http://www.directoratnight.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 07 May 2008 03:55:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been rather quiet lately. My spare hours have been working on recovering from an attack of spambots attacking this site, and others. My poor little Mac Mini hosts a dozen sites while holding a martini glass for any visitors that may drop by. I've ignored security for the past ... http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/05/06/attack-of-spambots-quiet-time/ An updated version of Director 11 was released over the weekend for Mac users: This is a Mac only update that addresses the following issues: Referencing a cast member fails when the Cast name has special characters like !, @, #, $, ... http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/04/28/director-11-for-mac-updated/ For the developers out there that like to get a slightly more descriptive error message in their Shockwave-based content you need to have a Shockwave.ini file placed in your shockwave folder. This prior post talked about where you should put it for Shockwave 10 on OSX. With Shockwave 11 you should ... http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/04/24/shockwaveini-jumps-to-new-home-osx/ Looks as if two new Director sites popped up recently. You can drop by CodeRecipe: A recipe for 3d game coders which seems to focus on using the Ageia PhysX engine to do 3d gaming in Director, and Adobe Director Online which is the site for Director users from Director ... http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/04/22/new-director-sites-pop-up/ Welcome to WordPress...yet again. I made quite a few behind the scene changes. Thanks to those that pointed out some things wrong on the site. I still have some changes to make, but I think I have things stabilized. http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/04/22/hello-world-yet-again/ I'll be honest, I still haven't had time to play with Dir 11. Drudge work lately has been leaving me so tired when I get home that I just want to veg out, run, or drink -- while avoiding computers. But while browsing around on Adobe.com and grabbing Lightroom 2.0 ... http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/04/16/1245-page-lingo-dictionary-new-technotes/ Here are a few thoughts from week 1 of the brand new Director 11. Most thoughts are from mailing lists (so I guess I can't really call them mine)...I've been so busy this and last week I haven't had time to think, and I've barely had time to play with ... http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/03/31/thoughts-from-week-1-of-director-11/ For those that are in to this sort of thing, drop by SocioTown. SocioTown is a 100% web-based 3D Social MMOG (Massive Multiplayer Online Game). It's playable in a browser with no downloadable client required. It utilizes Adobe's Shockwave Player. SocioTown is the biggest and most sophisticated browser-based 3D virtual world ... http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/03/29/sociotown-goes-beta/ I dropped TUAW a line about Shockwave the day it came out. They picked up on the story and made a post about it. Interesting comments rolling in. http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/03/29/after-years-of-waitingtuaw-mentions-shockwave/ OK. Director 11 is here. I found my first bug in about five minutes of playing. Is this a quirk, bug, or "feature?" Guess that is up to interpretation. Anyway...I put a Flash Component Button on the stage. I gave the sprite a name in the Property Inspector window. In ... http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/03/25/director-11bugs/