Anim Bizz

FLASH RANT Arrgh. When I learned Flash about 10 years ago I thought "wow, this package has a lot of potential". I've just picked it up to re-do my website and I am shocked at the lack of user friendliness. Making a simple hyperlink to a button involves a ridiculous amount of scripting in "actionscript". Now I am all for having scripting in software however simple functions should be script invisible to users. Or accessible via a script history. All easy html funtions should be button or menu driven. And AHH! Having to copy every little detail to every keyframe if you make changes. No way to batch copy attributes or 'apply to all keys'. No linking or referencing Photoshop files which sucks when you want to change layer details. No global resizing without crunching bitmap edges. Anyway, popping up a window is a lesson in patience but here's a link http://www.flepstudio.org/forum/tutorials/649-opening-popup-flash-cs3-javascript.html

ALPHA TRANSPARENCY WHEN IN FRONT OF PRIMARY VIS OFF OBJECTS Absolutely insane amount of time wasted on this one. If you have objects mapped with transparency and there are objects behind it with primary visibility turned off...the alpha in mental ray will pick up that invisible object. Really silly bug. Solution: hide the invisible object instead of primary vis.