Category: Director

Many, many years ago, Kai Krause’s crack team of developers came up with one of the first cheap 3D tools. Like the rest of his tools, it sported an unconventional interface. Bryce could render (very slowly in those days) beautiful scenes of bizarre terrains, and it’s remained a staple of 3D dabblers and professionals over much of the past decade. Its most recent home has been at Corel, but it’s recently been acquired by 3D content developers DAZ Productions, Inc.

The past weekend saw a couple of threads on dirGames-L about the new Shockwave Player update, which includes a Yahoo! toolbar as a part of the install in addition to the ever-popular shockwave.com redirect.

Troy Hipolito of shockwaveserver.com kicked off the “Yahoo b + SW install official word?” subject on Friday, with 4 questions that were answered by Macromedia Director Product Manager Tom Higgins. Of course, a number of others added their thoughts as well.

On Saturday, first-time poster Peter Witham of Evolution Data posted a thoughtful rubric under the heading “Yahoo (Shockwave) player my take”.

Take my Yahoo! toolbar, please!

Macromedia’s Tom Higgins now has his own blog. One of us. One of us.

Kristl Honda of Clark College in Vancouver, WA passed this note on to me:

Programmer I Macromedia Lingo
Posted 6.2.2004

Major duties and responsibilities include creating new and modifying existing Macromedia Director Lingo scripts. Job requires understanding of Macromedia Director, Flash and Lingo. Experience with XML, HTML, PHP, SQL and Linux is a plus.

Please send resume to Oregon Center for Applied Science, Inc., 1839 Garden Ave., Eugene, OR 97403, e-mail: hr@orcasinc.com or fax: 541-342-4270. No phone calls, please.

If you want any info about Eugene, I can give my impressions from growing up there, but they are about 15 years out of date. A lot of people like it there!

Raman Pfaff of the Macromedia Site of the Day-worthy Explore Learning site noticed that Apple is offering a Director’s Special: a $300 rebate if you buy DVD Studio Pro 3 and Macromedia Director MX 2004, and an extra $200 rebate if that’s combined with a Power Mac G5.

Ullala, of 3DPI fame, has three user interface control behaviors available. They’re used in 3DPI, and are implemented with imaging Lingo. Check out the Slider, Wheel, and Button behaviors! Thanks to Raman Pfaff of Explore Learning for pointing these out.

FarbFlash‘s Alex da Franca reports that a number of people had asked him about the menuing system he used in his FindAll and ScriptingXtrasList tools. He’s rewritten and separated the code for the menu, and made it available on his site for your delectation!

Alex da Franca of FarbFlash has updated two of his helpful Director authoring Xtras.

FindAll, which does search and replace functions on cast members, now works with the PregEx Xtra to provide searching with regular expressions, Multiple instances can be opened. All uses of selected members can be found in the Score,

ScriptingXtrasList lists scripting Xtras and methods. It now scans for any Xtras used by the scripting Xtra.

Mark Reijnders of Peghole posted a link to a Quicktime movie demonstration of the “McGurk Effect”, where visual cues can confuse aural perception.

Michael Geary writes on DIRECT-L:

Hi folks,

I’ve made some important tweaks to the bundleMaker MIAW/.dir that I
started a while ago. It now produces healthier OS 9-compatible bundles.
Also added a copy progress bar (thanks BudAPI!), and some miscellaneous
improvements.

If you need to make OS X + OS 9 apps, bundles are the way to go, and
this little baby is designed specifically for Director projects.
Download and share freely.

http://www.gearyweb.com/bundlemaker.zip

-michael geary

p.s. much credit also goes to Johan Verhoeven for making this better

p.p.s. Please feel free to contribute/improve and re-post!