Re: [Flashcoders] Huge block of scrolling text: Choppy animation.

2006-09-15 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi Vibol, thanks for your response, it is greatly appreciated. :) Vibol Hou wrote: Are you using a pixel font? I a similar issue with a large block of pixel fonts and motion+shape tweening. The only solution I found was to anti-alias the pixel font for the large block of text. Thanks for shar

Re: [Flashcoders] Huge block of scrolling text: Choppy animation.

2006-09-15 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi Chris, thanks for the response, I really appreciate your time. Chris Hill wrote: ...[snip]... This will convert the text to one big bitmap, and use fast pixel copying to display just the rect you want. Peace Right on! Thanks for snippet! I really appreciate it, very cool! :D Looks like

[solved] Re: [Flashcoders] Huge block of scrolling text: Choppy animation.

2006-09-15 Thread Micky Hulse
Kurt Dommermuth wrote: You could turn it into a bitmap mc.cacheAsBitmap = true; That should help. Woot! That worked great! Thanks Kurt, you da man! :D Cheers, Micky -- Wishlist: Switch: BCC?: My:

Re: [Flashcoders] Huge block of scrolling text: Choppy animation.

2006-09-15 Thread Chris Hill
The fastest way to animate this is to use runtime bitmap caching, mixed with the scrollRect property. // this is almost pseudo-code, untested, but you should get the idea r = new Rectangle(0,0,width,height); container.cacheAsBitmap = true; container.scrollRect = r; container.onEnterFrame = fun

Re: [Flashcoders] Huge block of scrolling text: Choppy animation.

2006-09-15 Thread Vibol Hou
Are you using a pixel font? I a similar issue with a large block of pixel fonts and motion+shape tweening. The only solution I found was to anti-alias the pixel font for the large block of text. -V Micky Hulse wrote: Hi, I am working on a simple Flash project... at end of the animation I hav

Re: [Flashcoders] Huge block of scrolling text: Choppy animation.

2006-09-15 Thread Kurt Dommermuth
You could turn it into a bitmap mc.cacheAsBitmap = true; That should help. At 01:50 PM 9/15/2006, you wrote: Hi, I am working on a simple Flash project... at end of the animation I have a text block of 80 names, kinda like movie credits, that scroll from bottom of screen to top of scree

[Flashcoders] Huge block of scrolling text: Choppy animation.

2006-09-15 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi, I am working on a simple Flash project... at end of the animation I have a text block of 80 names, kinda like movie credits, that scroll from bottom of screen to top of screen... it looks like crap using motion tween. Very choppy movement, not smooth at all. Any fixes? I am assuming tha