LiveMotion 2.0
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Bluefusion
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It's GREAT. I used LiveMotion 1.0 extensively, and I'm not quite sure of what all is new in LiveMotion 2 but from what I could see, it's lookin' good. The move to OS X appears pretty seamless, although previewing animations inside of LiveMotion is a bit slower than 1.0 ... ie. it's not realtime, no matter what, on an iMac G4 with 256 MB of RAM in OS X. However, you can pretty easily use the Preview In... command to switch it to IE, where it runs at normal speed. Other than that little speed problem, it seems great.
Bluefusion
Into the Breach
That I don't know, sorry...
bighairydog
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Yup.
2 or 3 minor differences, but otherwise identical.
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2 or 3 minor differences, but otherwise identical.
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bighairydog
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Almost identical. Just a slightly different Document Object Model to HTML. LM 2 supports JavaScript too.
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bighairydog
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That was javascript when you were exporting to sliced images in auto-generated HTML pages, and it let you write rollover behaviours and event handlers. LM 2's Javascript can be used to controll the Flash swf environment too.
It's really very good.
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It's really very good.
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bighairydog
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That was just really simple commands like start and stop on buton-presses. Useless for the purpose of developing complex interactive sites. I've made games like minesweeper, pong and noughts&crosses in Livemotion 2, and theres no way that would have been possible in version 1
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bighairydog
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Yeah, that's the deal I got. Oh so very very nice to be a student...
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bighairydog
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In LM1... when ther was a lot of animation... it would do a crappy job exporting to flash, and even the flash file would have laggy animation. I know flash can handle a lot. Did anyone else have this problem? if you did... does LM2 fix that prob? that would be the main reason for me to upgrade.
bighairydog
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LiveMotion makes it very easy to make an object that will be exported as a bitmap object. I never found vector graphics slow in LM1 exports, unless I accidentally added an effect to a vector object, changing it to a bitmap. Do you think that might be the problem?
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bighairydog
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I can imagine:
Wouldn't put it past them...
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Code:
/**
* Code Block copyright Microsoft Corporation
* Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac OSX
**/
if (system.appsRunning.manufacturer != 'Microsoft') {
system.runSlowley();
system.crashFrequency += 50;
}
include(secret_functions.h)
sendToBigBrother(getUserCreditCardRecords());
// endWouldn't put it past them...
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