Simplifying Drawings?

[Maggie55]

I've drawn a complex image--a castle--with way too many nodes and segments. None of those lines need to move now, just needed them to draw it. My beautiful castle slows down everything when I try to animate around it. I'm trying to figure out how to simplify it. I thought this statement in the "updates" list was the thing I needed ("added compaction to stack saving to help with file size reduction/performance enhancement"), but I can't find anything on how to compact or reduce a file size. Seems like many of the backgrounds in the library (stairs, etc) have only the drag node and a single node to change directions. That's what I want to do with my castle. Any ideas?

mags

[GuitarMangler]

An easy way to simplify a styk like that is to get out the sub-select tool by double-clicking or selecting it from the tools window. Then you click on a line on the styk figure, doesn't really matter which one. Next you're going to want to go up to Edit -> Select All or you can use command + A for a mac and Option + A for windows. Now before you do anything all of the lines in the styk should be sub-selected then go into the segment properties panel and click the box that says "static." It will make it so all of those nodes that you don't need to use anymore won't get in the way and should speed up stykz as a result.

Hope this helps!

[Maggie55]

Thanks. That helped a lot, though I had a minute of heart failure when all the segment colors turned red and then gray. Took a couple beats, but then all the colors returned. Kinda like being in OZ. At this rate, I'll never stop animating--just making more and more detailed pieces.

mags