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Ben Vaughan & all: I am interested in making a Shockwave Flash version of ldraw.org to give it a little spice. Ben, you use shockwave on your marsbase site, and I am confused on how to create things in shockwave. I have visited Macromedia's website (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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you need to buy macromedia director, i think. (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tim Courtney wrote in message <199904102225.SAA274...et.com>... (...) I believe I have a cd with a list of shockwave files for web sites. (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tim, All you need is Macromedia's Flash. They do offer a demo for download that has a 30 day limitation. The actual program costs something like $250.00 (US) I think. I'm going on memory here. As for how it works, think of a timeline. Everything (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Realized I didn't give an address for downloading it. Check out: (URL) need to fill out a form, but that's the spot to download. Ben -- Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com www.marsbase.com ---...--- The few, the proud,...the plastic. Ben Vaughan (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Dunno how Tim is set for getting academic prices on software, but I did note the other day that all of the current Macromedia web-oriented products (Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver) are $99 at our campus computer store. (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wheaton College which is literally down the street from me offers student discounts on software. I grabbed Photoshop 4 for $230 several years back and a former employer bought me the upgrade to 5. Thanks for the suggestion, I will download it (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tim, Please, please, please, please, please, please, please do *NOT* rely on Shockwave plugins to access content on the new site. IMO, this is far worse than image maps, because, in essence, it is forcing people to stick to one piece of buggy (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) My suggestion: worry about content and delivery before worrying about spice. LDraw.org should be approachable: easy to access, easy to understand, work on the maximum number of browsers. Using Shockwave to deliver content might improve some (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I guess I didn't fully state my intentions. I will create both a non-shockwave and shockwave versions, for the enjoyment of those who like a cool little animated site. I didn't intend on placing Shockwave as a priority over the non-shockwave (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Correct. I was just inquiring about it - not stating that I was going to make that a priority. (...) You are also correct here. I don't fully realize how it complicates it, and maybe that is in part the reason for my enthusiasm about it. I (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ditto. As cool as Flash and Shockwave can be, they should always be optional, with no real loss of content to those not choosing to use them. I love Flash, don't get me wrong. But I do recognize it as mostly fluff when it comes to actually (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yep. (...) Dang!! I probably couldn't bear to look at a site without its images, and I only connect at 31kbps! (pathetic performance for a 56k modem, but it comes with the territory of a crappy phone line within my house which needs to be (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Nah, images are, for the most part, irrelevant fluff. I'd say 95% of the websites I read for information only, not graphics or anything else. (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) but (...) You're lucky compared to me... I have a 28.8 which never hits more than about 4 Kbps because of the phonelines and other computers everything has to run through. That's probably why I'm so concerned about making the images on my web (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Which brings up another issue. Does anyone have one of those gif compressors that take several k out of each file so nicely and conveniently? If so, when the ldraw.org images are done, could you run them through it? Or is there a freeware one (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Since we've mentioned other Macromedia products, I've used Fireworks for this. It has a cool preview feature that lets you tweak out an image, deciding on quality vs size and it even gives you an estimate of the download time at 28.8. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Usually I just use PNG instead of GIF which cuts roughly 20% of the file size (on average). If you want to improve the GIF compression of images you have to reduce the colour depth of the images. I use pnmdepth (from the netpbm/pbmplus (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I do have the capability of using PNG, but I am wary about browser support for them. I do remember when you brought up the topic two years ago on the Minifig World Tour that there was little browser support for it. Does IE5 and Netscape 4.7 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tim Courtney (tcourtney@avenew.com) wrote: [...] (...) Netscape 4.* and MSIE5 supports PNG, but I am afraid it's only non-transparent images it handles correctly. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmmm.. Well, it does sound like an attractive option for file size, but IMO its too early since a lot of people still run 3.0 browsers. And IE5 hasn't been out that long. I just got it a couple weeks ago. If most IE users won't be able to see (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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