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i ADOBE® DIRECTOR® 11 USER GUIDE - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 2
such license. Except as permitted by any such license, no part of this guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form organization. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Director, and Shockwave Player are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 3
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 iii User Guide Notice to U.S. government end users. The software and documentation are "Commercial Items," as that term is defined at 48 C.F.R. §2.101, consisting of "Commercial Computer Software" - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 4
iv Contents Chapter 1: Getting started Installation 1 Adobe Help 2 Resources 3 What's new 5 Chapter 2: Workspace User Interface enhancements 7 Understanding the Director metaphor 8 Navigating the Director workspace 9 Getting to know the workspace 9 Getting to know - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 5
v Selecting sprites 62 Naming sprites 64 Finding sprites 66 Creating sprite channel names 67 Layering sprites 67 Displaying and editing sprite properties 68 Locking and unlocking sprites 72 Positioning sprites 73 Controlling the entrance of a sprite on the stage 77 Controlling the duration - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 6
Setting Paint window preferences 130 Compressing bitmaps 131 Working with Adobe Fireworks 132 Bitmap filters 135 Chapter 7: Vector Shapes Unicode support in Director 190 Chapter 10: Using Flash, Flash Components, and Other Interactive Media Types Using Flash Content 193 Adding a Flash content - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 7
211 Using Director movies within Director movies 212 Setting linked Director movie properties 213 Using ActiveX controls 214 Using Flash components 216 Button component 219 CheckBox component 220 DateChooser component 221 Label component 223 List component 224 NumericStepper component - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 8
viii Playing digital video Direct To Stage 250 Controlling digital video in the Score 251 Playing digital video with Lingo or JavaScript syntax 252 Setting QuickTime digital video cast member properties 253 Controlling QuickTime with Lingo or JavaScript syntax 254 Using Windows Media files in - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 9
ix Chapter 15: 3D Basics What you need to know 300 About 3D in Director 300 The 3D Xtra extension 302 Using the Shockwave 3D window 302 Using the Property inspector for 3D 303 Using rendering methods 305 Using 3D anti-aliasing 306 3D behaviors 307 3D text 308 The 3D world 308 Chapter 16: - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 10
Testing Director Projects Managing Director projects 433 About testing movies to avoid problems 434 Printing movies 435 Resources 436 Chapter 24: Packaging Movies for Distribution About distributing movies 437 Shockwave player browser compatibility 438 Using the lingo.ini file to run startup - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 11
Using dswmedia folders and the support folder to publish Shockwave movie files 460 Chapter 25: Using Shockwave Player Streaming movies 462 About network operations 463 Setting are loaded with Lingo or Java Script syntax 466 Downloading files from the Internet with Lingo or JavaScript syntax - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 12
drive, and follow the on-screen instructions. Activate the software If you have a single-user retail license for your Adobe software, you will be asked to complimentary installation support, notifications of updates, and other services. • To register, follow the on-screen instructions in the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 13
• Troubleshooting • Customer support • Legal notices Adobe Help Adobe Help resources Adobe Help resources Documentation for your Adobe software is available in a variety of formats. In-product and LiveDocs Help In-product Help provides access to all documentation and instructional content - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 14
DIRECTOR 11.0 3 User Guide Resources Extras Adobe Design Center Adobe Developer Center Customer support Downloads Adobe Labs User communities Extras You have access to a wide variety of resources that will help you make the most of your Adobe software. Some of these resources are installed on your - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 15
'll find RSS feeds, online seminars, SDKs, scripting guides, and other technical resources. Visit Adobe Developer Center at www.adobe.com/go/developer. Customer support Visit the Adobe Support website (www.adobe.com/go/support) to find troubleshooting information for your product and to learn about - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 16
Guide What's new Top new features of Adobe® Director® 11 Top new features of Adobe® Director® 11 DirectX® 9 driver Use the DirectX 9 driver for rendering 3D graphics. Support Unicode-supported languages written from left to right. New text engine Display textual information in Adobe Shockwave Player - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 17
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 6 User Guide • Shockwave Player is supported on Mac OS X v10.4, Windows Vista, and Mac PPC. • Shockwave Projector is supported on Mac OS X v10.4, Windows Vista, and Mac PPC. Multiuser Xtra Develop movies using the Multiuser Xtra supported on Windows and Mac OS X v10.4. This Xtra - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 18
7 Chapter 2: Workspace The Adobe® Director® workspace is designed to make the most efficient use of the space on your screen. Windows, also called panels, can be organized into tabbed - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 19
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 8 User Guide • Exiting and re-entering the tabbed view. Windows®' users can exit the tabbed document mode by clicking the Restore button. Mac® users can use the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 20
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 9 User Guide B A C A. Stage B. Score C. Cast The Cast window, the Stage, and the Score in Director Navigating the Director workspace When you first start Director, several windows open - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 21
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 10 User Guide The default Director workspace (Windows platform) Manipulating the default workspace The default workspace is designed for most people who are new to using Director. You - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 22
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 11 User Guide These commands all open dialog boxes that allow you to modify scale the coordinates for the sprites on the Stage, so that they continue to fill the entire screen. Guides, grids, and Align and Tweak windows are available to align sprites on the Stage. Moving around on - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 23
