Wuddup NG? Still hard at work on this next project, though I'm at a little bit of a crossroad about what I'm going to do with the animation. It's only at 2 minutes right now, which is just basically scratching the surface considering the first animatic is 8 minutes long, then I added two more scenes that'll probably round it out at about 11 minutes.
I've heard various rumors about the limits of Flash, which is what I'm worried about. I've heard that there's a frame limit, yet still there's these half-hour long flashes like the Metal Gear Collab that run at high frame rates and shit. I'm assuming I won't find out until I'm actually done what way I'm going to go about releasing this. I'd rather not have to have Necropolis Xenophobe part a & b, so I considered breaking it up into 4-minutes parts and making each one an episode and starting a new series from scratch.
What got me worried was what happened whit Broken Glazz before I released it. I had a lot more animations I wanted to squeeze in, but not only did Flash die every time I added things after a certain point, it became impossible to export, so I had to cut back and stretch some scenes out. I'm not sure if it's due to the fact that I'm animating on the main timeline or what, but I've tried going as far as I can with previous animations just to test the limits and Flash would give me bullshit every time. Everybody says the problem can be solved by animating everything in one huge Movie Clip symbol, I might just give it a try.
... I'd REALLY rather not have to make "Episodes" with numbers on them. Anyway, I'm going to continue animating regardless, just trying to anticipate technical issues now so I don't have to worry about them later. If anybody knows anything about the limits of what you can do with one SWF at 24fps, don't be afraid to speak up. Peace.
S-K
Not that I'm hardcore enough yet to have reached the limits of flash, but I think they're talking about each timeline being limited to a certain number of frames, but the easy workaround for that is dividing your movie into a bunch of 'scene' movieclips. Not to be confused with flashs scenes feature however, because last time I checked code that made your movie go to a specific frame on a certain scene doesn't work even though it should x.x