http://blog.touchmypixel.com/2009/12/net-magazine-caching-animation-in-flashas3/ Games + Web : Interaction Matters Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:09:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.touchmypixel.com/2009/12/net-magazine-caching-animation-in-flashas3/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Touch My Pixel Blog » Blog Archive » Scarygirl – awards Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:31:07 +0000 http://blog.touchmypixel.com/?p=221#comment-364 [...] game ever” – thanks! We also wrote a tutorial for the magazine explaining how to use bitmap caching to speed up animations. The same month Scarygirl was also featured in the Australian Desktop [...] [...] game ever” – thanks! We also wrote a tutorial for the magazine explaining how to use bitmap caching to speed up animations. The same month Scarygirl was also featured in the Australian Desktop [...]

]]> http://blog.touchmypixel.com/2009/12/net-magazine-caching-animation-in-flashas3/comment-page-1/#comment-349 tarwin Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:39:30 +0000 http://blog.touchmypixel.com/?p=221#comment-349 Yeah, that would be a lot safer. I think it's more how we used it generally, which was to just have a large array of strings (of the identifiers) set up for each level, then AFTER we load in the SWF asset file we'd then do the caching. If you're going to use it in a system that is more tightly integrated it would probably be best to just throw it MovieClips I agree. I guess we should at least add in a try/catch. Will update after Christmas! Yeah, that would be a lot safer. I think it’s more how we used it generally, which was to just have a large array of strings (of the identifiers) set up for each level, then AFTER we load in the SWF asset file we’d then do the caching. If you’re going to use it in a system that is more tightly integrated it would probably be best to just throw it MovieClips I agree. I guess we should at least add in a try/catch. Will update after Christmas!

]]> http://blog.touchmypixel.com/2009/12/net-magazine-caching-animation-in-flashas3/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Zach Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:20:54 +0000 http://blog.touchmypixel.com/?p=221#comment-348 Nice work, tony. I use a similar class for my animations in Away3D. One question about your implementation: You pass a string to the function and then look up the symbol. However, if you pass a string that does not have a symbol, and more specifically does not resolve to a movieclip, it will throw an error. (when it attempts gotoAndStop on a non movieclip object) So the question: why not make the function accept a movieclip? Its the only display object class that supports multiple frames. Is there an advantage to the approach I don't see? Nice work, tony. I use a similar class for my animations in Away3D.
One question about your implementation:
You pass a string to the function and then look up the symbol. However, if you pass a string that does not have a symbol, and more specifically does not resolve to a movieclip, it will throw an error. (when it attempts gotoAndStop on a non movieclip object)
So the question: why not make the function accept a movieclip? Its the only display object class that supports multiple frames. Is there an advantage to the approach I don’t see?

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