News and Views
NoiseCrime's D11.5 demos
21st of 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 of 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 of 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 of 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 of 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 of 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.
Director Next Roadmap Survey
9th of September, 2008
Dean (of Deans Director Tutorials) has created a new Director survey that attempts to gather information on current user base and their expectations 'going forward'.
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/survey/DirectorRoadmap/
So join the supporters of the Richmond FC as we spend September whistfully wondering what might have been and look for hope in what might come to be - and add your voice to the survey:
(Posted by Luke)Hotfix 01 (Director 11 on Mac OS X)
25th of April, 2008
Hotfix 01 is out -- get it here
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403452&sliceId=1
Fixes problems referencing cast member fails when the Cast name has special character, streaming problems with Shockwave Audio (SWA) and slow 'Field component performance'
(Posted by Admin)Andrade Arts is back!
24th of April, 2008
Like a successful full-forward for a team in its premiership window, Andrade Arts/ is back from retirement - with a new Universal Binary version of its Resolution Xtra for Mac Director 11!
(Posted by Luke)Director 11 is out! Really!
10th of April, 2008
Director 11 is out! Really! (You'd never know by visiting Adobe.com). The big changes (Unicode, MacIntel Support) have meant it can be a lot of work to make Xtras compatible with Director 11. This has thrown a blowtorch on Xtra developers and a few have, unfortunately, announced they will not be updating or continuing to sell Xtras and are shutting up shop. Some notable losses include
- http://www.andradearts.com/
- http://www.updatestage.com/
- OSControls (!!!)
Note that Xtras from Gary Smith (BuddyAPI, BuddyFile), Tabuleiro (vList, Arca etc), Marmalade (Amplitude), INM (Impressario,SecureNet etc), Schmittmachine (asFFT etc) have already been updated for Director 11, Chris Thorman has indicated that he is planning to update the fabulous (and free) PregEx Xtra (yay!), Electronic Ink has announced D11 version of Printomatic and hopefully the proficient Valentin Schmidt will update his many useful Xtras.
Also note that the Mile High Table from Updatestage has found a new home on Dean's site
(Posted by Admin)