SWF woes In my themes

[jiytee]

Hi guys,

 

I wonder if someone could give me a few pointers on flash inclusion in themes please?

 

I've tried various programs and formats but I can't seem to find a happy medium between programs and rendering of files....

 

I've tried setting at 120 fps, but notice that not all existing files in various themes do not run at that (24)

I've tried compression/no compression

Actionscript 3?

 

https://youtu.be/WgFGYuPpvqE

 

Any advice for a beginner please?

 

Many, many thanks.

 

(apologies if I've missed a thread/tut on this by the way, I did look!)

 

A copy of the swf enclosed.

 

 

[dark13]

The only software that output .swf usable in HS is adobe flash professional using actionscript3.

[wesfranks]

I had trouble with Flash also. Interested in responses to this. Everything Adobe is usually intuitive, but I tended to get inconsistent results mainly with the speed of the layout vs published results. The math just didn't add up.

 

jiytee, was speed of rotation what you were referring to with the link? Because good effect.

[dark13]

Flash HAS framerate inconsistency problems, on HS things get worse as HS don't consider framerate, it simply reads the .swf as fast as the cpu can. Basically the speed of the animation will depend by the power of the cpu. Once I tried to use a timer in AS3 to get a costant framerate in HS, do you want to know a funny thing? Cpu power was still affecting the playback speed as different cpu took different time to read and execute the code. Not to mention the fact the timer thing was more cpu intensive...

[jiytee]

Hmmm, seems like this is gonna be a harder task than I first thought then....

I used Adobe for the spinning ring effect in the main theme (it could have been better but I was treating it as a Beta test release)

The timings and result were not as expected (as users have pointed out above)

https://youtu.be/eOrBSu2Z5Xw

It's going to take much longer to produce the sexy results using just Adobe which is a great pity.  A set with a number of dedicated themes will make the project simply too long to produce in terms of time and effort, which is why I'm guessing many people just don't utilise SWF much.

 

I've designed quite a few for PC game anthologies over the last 2 months - feel free to comment/take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC91-UELVMKW_4_Bbz7HNM_g

 

Back to the drawing board with Flash for me then.....

Many, many thanks for the quick and concise replies thus far by the way.

[jiytee]

Any thoughts on possible conversions of the SWF uncompressed file (created outwith Adobe) and imported into Adobe or , as I suspect, is that just a no-no due to obvious conversion issues?

[Krakerman]

The only software that output .swf usable in HS is adobe flash professional using actionscript3.

I have found and use SoThink's SWF Quicker as it will output to swf of course and actionscript3 and works with HyperSpin as well. It is what I currently use for creating swf's for HyperSpin plus much much cheaper than Adobe's.

Inside SWF Quicker set the following:

Width = 1024

Height = 768

Under Tools/Options:

Default SWF Version = Flash Player 10

Publish Settings:

ActionScript Version = ActionScript 3.0

*By default it is set to ActionScript2.0 each time. so you need to change that to 3.0

This will output to work with HyperSpin. They have a demo on there site to try it out before you buy to see if it is what your looking for.

The one thing missing that I don't see an option for the smooth feature like flash pro has.