preloader for each scene ???

[DainBramaged]

I would recommend you preload (if necessary) just the main site shell and navigation. Instead of scenes, I would recommend using the loadMovie command and make each section a separate swf that is called only when the user clicks the button for that section. You can preload them individually and the user never has to load content they never wanted to see in the first place.

Just one opinion.

Cheers,
Dain

[uberslayer™]

But if your overall file size is not too big loading the whole lot up can make things flow nicely. Sometimes I kinda feel ripped off when I wait through a preloader just to be presented with another one on the next button I press.

[DainBramaged]

I agree. Personally, I don't think that the shell/navigation section should be large enough to warrant a preloader, or if they do, it should be really small. The preloader after preloader thing is a real drag. I wonder sometimes after waiting through a long preloader why when I click a button I have to wait for another...If I click on a movie or something I would expect it, but just for simple section menus....I wonder where all the weight is coming from.

I guess the bottom line is, make sure the viewer feels they got plenty of bang for their buck.

Dain

[sebek27]

ok i'm confused... how big should the site be ? i'm aiming for a site that will be under 500k(whole site) and ONLY for Broadband but I really want to use scenes so I can more easily edit my site... So, do I
1. have to have each scene as a separate SWF with loadmovie ?
2. even if it has scenes anyway one main preloader will load the whole site ?
3. or create a preloader for each scene instead of loading swf's ??
thanks in advance

[DainBramaged]

1. That's up to you. :D
2. Yes. One preloader will load the whole movie, all the scenes.
3. I don't even know if that can be done. Flash can either check for the amount of data loaded or check the number of frames loaded....so you'd be able to load the first scene, but after the 1st scene is loaded, it's going to keep downloading the movie IN ORDER, so let's say scene 1 (with all the navigation is loaded), and the user clicks a section button, which would be scene 4, for example....well, you can't change flash's load order of an individual movie on the fly.

So basically the choice is between one movie, one preloader or separate movies, separate preloaders. If you're shooting for under 500k total, and you broke it into sections loaded separately, you might easily open your site to all bandwidths. If you kept it as one movie, you could just leave everything as-is and get on with life.

What kind of site is it, anyway? What's your target audience?

Dain

[sebek27]

Dain:
here is my old html and flash site, i'm redoing mine and will add more 3d elements:

http://www.webstormdigital.com/

here is how my new buttons will look and move when you hover over them:

http://www.webstormdigital.com/test.htm

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