Vcam lagging my life away

[Sound-O-Vision]

Hey,

I'm using an AS3 vCam i found in my flash movie adnit's making the FPS like 2 in some scenes and just making everything really slow (when I export it as a SWF).

I've got some glows and some blend modes, but nothing over the top.

Anyone ever had this problem? Know a workaround? Know a better vCam? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Jimp]

At 7/25/08 06:58 PM, Sound-O-Vision wrote: Hey,

I'm using an AS3 vCam i found in my flash movie adnit's making the FPS like 2 in some scenes and just making everything really slow (when I export it as a SWF).

I've got some glows and some blend modes, but nothing over the top.

Anyone ever had this problem? Know a workaround? Know a better vCam? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You tried optimising your shapes?if you have complicated drawings, optimising them can make it take up a fraction of the memory and loose almost no image quality (in fact some times it makes things look better).

[Sound-O-Vision]

At 7/25/08 07:05 PM, J1mp wrote:

At 7/25/08 06:58 PM, Sound-O-Vision wrote: Hey,

I'm using an AS3 vCam i found in my flash movie adnit's making the FPS like 2 in some scenes and just making everything really slow (when I export it as a SWF).

I've got some glows and some blend modes, but nothing over the top.

Anyone ever had this problem? Know a workaround? Know a better vCam? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You tried optimising your shapes?if you have complicated drawings, optimising them can make it take up a fraction of the memory and loose almost no image quality (in fact some times it makes things look better).

Good suggestion. I've done that on some, but it's still lag-tastic. It's strange because if I manually tween everything, it looks great, but if i utalize the vCam, even for straight cuts, things start to lag.

Can anyone recommend a good AS3 vcam? Maybe mine is just wack.

[Super-Yombario]

Dude, it's not the Vcam... You could have a stick movie, and with enough sticks, a Vcam will lag it.

[GustTheASGuy]

Post the vcam code?

[Sound-O-Vision]

At 7/26/08 04:38 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Post the vcam code?

vCam Code (txt)

[Ansel]

At 7/26/08 04:31 PM, Super-Yombario wrote: Dude, it's not the Vcam... You could have a stick movie, and with enough sticks, a Vcam will lag it.

KINDLY LEARN TO READ BEFORE POSTING AGAIN THANKS

anyway, I don't know much about AS3. If tweening everything onstage doesn't lag and the Vcam does, there's probably something tripping up the Cam for some reason. Try using different versions of it. There's a downloadable CS3 extension that lets you create a cam instantly in AS2 or AS3. I'd suggest using that one.

[Super-Yombario]

Yes, you should. like i said, lagging is a fallback of the vcam.

[Objection]

I'm sure that it would be possible to get the same effects of the flash without a vcam. I've managed it for quite a while.

[Sound-O-Vision]

anyway, I don't know much about AS3. If tweening everything onstage doesn't lag and the Vcam does, there's probably something tripping up the Cam for some reason. Try using different versions of it. There's a downloadable CS3 extension that lets you create a cam instantly in AS2 or AS3. I'd suggest using that one.

where can I find said extension?

[Ansel]

At 7/26/08 05:34 PM, Sound-O-Vision wrote:

anyway, I don't know much about AS3. If tweening everything onstage doesn't lag and the Vcam does, there's probably something tripping up the Cam for some reason. Try using different versions of it. There's a downloadable CS3 extension that lets you create a cam instantly in AS2 or AS3. I'd suggest using that one.

where can I find said extension?

I think this is the one I downloaded.

[mayoarm11]

I'm sorry if this is off-topic or what not, but would anyone please explain to me what a v-cam is / does?

thank you.

[BoxMaster]

At 7/26/08 05:41 PM, mayoarm11 wrote: I'm sorry if this is off-topic or what not, but would anyone please explain to me what a v-cam is / does?

thank you.

It's a MovieClip with actionscript that overrides the stage.

Basicly, it's a rectangle that you can put anywhere in your flash movie and have whatever it's over be what you see.

[ghost741]

I made a Vcam (I called an Fcam :p), with much less code than that. Its good for basic zooming, panning, and rotating.

onEnterFrame = function () {
var CamX;
var CamY;
CamX = CamX+(_x-CamX)/50;
_root._x = Stage.width/2-CamX;
CamY = CamY+(_y-CamY)/50;
_root._y = Stage.height/2-CamY;
}

[ghost741]

Crap sorry for the double post.

I guess I should read the whole thing before replying. Didn't realize your working in AS3.
Sorry.

[mayoarm11]

At 7/26/08 07:02 PM, BoxMaster wrote:

At 7/26/08 05:41 PM, mayoarm11 wrote: I'm sorry if this is off-topic or what not, but would anyone please explain to me what a v-cam is / does?

thank you.

It's a MovieClip with actionscript that overrides the stage.

Basicly, it's a rectangle that you can put anywhere in your flash movie and have whatever it's over be what you see.

very useful I suppose. But why bother w/ all of this coding and stuff? flash should provide this for us, like boomtoons' software does.

[Phable]

At 7/26/08 05:39 PM, Ansel wrote:

At 7/26/08 05:34 PM, Sound-O-Vision wrote:

anyway, I don't know much about AS3. If tweening everything onstage doesn't lag and the Vcam does, there's probably something tripping up the Cam for some reason. Try using different versions of it. There's a downloadable CS3 extension that lets you create a cam instantly in AS2 or AS3. I'd suggest using that one.

where can I find said extension?

I think this is the one I downloaded.

DUDE. This works perfectly. I was having the same problem on a new high-end computer. I used zero filters, zero bitmaps, and had a small file size. The V-Cam you suggested works perfectly!

[Sam]

At 12/19/12 01:35 PM, Phable wrote: DUDE. This works perfectly. I was having the same problem on a new high-end computer. I used zero filters, zero bitmaps, and had a small file size. The V-Cam you suggested works perfectly!

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