Export a size report for the flash, then look it over and take out the frames / objects that look too big. There's my two cents.
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Do the thing what that guy said about anchor points.
RWD is gay
are you optimizing curves? That makes a huge difference in both filesize and lag. Also, make sure you "save and compact" every once in a while instead of just saving.
Try messing with the sound settings. Here's a good one (keeps good quality + not a big file size):
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If you can't see the image then the settings are:
MP3, 32 kbps, Mono
If you don't know where to change it go to File->Publish Settings->Flash tab, make sure "Override sound settings" is checked.
Please don't split it in two parts, just load it up. 3.62mb is fine.
xx Martin xx
you're silly.
3.6MB is only 3 scenes out of many.
Yotam, I think your problem is that your drawings have too many curves for Flash to calculate. For example, I quickly sketched something last night and I checked how many curves it contained. It had a whopping 1256 curves! When I published just the sketch the swf file totaled up to be 4.54kb! That's insane for just a single frame!
Solution: You need to optimize your curves in all of your drawings, cutting down the number of curves in them. Doing this is simple. Go through each frame and select each of your drawings. When they are highlighted press <SHIFT>+<ALT>+<CTRL>+C. Pressing that command will bring up the optimizing curves tab.
There you will see a bar that will allow you to control how a smooth you want your drawings to be. More smooth = less curves. But if you smooth it out too much your drawing may turn ugly. It up to you on how much you want to smooth things out.
I ran a quick test on how effective this is. With the same sketch I mentioned earlier, I moved the smooth bar to about halfway. It turned my 1256 curves into 597. I looked at my file size of my swf, and it was reduced to 2.74kb! That's a 52% reduction in my entire file size!
If you optimize the curves in all of your drawings in every keyframe, I'm certain you will have a similar result.
you can actually select all the frames instead doing it 1 by 1...
i've tried that in the past... ill try again
Oh, and I forgot to credit Mr. Swain for showing me the <SHIFT>+<CTRL>+<ALT>+C command in the first place.
If you use the pencil tool and 0% smoothing, it will be way bigger than when using like, 50% smoothing.
hummmzz.. I wont pretend to know anything about the technical side of flash, but I am interested in who this new guy is. I guess I'll WAIT AND SEE. :OOO
try changing the quality of the sounds when they stream? 56 ussually sounds perfect even though it is less than half, and sound files are reduced by a large amount that way.
Try the following:
1) Go into your publish settings and make sure that all audio is set to MP3 format at around 32 to 48 kbps.
2) If you repeat any graphics, try saving one of them to the library and copy/pasting it whenever you need to. Flash will call each graphic it deems as 'new,' and this includes unsaved duplicates.
Just to clarify number 2, let's say you draw a person in one keyframe that extends for ten frames. Then say he does something like raise his arm, then goes back to the original pose. This would count the graphic twice if it weren't saved to the library.
Probably a sound problem. That's usually it. If not, maybe too many symbols.
have you tried optimizing your drawings?
nothing there sounds too out of the ordinary. using symbols can dramatically lower your movie size over frame by frame. if you do reuse the same art twice - always make it a symbol.
also optimizing your line art with the link optimization tools also helps.
...and if you have any jpgs or pngs, etc, in your movie that will also raise the file size over vector art.
im probably repeating what everybody else is saying but those are all the culprits.
Lulz at flash problem, maybe lose some weight? :D
And I couldn't really care about the RWD...
i dont no everything i make are quite high too but i end up deleting them anyway because its only practice
and cool a new member again
what do you need to be a RWD member?
I get the same problem, it's because you draw with the brush tool which creates complex filled vector shapes. The movies with the really small file sizes are drawn with the pencil tool, which creates simple stroked paths, thus taking up less memory.
*this has been a snippit of boogley advise. Tune in next week for... something else.*
If you really want to see the filesize w/out the sounds you can't just delete the sounds, it just doesn't work that way. You have to delete the sounds, then transfer (via copy/paste) all the frames and symbols over to a blank .fla, then save that as a different name and maybe a different directory just to be sure. That should give you a better idea.
But if you want to get the size down, the best way is to just change your publish settings so that your sound quality on your streams is really low. The Waterman cartoons use really low sound quality.
Another way to get a file smaller is to keep your library as small as possible. Don't just tween vectors and then have the 'Tween 1' symbols in your library, convert the object you want into a symbol and reuse it as many times as possible. The smaller the library, the better.
And if you really want to shave it down you can try smoothing the corners of the vectors in the symbols that you use a lot. If you can take off a good amount of corners on something that's used a lot, you might save a tiny bit of filesize.
And if you REALLY want to get it small you can use graphics instead of movieclips and movieclips instead of buttons. That might save you a tiny bit of space but nothing to brag about.
But those last two ways are more for websites. Like if you have a Flash banner at the top of your site, you want that banner to be as small as possible, because it's going to be downloaded so many times. Like if you even get 1k impressions a day which isn't much, having the file a couple kilobytes smaller would save you a ton of bandwidth over the long run.
Increase the smoothing of your pencil/pen tool
TJ111111
cant help you just wanted to reply