I took your advice about trying this, and it works great except....
Apparently you can only cache a clip that's less than 2800 x 2800 pixels. Right now, the levels I'm working with are about 5000 x 5000 pixels. Is there any way to get around this limitation? Or do I just need to break up the levels?
Also, Brad, how big is level 5? It seems like it would be larger than 2800 x 2800.
World 1 was broken up, you can see the seams in a lot of it. For World 2, I created a little engine thing that takes the level bounds, divides that up into bitmap tiles, then takes the giant level clips and stamps them onto the tiles using a bunch of matrix transforms.
It's a ton of code and that code is super annoying, but there was no way I was going to be able to break up Adam Phillips's level and stay sane, heh. Annd, no seams in World 2 
I'd recommend just breaking the levels up, though...
So with the big levels, just split those up into chunks manually? Would those chunks be like 1/4 of the level (already tried that, still lags), or about the size of the flash player (550 x 400 is what I'm using now)?
I want to say that my rule of thumb for world 1 was about twice the size of the stage. I think that really, the bigger the better (Flash has less pieces to worry about), but if you make them too big, it won't work. You can make sure that stuff is getting cached by whether or not it's blurry when you're looking at it on the stage (then again, I work with everything inside a shell clip that's super-shrunk, that mightbe why my stuff turns blurry.
Also... Make sure that you don't have anything animating inside the clips, that will cause the game to recache every frame, and that would make it run even worse than before...
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Hmm this looks like a pretty tasty streamlining method.
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Do you also use this on Mr Fancy Pants himself or is his vector art to simple to bother with that?
I want to know this because I am developing a game and the character model will be pretty detailed if i can make it, so I have a few questions
For a multiframed character:is it possible to precache all of his frames and will that make him run faster)
For same character: will having another (not bitmap cached) clip drawn inside the precached clip cause it to recache every frame like with moving stuff
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Fancy Pants Man animates, sooo, the game would freak out if it had to recache him once every single frame, or what would be eleventy billion times worse, save every single one of those few thousand frames of animation as bitmaps.
Makes sense, I am rather new to this language (4months I think) and don't know many tricks.
But since I seem to have gotten you attention here I may as well ask an unnoticed question from another thread I had
I was wondering how you got the running animation so synced up with actual movement speed and If you would share said secret with me?
I would appreciate if you would reply to
http://www.bornegames.com/forum/topic.php?id=362
...(just did retake)..holy crap...Mr Fancy Pants has a few Thousand frames..thats impressiculous!
I have a feeling its either reanimating the running or tweaking the speed variables a lot in order to get it right. That's probably the only secret, although Brad probably has some really in-depth answer he could give you.
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