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> as it's drawn with vector graphics (I guess?) Yeah, Flash was fundamentally a vector format for much of its life. It started adding bitmaps after a while, I
by egypturnash 6y ago
> as it's drawn with vector graphics (I guess?)
Yeah, Flash was fundamentally a vector format for much of its life. It started adding bitmaps after a while, I wanna say in the Flash 5 era? It's been a long time and I've deliberately put a lot of my time with Flash in the mental vault, as it was also mostly time working under John K.
Anyway. I spent a lot of time hand-optimizing autotraces of scans of ink drawings, and even more time moving them around in sync to dialogue. Flash was very much about sending compact vector representations over your 28.8kbaud modem connection and moving them around instead of sending anything like what we would call a video stream, until they added the FLV format and YouTube happened.
- acqq 6y agoThanks. I knew about Flash in general, I just haven't checked yes if the 600 KB swf looked good full screen -- yes it does, with real Flash player. With Ruffle, the lines are thicker. I still don't know, how are we going to be able to watch the old content with the native Flash player, at least on our desktops? Depending on the new emulations can result in missing or differently presented content (like these thicker lines?).
- egypturnash 6y agoI think Adobe Animate still comes with Windows and OSX executables for the Flash Projector. Drop a local copy of the SWF on there and enjoy.