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hey,

I made a simple introducation at [ Register or login to view links on this board. ] , it may take a while to load, please be patient. there is also background music, turn your speakers on. Give me feedback!! Feed me!!

Nicely done. The only thing I didn't like was the load time.

anything i can do (other than reduce the .swf file size, which i am working on) to make it better? any suggestions on reducing the .swf file size? you know the title "India Pavilion" falls downward, those are a bunch of pictures, not text. I copied and pasted the pictures, you think it would be better if i go file>import>import to library ??

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I would put a 'skip intro'

Hard to say without seeing the fla, but I would guess that the audio is playing a big part in the size of the swf. Consider streaming the audio. or lowering the bitrate. A swf of that size (4232k) is going to take forever to load on a dialup connection.
Man, you got me wanting a curry now

lol, yea....i think you are right about the music. I downloaded the music from a cd and imported it to flash. How do i stream it? scripting? can i decrease the quality of the music? i decreased the quality of the jpeg from 100 to 80 and i broke my big movie into smaller movies and had them load into my main movie using levels. By doing so.....i reduced the .swf file size from like 4.2mg to like 2.90mg. I think 2.9 is still alot but alot better than 4.2mg.

I would make the music mono and reduce the bitrate as much as possible, check out the audio options when you export to swf. To make the audio stream, change the audio layer properties from event to stream. While this filesize won't alter too much, it will make a huge difference in what has to be preloaded before anything happens.

change the properties from event to stream?

this is the code i got when i click the frame of the layer that has the music in it:

// initiate sound
music = new Sound();
music.attachSound("backsound");
music.start(0, 999999);

// set the volume of the sound to zero
music.setVolume(100);

do i need to change that to make the music stream?
how do i make the music mono and reduce the bitrate? Please, be more descriptive. I am a slow learner.

oh, wow, i am an idiot. I know how to make it stream, make it mono and reduce the birate. Thank you very much red

i'll give it a try soon.