Update: It's amazing what a difference simplicity makes...looks like using one angle of the character at a time will be the way to go. Thanks again!

Heh.....yeah, I guess some streamlining would be a darn good idea. I had no idea what the average was for the size of AS files. Oops.

I'll try doing the walk cycle with just one angle of the character at a time, see what happens. Thanks!

Honestly, good point about the keyframes, Heyvern. Test-manipulating the bones is one thing, adding in multiple keyframes for each bone in the skeleton is another. I'm gonna have to try tweaking what gets imported into the new file, as well as adjusting the settings you suggested, slowtiger. The ori...

I even tried putting the display quality down to wireframe levels when animating...but even that only affected things very slightly. Overall, any action I make in the new project file takes way too much time to respond...and forget about smooth playback. It really doesnt make sense.

That's the funny thing: the two project files are almost exactly identical: the only thing different was that i added a new bone + vector image to give it a prop to hold. Part of the reason why the character is so complicated is that it is made up of multiple switch layers with bones for head and bo...

I have been scanning the forums for an answer to this and can't find an explanation, so hopefully someone will know what I am talking about. :( After creating a character which uses reasonably complex bone rigging and switch layers (masking for eyes, lip synch for mouth, etc.), I tried to import it ...