Bitmaps increase performance!
Alright, Peter has been doing some experiementing with LassieAS and brings us a great tip: Use prerendered bitmap backgrounds in your rooms as posed to vector illustrations. It will increase overall game performance, particularily with mouse tracking. This makes perfect sense: Flash has to process vector shapes as pixels for every screen redraw. By making your background bitmap, the Flash graphics engine has much less data to interpret before rendering a frame.
Alright, Peter has been doing some experiementing with LassieAS and brings us a great tip: Use prerendered bitmap backgrounds in your rooms as posed to vector illustrations. It will increase overall game performance, particularily with mouse tracking. This makes perfect sense: Flash has to process vector shapes as pixels for every screen redraw. By making your background bitmap, the Flash graphics engine has much less data to interpret before rendering a frame.