wow

[El Dangeroso]

is it my imagination or is gg getting more detailed in their gear animations? very cool.

[guitargeek]

then you HAVE seen the hidden messages? JK...

we have been toying with the idea of animating the rigs in flash but the flash drawing tools are like kiddie crayons compared to illustrator...

any flash-nuts out there with a handle on illustrator > flash conversions? our flash exports from illustrator look like poopoo

[Malcolm203]

Its all vector graphics, right? Importing Illustrator files into Flash should work....or some illustrator > Photoshop > Flash movement would do the trick. Maybe even something using ImageReady to get animated gifs might work out nicely, subtle, w/o requiring a plug-in.

Need a hand?

[johnny]

wouldn't it be badass if the gear was shown in flash and you could toggle the effects off and on and mess with all the knobs on the amps and ****, kinda like buzzfox on steroids, only the stuff actually sounds different. is it just me or does every pedal on buzzfox sound the same?

[special k]

Freehand is seamless with all versions of Flash,
but if you have the newer versions of Illustrator
it should make things better for getting from Illustrator to Flash.

Personally I don't see much gained through using flash for the rigs, unless you could do some sort of 3d modeling of pedals.

I would imagine you could show signal path and such with simple animated .gifs, though.

It would be nice to have some instructional diagrams for basic maintenance of guitars, amps, and such. Like how to install a pickup done graphically step by step. You could have a little flash tutorial and a .pdf that people could download.

-k.

[guitargeek]

our reason for thinking about going to flash-based rigs would be for bandwidth reasons. it could shave quite a few K off of the bigger rigs...