Ok, I have run into a little "fork in the road" so to speak. I was conversing with a friend of myne, and we began discussing the pro's and con's of two popular graphics/animation programs... SwishMAX and MS Flash... I personally have both, SwishMAX and Flash MX 2004...
Personally, I feel SwishMAX is better, becuase it gives you a broader range of effects, etc to do with your animation... However, at the same time, while more difficult to get used to (especially coming from Swish), Flash has its ups and downs as well, allowing a somewhat more professional, smoother look, while allowing the user to customize almost every image and detail...
So, to decide which I should use for my next site (assuming I am going to incorporate some animation into it), I am turning to you guys... For those of you who have used them, which do you prefer and why? Any and all input is greatly appreciated...
To me... SWISH is flash... or rather the ditto to Macromedia's Flash... I don't find the big deal between the two... They are just the same... If I were to choose, I'll prefer Micromedia Flash.. it's original flash creator.. So credits should go to them... That's why I will support them...
isn't there any substantial filesize difference on generated SWFs between swishmax and flashmx (with the same effects and all)? would anyone know the average difference/percentage? i would think that since swishmax comes bundled with ready-made effects, which users would find lazy to configure anyway (sorta like just plug-and-play, no dirty work to do ), it would have bigger SWF outputs. flash, on the other hand, requires more advanced planning but end-results can be freely optimized, hence lower filesize. and btw, does swishmax support actionscripts? pretty useful for most flash animators, i would think.
bottomline, it boils down which one you're most comfortable with. i use swish for small "rush" flash animation projects - like simple buttons, simple menus, etcetera which requires simple effects. when time is of no issue, i'd like to dig in and get dirty with flash.
haha... yea, I appreciate the comments from you two... Serverph, I think you kinda hit the nail on the head... I mean, lets face it, who doesnt wanna just get down and dirty with Flash?!?! ... Anywho, yea, I think I will probably end up doing what you said, and that was use Swish for the smaller rushed projects, and Flash for a little more in depth... Anyways, thanks for the input, I will be sure to put it to as good of use as I can...
And speaking of 'in depth', not sure on Swish, but I know that Flash does have the ability to interact with databases so if you really want to take it to the next level, Flash is probably the one to do it.
I personally like Flash but I'm inept at making animations. I made a camel once in 7th grade or so and that was the end of it. Also because I'm an intense perfectionist and I always end up doing something to the file before I save it...AKA deleting frames.
yea, I hear ya... Swish is definitely easier to pick up upon... however, I would have to agree... once you learn it, Flash does sure open a few more doors for ya... and lol... yea, it sucks being a professionalist...
graphics/animation programs... SwishMAX and MS Flash... I personally have both,
oh dear . . . not MS lol i would have to say Flash is better, but "Swish" is easier to just pick up and use and learn. (i also hate the name swish, its jsut soudns liek a pathetic rip off, of flash. . . i mean FLASH sounds kool . . . but swish. . . thats just kinda lame lol)
its similar to Paintshop pro and photoshop. PSP is easier to jsut pick up and start using if ur a newbie, but u can do so much more in PS
Flash MX is god of all.sish is easy but you cant create as good. as falsh with swish.you can check the possibiltiy of flash at http://bmace.com i like that site so much.you can even try some of the samples on your site.
I would use flash for the more detailed things and the ones that need more perfection (full sites, etc) but i would use swish for the smaller stuff like Serverph said, because sometimes i just dont have the time to get into detail with flash, and it does take time because im not that experienced with it yet.
I have both SwishMAX and Flash on my machine, although I can't really choose which one is better. Both have their pluses and minuses.
SwishMAX is easy to learn with lots of preset effects, allowing the user to create Flash animations quickly. The downside is that there are some effects that Swish cannot do but Flash can.
Flash can do a lot more and can do a lot of professional effects (as demonstrated on many a commercial Flash-based website), but the learning curve is admittedly a bit steep. If the user has time fool around and become comfortable using some of the effects, then Flash is great.
