test my website

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    am testing my website.but don't know how make the earth in the left hand side rotating like a flash animation.do you have any ideas?
    website test address:http://xyh.nhome.cn/cim/
     
    myjobsg, Oct 27, 2007 IP
  2. nix

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    heya.... replace the globe in flash with a circular mask and make a tween for a flat map to go right to left.... making it seem as if its spinning
     
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    Xavier_3D Well-Known Member

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    Or alternatively, you can take different portions of the world map, put the pictures sequencly in each Keyframe and Create a Motion Tween.
     
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    Thanks your idea.

    but it seems not nature with your method.I want to get the effect like Google earth rotating.Also i want to the change the flash format into Gif format.I am not sure whether there is any initial flash codes about it in Internet,because i am not good at Flash ,especially at aesthetics.
     
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    there isnt a code for that... if you want an actual 3d globe moving like google earth you'd either need to render it in a 3d software and export the animation in gif OR you could get around 20-50pics of the globe in different positions and tween it as xavier 3d said....
     
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    how heavy in kb should it be?
     
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    yes ,around 20-50pics of the globe are too heavy for a website.
    the following is the flash rotating earth just 19K only.

    Test address:http://xyh.nhome.cn/cim/flash/3D-rotatearth.swf
     
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    hmm nice one... ask your designer to have it match your site background and your set :)
     
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    Man, that's agonizing to watch load - and I'm on broadband.

    Honestly, my advice is DON'T.

    I'd axe ALL of the flash so it loads in a decent amount of time... and re-encode most of the images.

    That image up top is easily three times the filesize it should be - which is odd because it LOOKS like it's got some hardcore artifacting despite having little or no actual encoding on it. (what is that, 2% or so?) Same for the handshake and... well, I guess all the images.

    I'd suggest adding some padding to... well, all the elements as having the text running up against the borders makes reading it difficult.

    Bottom line though - the animations are 'cute', but also distracting, a waste of bandwidth, and as with most uses of flash on a website for anything other than a video or game the user clicks to start themselves - a really BAD idea.
     
    deathshadow, Oct 29, 2007 IP