[FONT=Arial]I tend to use background patterns in my websites. To achieve this, I would pattern the .gif or .jpg within the html file and drop the transparent movie over the top of it. Clearly, I can’t do this since the transparency (wmode=transparency) tends to make the site lag at an unbelievable rate, and I mean unbelievable!![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial] I’ve seen a tutorial for creating a pattern on kirupa.com and even tried writing my own code, but I cannot seem to get the pattern to work correctly and am worried about this method using just as much of the processor. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]The pattern I am using for this project is approx. 1200px wide and 72px tall, which seems very big, but it worked great in the html file. I remember reading in a cacheAsBitmap tutorial (http://www.flashguru.co.uk/) that the screen needs to refresh everything on the stage on every frame. If so, then if I have a full screen movie with this pattern is it going to have to refresh my 8+ instances of my pattern every time as well? I’m just very confused on how to even approach achieving this without the end result being choppy and lagging like hell. Also, I can’t seem to start the pattern at the top left of stage (0,0) when the stage is scaled at 100%, 100% . It will only start at 0,0 before the movie is scaled. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]I am EXTREMELY worried about this because 90% of my sites have some type of pattern/gradient background and I don’t know how to effectively apply them without bogging down the site. If anyone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated!!! [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Thanks a lot :beam:[/FONT]