Hi I need some help , Im designing this website for school studies However, I made a flash drop down
menu, works perfectly, but you know how flash has a background when you export it in to a SWF file?
For example my flash is width= 800, and height = 200 but my div box on my html page for my
navigation is only 50 px my buttons is width of 50px and the rest of the content is the drop down
animations i want to insert it into my navigation div box but i want to set the flash background to
transparent so that when the drop down menu comes down it overlaps the text or whateva...
well, i don' t have a site yet, but about 6 months ago i made a template, with flash buttons and
all, with sound and everything i was so proud so i tryed to put em on there with a special code u
needet or something ,so i did, but i got blank images,, i even tryed uploading it on the site it
didn't work, so i asked around they said u can' t install them on a cpanel, u need ftp, so i
downloadet the program needet and i got stuck there, so basicly how do u do that,and could some1
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like this website.. www.mcdonalds.com.au , and choose broadband if you see on that site, when user
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of the flash. Now, the navigation works if I use "wmode = transparent" or "wmode = opaque" in the
flash code. Yet, there is another problem: In Internet Explorer (I'm running version 7) the
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people who have tackled the limitations and the frustrations of coding a nice profile around
MySpace's crappy filters. I also like looking at other people's profiles just to see how
they did them up, what code they used, and even get inspirations for my next profile. I have a
Flash profile. I started doing them about a couple of months after having a regular layout... I
actually learned CSS, Flash, and ActionScript because of MySpace. It actually evolved from u...
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ive started. and i know how to make buttons to go nxt and back and so forth... but i want to know if
anyone knows the actionscript to make a thumbnail .. so that you click on it .and it will load the
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to start. Does anyone know how to do this? I tried googling for a tutorial of some sort, but I
didn't have any luck. Thanks!...
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topic of using relative links in flash movies. I created my entire portfolio website in flash and at
the time I made it, i created all absolute links which turned out to be aweful. I couldn't find
anywhere to to use relative links and every time I tried nothing worked. I finally figured it out
yesterday. In order to get relative links to work you need to have the flash movie file in a
directory beyond all of your other content for the site. In my case my flash .swf fil...
oke i got flash now and i made this button http://www.crazydesign.trap17.com/coolflashthingy.swf
this button i wanne use for my website now my question is, what do i need to put it online do i need
a special code or something,i'm not experienced with this,i heard something about a special code
u need for it,but i dunno wichi'm just used to using tis QUOTE ...
oke well i made my button and i addet the actionscript to give the button an url,see the screenshot
below now for some reason it gives me errors,and i don't know what i did wrong to be
honest,so can some one help me out with this p.s i do use flash cs3 so i dunno maybe its another
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html site and i am wondering if i can import html into a dynamic text box. I am wondering if i will
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please tell. Thanks in advance for the help /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D"
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What do you think about this site? I made it for computer society of india dce branch. There are
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hi, i was wondering if there are any tutorials on how to make flash players like youtube's, is
it easy or hard do you need a lot of skill, i really want to make one, can someone help me please
/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /> thank you
scan /cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="B)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" />...
Before I began creating websites myself, i used templates. The best selection of free ones is here:
TemplatesBox . Tons of free HTML and Flash templates (although you need to pay for the nicer ones),
I'm not affiliated with them I just thought there were alot of threads looking for templates and
this is a great resource....
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Flash, Flash Saver, SWF text but thay most be registred (full versions) If you have send me on
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of images 3. Animation of texts 4. ABle to add music file to it 5. basic shapes (square, circle etc.
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), it would have bigger SWF outputs. flash, on the other hand, requires more advanced planning but end-results can be freely optimized, hence lower filesize. and btw, does swishmax support actionscripts? pretty useful for most flash animators, i would think. 
i use swish for small "rush" flash animation projects - like simple buttons, simple menus, etcetera which requires simple effects. when time is of no issue, i'd like to dig in and get dirty with flash. 
... Anywho, yea, I think I will probably end up doing what you said, and that was use Swish for the smaller rushed projects, and Flash for a little more in depth... Anyways, thanks for the input, I will be sure to put it to as good of use as I can...
