open your flash file. View it once w/ high quality. then view it again with low quality. is there a difference? Note your processor level. Have your friedns with different processors view it. or go to the library and view your movie. Note each processor level. When finally you determine which processor can view teh movie the same with high and low quality, note it. Most people right now have 2.00+ processors. If it is something like 2.20 and above, it's graphic intensive.