Arcade Style

[jamesmc]

I'll try this again since most of work was done in Xara. Posted in Graphics Gallery last nite and it disappeared.
Anyway everything made in Xara Xtreme and animated in Swishmax.
http://mccluer.name/tgman.swf


embedding not working for me.

[Soquili]

James I edited your flash tags so the animation would show. You had an extra slash '/' character that terminated the instruction too soon.

[jamesmc]

Thanks Bill! Guess posting when I'm tired is not a good idea.

[Intbel]

Any particular reason for switching to S'Max for the animating of?
Just wonderin' ...

[a4hire]

Swish , has a lot of animation wizards , or presets built into it, and it allows you to do many things like adding links , rollovers, sounds, java script etc, it is much more like an easy version of Flash. If only xara would incorporate more of these features, now all animation in Xara still needs to be done frame by frame and that is about all we can do with it.

[jamesmc]

Any particular reason for switching to S'Max for the animating of?
Just wonderin' ...

Primarily because of size. That and I don't own XXP.

As you know GIF puts out huge file sizes the large the dimensions are.

Also, Swishmax has canned effects that I can pop in without manipulate each and every frame.

Also, Swishmax has a timeline which makes it very easy to change something or add something.

Lastly, since Flash is vector based rather than bitmap, I can do more things with less distortion and smaller file size.