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Friday April 12th 2002 05:47 PM PST

WHAT THE FUCK. I always have thought that Director is a much MUCH better product than Flash. But now more than ever I find I HAVE to use Flash. So, today I'm working on a little clip for a website. It's just a stupid Tic Tac Toe game to play while the next section is loading. I build the thing and it's 30k. WHAT? That's way too big. So i go look at a early version (with the same art) and it's only 17k. Ok, now I'm confused. So I ask the Flash GURU here, and his response is "delete the extra empty frames". You've gotta be kidding me. So i humor him, and sure enough. Boom. Back down to 17k. So let me just make this perfectly clear for all the morons out there. Even if all the items in your library are compressed to hell and you make sure to reuse artwork, IT DOESN'T MATTER. Cause if you're like me and you put "spacer frames" THAT HAVE NOTHING IN THEM, IT BLOWS THE FILE SIZE. And all this bitching is really cause 10 extra frames ADDED 13k!!!!! (riggs now steps down from the soapbox)