circles rendered as diamonds?

[sculptex]

On attempting to create a moving halftone like pattern, I have created a large number of different sized circles viewed through a clipview. however, the resultant flash animation renders the circles as diamond shapes? is it the sheer volume of circles xara or flash cannot cope with?

[salaam]

Yes, you have far too many shapes.
You are only using 2 colours so you can simply reduce them to just 2 shapes instead of thousands.

[sculptex]

Hi Salaam,

Thanks for the suggestions. I assume you meant to combine > add the shapes together to make two complex shapes rather than hundreds of simple shapes. that did not seem to make much difference. anyway, I got (roughly) the effect I wanted. I just reduced the number of circles as you suggested.

So I deduce there must be some sort of limit set by xx or flash with the number of objects. Strange thing is that a circle is about the simplest thing you can define? (x,y,r) so I would have thought other shapes would be rendered as circles not the other way around!

[gwpriester]

Nice effect.

[sculptex]

thanks Gary,

I am really warming to the flash capabilities in XXP.

[mindseye]

The flash capabilities of Xara is simply fantastic! nice job job/effect by the way. very psychedelic man!