maximum 3d animation file size?

[Bien]

I'm currently producing a 5-10 second 3d animation in swift3dv2 for export into flash but I am not sure what file size I should not go beyond. The site will maily be viewed by businesses so I guess I don't have to care much about those 56k modem people.

What's the maximum size you would advise on? Any suggestions on settings in flash5?

 

[funkymonk]

For a 5-10 second animation I wouldn't have them wait too long so I guess you want it so the loading doesn't take longer than the animation. What is it that your animnating....? If it's just a spinning shape it shoud be quite a small file size anyway but if your going for something a bit more complex then your going to have to take care when you export it from Swift. Best thing to do is publish and test it on the kind of connection your expecting people to view it on, then tweek tweek tweek till you have it right. You can always go back to Swift and export it again with different settings. funkymonk B-)

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[Bien]

Hey funnymonk,

thanks for your thoughts. I'm doing something complex and the computer's been rendering all night long - guess I'll have to fiddle about with the export settings as you mentioned ...

bien

 

[funkymonk]

If your computers been rendering all night then it sounds like a very complex animation. Can you post a link to it when it's up, I'd like to have a look.

Good luck. funkymonk B-)

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[Bien]

Goodness, I don't think you would appreciate that very much. It turned out to be 10.8 MB - for 143 frames! That's even too much to play smoothly off CD. What I've done is: import it into Flash, export it as an avi and then compress it as a mpg. That's reduced it to below 1MB while the quality at 320x240 is just as good als the swf. Now I can also add a watermark with my editing software so it will be useless to steal, unlike with vector graphics which seem to more or less easy to extract out of a swf.

What do you think? Guess I could choose the cartoon export options but they make the animation look like ... er ... a kiddies' cartoon thing.