Comments on: Research Now http://www.flashmonkey.co.uk/research-now/ Stephen Burgess - Interactive Developer Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:23:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: tavis http://www.flashmonkey.co.uk/research-now/#comment-297 tavis Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:25:34 +0000 http://www.flashmonkey.co.uk/?p=186#comment-297 Danke schon ;) Tell you what, I've been doing my freaking nut the last day or two... I've got a pretty good custom rendering engine written, nothing fancy, but quick - got a decent game loop structure, everything's awesome in firefox and standalone flash player - but IE kills it! Grrr.... I even reimplemented the demo in pulpcore (http://www.interactivepulp.com/pulpcore/) to make sure I wasn't going crazy (I wasn't, it's IE :( ) Do you ever have particularly noticeable slowdown in your flash stuff in IE? I think my problem is I'm expecting uber smooth scrolling, and IE caps the movie framerate at ~60 fps - and since my loop is timer based, this affects how often the timerevents are dispatched. Argh... Anyway, demos: -> flactionscript: http://tinyrobot.co.uk/experiments/tiledscroller -> pulpcore: http://tinyrobot.co.uk/experiments/pulptiledscroller Going to turn it into a simple tank vs. tank game tomo (today? it's 4:30 am! oops) and implement in both... I'm not sure what to do now, it's bad form to exclude IE users but they'd have a better experience with pulpcore... but then they'd have to get java if they don't already have it... dilemmas! Danke schon ;)

Tell you what, I’ve been doing my freaking nut the last day or two… I’ve got a pretty good custom rendering engine written, nothing fancy, but quick - got a decent game loop structure, everything’s awesome in firefox and standalone flash player - but IE kills it! Grrr…. I even reimplemented the demo in pulpcore (http://www.interactivepulp.com/pulpcore/) to make sure I wasn’t going crazy (I wasn’t, it’s IE :( ) Do you ever have particularly noticeable slowdown in your flash stuff in IE? I think my problem is I’m expecting uber smooth scrolling, and IE caps the movie framerate at ~60 fps - and since my loop is timer based, this affects how often the timerevents are dispatched. Argh… Anyway, demos:

-> flactionscript: http://tinyrobot.co.uk/experiments/tiledscroller
-> pulpcore: http://tinyrobot.co.uk/experiments/pulptiledscroller

Going to turn it into a simple tank vs. tank game tomo (today? it’s 4:30 am! oops) and implement in both… I’m not sure what to do now, it’s bad form to exclude IE users but they’d have a better experience with pulpcore… but then they’d have to get java if they don’t already have it… dilemmas!

]]> By: FlashMonkey http://www.flashmonkey.co.uk/research-now/#comment-295 FlashMonkey Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:15:58 +0000 http://www.flashmonkey.co.uk/?p=186#comment-295 I've changed that mate! ;) I’ve changed that mate! ;)

]]> By: tavis http://www.flashmonkey.co.uk/research-now/#comment-294 tavis Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:06:20 +0000 http://www.flashmonkey.co.uk/?p=186#comment-294 Word mang! Just a heads up, I'm ceasing to update my old site, the new one's: http://tinyrobot.co.uk safety! Word mang! Just a heads up, I’m ceasing to update my old site, the new one’s:

http://tinyrobot.co.uk

safety!

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