News and Views
Some lingo
15th June, 2011
Came across another cool lingo-orientated site: http://www.ed-multimedia.com
Great examples and some really interesting techniques and observations for Lingoing in an object orientated way
8th June, 2011
Hi loyal reader,
yes its been quiet here at the Lingoworkshop. Director is still getting regular use here at MeccaMedialight, but not for 3D casual games (which seems to be primary focus of Adobe's recently updates and enhancements) so there hasn't been much new stuff happening with Director to get excited about (we're using it for kiosks and educational CDs)
Anyway, Martijn has released 'a lingo powered tweenscript' - it looks very sweet. Check it out here:
http://www.elmartino.net/tinyTween/
(Posted by Luke)LingoF
29th January, 2010
LingoF is a Functional Programming Framework for Lingo. Basically it allows you to use Functions as Values. This Framework allows the Lingo developer to exploit all benefits from Functional Programming techniques to reach a higher abstraction level. Check it out
(Posted by Luke)Shockweave Updated
20th January, 2010
Shockwave updated today (version 11.5.6.606). Rather than failing silently under 64-bit Safari, shockwave now shows an alert dialog asking Mac Users to switch Safari to 32-bit mode. Hopefully the next release will include an actual 64-bit version!
Other changes are:
-- While installing Shockwave on Windows 7, the IE security dialog no longer appears multiple times.
-- Cross domain-Movies no longer crash when loadPolicyFile is called in prepareMovie script.
-- Text-pointToItem of a newline in a text sprite no longer causes the Movie to hang.
-- Text-"item..of" on strings having two item delimiters no longer returns incorrect results.
-- Cross domain- Movie no longer fails silently with multiple levels of cross domain policy.
-- Cross domain- Movie no longer crashes when loadPolicyFile is called in preparemovie script
NoiseCrime's D11.5 demos
21st April, 2009
NoiseCrime recently started a new page on www.noisecrime.com that focuses on the new features of D11.5. It has a number of demos, most are open source to give a starting point for other developers. Currently the main focus is on byteArrays, easily one of the most exciting features Director has had since imaging lingo and SW3D.
(Posted by Admin)Director 11.5 Released
24th March, 2009
Well, its here is all its glory: Director 11.5 Stay tuned for some interesting demos using the new audio engine and byte arrays. The 'reasons' for upgrading are (according to Adobe):
- Support for 5.1 surround sound
-Real-time audio mixing
-Audio effects and DSP filters
-H.264 MPEG-4, FLV, F4V video support
-Streaming support for audio and video with RTMP
-Ability to apply audio filters on a video
-Ability to apply Bitmap filters on a video
-Google Sketchup file import
-Enhanced physics engine with support for dynamic concave rigid bodies
-Byte Array datatype for binary data handling
-Multiple undo/redo for text editors
-Text rendering and performance optimization
-Cross-domain policy support for Shockwave
-Mac OS X Leopard support
They could add to this list:
- improved performance in the scriptEditor
- Byte Array datatype! (woot - this is special and deserves to be mentioned twice)
OpenSMUS - a fully open-source multiuser server
2nd January, 2009
Mauricio Piacentini from Tabuleiro has announced the release of OpenSMUS. It is a fully open-source multiuser server, compatible with the SMUS protocol.
Direct link to the project pages at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensmus/
Source code is available, as well as compiled packages and full documentation. The code was open sourced under a liberal MIT license, which allows both open source and commercial development.
OpenSMUS is the successor to Tabuleiro's Nebulae server, and the initial release is based on the latest version of Nebulae, 2.0.1, incorporating almost 8 years of development history.
Thanks Mauricio!
(Posted by Admin)PRegEx 2.0 for Director 11 is finally here.
8th December, 2008
PRegEx 2.0 (final - rev 167) for Director 11 is finally here. Get it now:
http://openxtras.org/pregex/
The Read Me is linked from that page. That Read Me has a "What's New in 2.0" section, comparing version 2.0 to 1.0.
(Posted by Admin)Tweaks and updates to Lingoworkshop's XLib
5th December, 2008
Recently uploaded some minor tweaks the XLib and added a new utility script to display paths of casts and linked members. Latest scripts are at http://www.lingoworkshop.com/Codelib/xlib.php
(Posted by Admin)Director and Shockwave Updated
10th November, 2008
Shockwave got updated patched hotfixed today - with an updater for the authoring available from http://www.adobe.com/support/director/downloads.html'. Some of the text issues and problems with the new Ageia Physics engine have been addressed.