3D Game Development with Director 11
A new case study has been posted on Adobe.com that shows how some amazing 3D games are getting created by Mockworld. Very cool.
Be sure to check out the case study.
2 comments August 21st, 2008
Director 11 Patch Expected in October
From sources (Allen) on mailing lists it looks like a “hotfix” for Director 11 will be released in October. It will address the following issues:
- Kerning
- Justification
- 1536 px sprite width problem
- Leopard Font Crashes – Japanese Fonts and a few English Fonts families
- Fuzzy projector icon
- Text & Font Xtra Changes
- Aegia Physics issues (Restitution and Friction, Spinning issue when ball is shot at a different angle)
- External linked Scripts getting deleted when file has MAC line ending characters.
Add comment August 18th, 2008
Mac Shockwave Updated
I noticed a new build of Shockwave for Mac was released today. Wonder what is new?
Guess I’ll be playing with it tomorrow to see if anything broke 
Update: Seems as if the Windows version has also been updated.
Add comment August 6th, 2008
Director Live Online Meeting on Shockwave 3d
Interested in chatting with many other Director users? The next live online meeting will be happening next week, and the main focus is Shockwave 3D. At the last meeting there were about 50 developers online (along with a few people from Adobe). More information can be found here. See you there.
We invite you to the 3. Director Live Online Meeting, which will take place on Tuesday, July 15th @ 10am EDT.
The topic(s) will be:
* Future of Shockwave3D
* Q&A and community chatThere will be quite a few guys from Adobe attending such as Allen, Rajnish, Vivek, Krishnan, and potentially some more from the Shockwave3D team.
The meeting room will be open from 1 hour before the official start and will remain open for discussion 1 hour after the end of the meeting.
The meeting URL:
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/directorforum
Note:
If you want to talk to the community during the meeting, make sure you have a microphone and a headset to avoid echo and allow the Flash plugin to access your microphone when prompted.If you want to present (screen-share) during the meeting you will need to install the Adobe Connect Plugin when prompted to do so.
You don’t need to speak or share your screen though. The meeting will have a text chat to communicate.
Time Zones:
7:00am – Los Angeles
10:00am – New York
3:00pm – London
4:00pm – Berlin
7:30pm – India
0:00am – Sydney (Tue->Wed night)Click here for other time zones.
This announcement on Directorforum:
http://www.directorforum.com/showthread.php?t=1672Cheers,
Martin
Add comment July 11th, 2008
Second Director 11 Online Meeting
For you Director users out there be sure to keep an hour free tomorrow for the 2nd online meeting related to the future of Director.
According to Macromartin, the organizer, the meeting will be held for 1 hour to discuss:
1. The current state of Director
2. The future of Director
3. Introducing the public Director Feature Request System & Poll
4. Q&A and community chat‘The future of Director’ is my most concern. But I doubt that the answer will be a negative one since participants are all Director users.
For more information and the location of the online meeting read this post on K-Director.
I’ll be there!
1 comment June 23rd, 2008
PRegEx Xtra Coming Soon
On Direct-L it was announced that an updated version of the PRegEx Xtra for Director 11 will be release in the next few weeks. Great news!
PRegEx is a free, open source, Xtra that brings the power of Perl regular expressions and list handling to Lingo.
Add comment June 13th, 2008
New Home for Director Bugs
Do you happen to know of any Director bugs? Be sure to visit The Director Community Bugbase and report them if they aren’t already in the list. Even Adobe is keeping an eye on this list!
For many long-time Director Developers, the time between Director releases can be frustrating. Bugs crop up. Is it you? Is it Director?
The Director Community Bugbase is designed to help you find answers. Having a problem? Search the bugbase to see if sombody’s run across it before. Think you’ve found a bug? Enter it, and save somebody else the frustration you’re having.
The Director Community Bugbase is generously hosted and maintained by Creative Perspectives, Inc. one of the industry’s premier developers of multimedia applications.
Add comment June 12th, 2008
Serious/Meaningful Game Competition
Last year Michigan State U (where I got my PhD) started a Master’s program for Serious Game Design. I wish they’d had that back when I was there!
This fall they will be holding the Meaningful Play 2008 Conference.
Whether designed to entertain or for more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, and behavior.
Meaningful Play 2008 is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores the potential of games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference includes thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games.
Director 11 is being marketed towards the serious game community and it just so happens that there is a competition for serious games at the conference. If you have a serious game ready (or even an idea or something under development) you may want to read a bit more in their call for games.
The submission deadline isn’t until August 15, 2008, so get busy. Sounds like a great contest for something done in Director.
If you make it there, be sure to stop by the cyclotron…and catch a football game.
Add comment May 18th, 2008
Attack of Spambots = Quiet Time
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 N (where N > 10) on my blogs, but that has rapidly become a thing of the past. Hopefully I’m back up and running now, preferably without scissors
While I’ve been quiet I also noticed how quiet it was on the MXNA (Macromedia XML News Aggregator). They had some issues with their server, but the site is back up with a new and improved name of Adobe Feeds. Thanks to all of those at Adobe for the feeds. The site sure is faster than it used to be! Guess they now have a bit of power behind it. I know I’ll feel better now that I can browse through it in the morning.
Stay away hackbots…stay away…please!
Add comment May 6th, 2008
Director 11 for Mac Updated
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
!, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), _, +, |, },etc- Shockwave Audio (SWA) files were not streamed properly
- Field component performance is very slow on MAC
For detailed installation instructions and files changed, please see the readme.txt file.
You can download this update on the Director downloads page.
Add comment April 28th, 2008