Flash Question

[dirt29]

Hey everyone,

I am in need of a little guidiance regarding a Flash web site I am helping develop. Currently, the site works fine and is about 1.5mB in size. I have included a pre-loader to the front-page, and over a broadband connection it loads pretty quick(maybe 5 secs, at most). The issue is the client wants to add some animations into some pages on the site. When I did this, it added another 4+ megs to the size, thus bringing the overall load time up alot(probably closer to 30 secs) and for a web site it's unacceptable and thats not even considering people who are on dial-up.

If it were up to me, I'd say forget it and drop them, but it's not my call. Does anyone have any ideas on how to add the animations with out increasing the load time significantly? I thought about maybe placing the animations in clips and doing external loads? I've never done that, so if thats an option could someone lay out how you would do it?

Thanks in advance.

[wh666-666]

If your importing image frames in to use for animation make it the smallest size you can without comprimising on quality too much. Depends what your using to create the flash animations as well as this can have an effect on the overall size. Also if all of your content is loading at first consider splitting it up. (dont know if you have it all loading as one big SWF or and index SWF with seperate SWF pages off it for each link?) There is a program called pix compressor that makes image file size small without stripping too much quality but as for flash, try other things apart from macromedia, as different suites making a similar SWF vary in output size.

[raviganesh91221]

For loading an external swf in your flash movie. You must have an empty movie clip placed in your stage at the top left corner (if the movie u want to load is of the same size). If you are loading a different size of a movie then adjust the empty movie clip as per your swf's size. Then use the loadMovie(moviename,target); to load ur movie. This can be given in the frame as well as to a button. The moviename should be replaced by the name of ur swf file and the target is the instance name of the empty movieclip. For more detailed reference go to www.actionscript.org.