Flash lost some points last week...

Ah ha! After a very long week I finally found the root of our issue when exporting from Flash.

Flash has trouble creating a 1 to 1 conversion into Bitmap if the exported Movieclip has any Filters on it. If a filter exists, such as BLUR or GLOW the effect does not translate well from Vector into Pixels, they end up taking up more space per pixel than vector does.

Here is a visual demonstration. 
This is the exported image from Flash. Note that 1. it is a lot bigger, 2. that it is not centered.These are two important factors in game development.

Size costs. The larger an asset is the more space it takes up on our sprite sheets. The more sprite sheets we have the slower the game runes.

The center point is very valuable in Pathogens case because so many of our animations are rotated to services all of our possible animation needs. If an asset is centered its much easier to identify the center point via code. center point == object.width/2 & object.height/2.

So how did we end up with the bottom result?

Well, we turned to a third party program called Kurst which captures the data of a .SWF and prints them out as PNG's. Its basically like taking a screen shot of every frame of the animation while its playing.

Animations are finally looking good in engine as a result. Sibyl is giving the rest of the colors to me today, had her only export out Green so I could figure out the issues, so by the end of the week we should have a build that is all good to go.