Thread: XEON - Skin Preview

there are ways of making a full screen flash page look amazing at like 30 fps ive seen websites running full screen tons of stuff going on and hardly any cpu usage i wish i knew the secret to optimizing flash code i need to get some books on it or something

looks amazing so far my cpu is at like 71% tho without music playing just running the file . if i find the answer to optimization ill let you know

Originally Posted by DiNASTY

Wow CdR!! I really like how you can change the colors on the fly like that. Also, the border effects are really nice. One suggestion though, the skin runs fine on my desktop, but on my P4 2.8 laptop, I was getting a constant 100% CPU load. I think It might be the border effects but I'm not positive. Any chance you could make the border effects optional?

Hi fella.. yeah on my xeon machine it works great, on my carputer.. jezz it lags like hell, so I have binned the boarder effects..

now I have two choices.. either to play with playlists, dir lists and flash like you have.. or make a simple vb program that edits the skin files so it changes the colours on the lists to match the colours set in the txt file. Cant decide to be honest.. I have a feeling the VB option is the more simpler, but if I can get the playlists in flash it opens up more options. I have done the change of colours on the audio player and audio list so far.. the others wont take long at all now really..

How you getting on with yours ? looking forward to seeing it :-)

CdR

This skin is tooo hot man.....CDR could you please let me have the swi file?? pretty please...all i need is the one you have so far so that i can see how you have coded the fscommands. Cheers m8t

on (press) {
fscommand("PLAY","BUTTONDOWN");
}
on (release,releaseOutside) {
fscommand("PLAY","BUTTONUP");
}

easy really :-) I will be releasing them with the skin.. just got lots to do on it atm

sweet...how about the labels???? and should you creat a separate box or item for each label???

For Labels.. always make sure you have the label you want to show in flash in your .skin file.. ie..

L,0,0,0,0,,,,,,"TRACKNAME",

then to display it in flash, just stick a text label in and make it dynamic and put the variable name in it to match the label.. ie TRACKNAME

hope this helps

This helps a great deal.....good looking out...one more question..... can playlists and folder lists be controled by the swi/swf like the label and button funtions???? the reason i ask is ...for example if i wanted a flash effect to play before loading the audio browser skin, i would not like for the playlist or directory list to appear before the animation was complete....hope this makes sence.....same question for sliders, etc

CDR i just remembered a great optimization for flash animations
step1
create the animation
step2
make a new movie the same size of the animation
Step3
copy the animation into the new movie
step4
export the animation as a gif
Step 5
make the gif its own movie
step6
in the last frame of the gif call the next function (showing the flash buttons)
step7
(flash buttons are loaded) it plays just like it did before


if flash plays a gif vs redrawing vectors constantly it will take up less cpu

if you were to do this with the movie im sure it would cut down on the cpu usage if you dont know what i mean i can take a look at what uve done and do it for you let me know

cheers for that info.. I want to do something on the main menu page..

I have been busy adding code to enable me to use a flash playlist. .seems to be working well, I have also made it dynamic.. so you can chang ethe colour to be anyting you want just by changing a single line in a file..

ie.
&menucolour=077cce&

I will be writing a VB app which will allow you to change the colour from within the skin and also reload it.. :-)

below is a nearly finished audio skin, just want to add a dynamic menu like i did in MC2.0