so i want to make a very cool looking cartoon, its very heavy on visuals.............. but it lags on the main timeline. i only have what is shown on the picture and all the animation i have done so far is just "Black" opening his eyes and doing that expression. im not even 6 second into the animation and its already lagging. i actually see the frames per second indicator go down to even 2.8 FPS. what the heck is going on!? did i over saturate the file already!? i have only used 3 movie clips and this is what i get........... can anyone help with this issue? i post it here on the front page in hopes i get some experienced animator's help. the forums are flooded with "i have a story and i want an animator to do it for free" kind of posts >.>
MOA-OZZY
n_n well I am an exprienced animator and now that I've started anime i run into this problem alot in flash.
Firstly, the way you drew the grass in the backgrounds is prone to lag. This is because when 2 different colours overlap each other in a big image (e.g. the dark green and light green for the grass effect) It really lags flash videos down.
Solution:
The first and easiest solution is to make the screen resolution for you're flash video smaller.... but i don't do that because the video will be very small to run at full speed.
The second and best solution to fix this problem is to find the movie clip that slows flash down (in this case the grass). Go into the movie clip. then go to file. Export. Export image. (in save as type box) go to PNG. Name the image. click save. then in the option menu that comes up. (In the include box) click minimum image area. (in colour box) 24 bit with alpha channel. (In filter box) click none. Then check the three other boxes (which should be interlaced, smooth and dither solid colours). export it. Then go back to your flash file and import the image you've just exported into your flash and use that image instead. You can turn it into a movie clip and manipulate it how ever you want. The lag will usually be gone or just much! less lag.
This method lower's the quality of the image exported slightly though (depending on what you export).
If you have any questions just ask ^^.
And no I'm not a professional, I've just used flash 8 for waaaayy to long lol ^^ hope this helped
guitan11
holy crap! that fixed it beautifully! now i have another problem in the following parts i have the same thing happening in a part where i have double tweens at the same time. should i do the same for all those movieclips? or is there another way? PM me bro! :D