Fading images in and out

[Tiansen]

Hello!

I have a simple Flash animation - fading in and out different images. I have done it with an Actionscript (changing alpha value). That worked ok only on new processors - on all others it eats 100% CPU. I then tried to do it with timeline (motion tween between 2 alpha values of picture). Now it is considerably better, but on CPUs lower than 2 GHz it still eats 100% CPU. Size of animation is 940x160. How can I do this fading correctly so that CPU will not have to do so much calculations?? Please help me!

 

[marias0]

Using an older version of action script may help it to display on older processors. You can also use multiple layers and overlap them such that the first one is fading out and the next one is fading in to create the same effect.

Maria Santella
Technical Sales Engineer
ICP DAS USA

http://www.icpdas-usa.com

 

[Tiansen]

You can find animations here (made with Flash CS3):

http://www.process.si/banner-slo-timeline2.fla

(sample animation with timeline)

http://www.process.si/banner-slo.fla

(whole animation with Actionscript)

Timeline version is a little better, but still consumes way too much CPU.

Any help very much appreciated.