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 12 User Guide Move around on the Stage 1 If the Stage is not already displayed, select as a percentage of the normal Stage size. When you change the size of the Stage, any guides or grids used to assist with alignment also scale to the zoomed size, and you can manipulate sprites - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 24
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 13 User Guide Using the Score Like the Stage, the Score provides a view of your movie. The Stage provides a graphical view. The Score provides a view of the movie's - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 25
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 14 User Guide Create a new marker 1 If the Score is not already displayed, select Window > Score. 2 Display the frame that you want to mark with a marker. 3 Directly above - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 26
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 15 User Guide To show or hide the effects channels: • Click the Hide/Show Effects Channels button in the upper-right corner of the Score to change the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 27
Change the zoom setting 1 On the right side of the Score, click the Zoom Menu button. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 16 User Guide A A. Zoom Menu button 2 Select a size from the Zoom menu. Sizes are displayed as a percentage of full size. Using the Control panel The Control panel governs - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 28
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 17 User Guide B A A. Volume button B. Rewind, Stop, and Play buttons Movie playback options in the floating Control panel Navigating frames in a movie As you build a movie, you sometimes - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 29
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 18 User Guide The Cast window filled with cast members Create a new cast member 1 If the Cast window is not already displayed, select Window > Cast. 2 On the Tool - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 30
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 19 User Guide Using the Property inspector Every cast member and sprite in a movie has properties. You can view and change these properties by using the Property inspector. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 31
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 20 User Guide Setting cast member and sprite properties Each time you select a sprite, cast member, or multiple sprites and cast members, your view of the Property inspector - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 32
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 21 User Guide about the movie. This information is important if your movie will be downloaded from the Internet and saved on a user's system. 9 To save of Director. Java Script syntax was recently introduced to support multimedia developers who prefer working with Java Script. By - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 33
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 22 User Guide your own scripts, Director includes a set of prepackaged instructions, called behaviors, that you can simply drag to sprites :script name>. Using the Message window The Message window supports testing and debugging in Director. These features are especially important - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 34
2 In the Message window, click the Trace button. A ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 23 User Guide A. Trace button When the Trace button is indented, the Message . To make the most efficient use of your workspace, Director also supports default and customized docking of panel groups. You can dock panel groups - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 35
B A C ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 24 User Guide A. Expander arrow to collapse and expand panels or panel groups B. Gripper to dock and undock panels or panel groups C. Options menu button Features in the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 36
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 25 User Guide Note: If Group [panel name] With is not available on the Options menu, then the panel cannot panel groups have a header bar just below their title bar, as shown in the following illustration. Panels and panel groups that do not have this header bar are not dockable. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 37
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 26 User Guide A A. Gripper is present in the header bar A header bar with a gripper, indicating that the panel is dockable Dock a panel or panel group • On the header - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 38
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 27 User Guide • To return to the default layout, select Window > Panel Sets > Default. Remove a panel set 1 Select Window > Panel Sets > Remove Panel Set. 2 From the Panel Set - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 39
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 28 User Guide A A. download and installation. If you know the C programming language, you can create custom Xtra extensions. For information on creating custom Xtra extensions, see the Macromedia Xtras Developers Support page in the Director Support Center at www.adobe.com/support - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 40
DIRECTOR 11.0 29 User Guide Adding media Xtra extensions can import media as cast members into Director. Some of these media Xtra extensions are built into Director, such as Adobe Flash®, Vector Shape, and Animated GIF. Other media Xtra extensions come from third- party developers. These include - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 41
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 30 User Guide Adding transitions Transition Xtra extensions provide additional use all of its features. Xtra extensions can be packaged with projectors, or your user can download your required Xtra extensions from the Internet. If your user is missing an Xtra extension that - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 42
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 31 User Guide specifies that you have a direct connection to the Internet. Manual Configuration allows you to customize proxy settings for your system. do not require proxy servers to interact with the network services of external sources. However, in some network configurations - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 43
three of the most important windows in Adobe® Director®: the Score, the Stage, and for the Tool palette: Default, Classic, and Flash® component. Each view contains some of the are available at all times: Display Template, Movie, and Guides. • The Display Template tab lets you set properties for - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 44
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 33 User Guide • The Guides tab lets you control the guides and grid that appear on the Stage to assist with movie authoring. The bottom half of the Guides tab contains grid settings. Setting guides and grid properties Guides are horizontal or vertical lines that you can either - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 45
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 34 User Guide Changing Score settings Set preferences for the Score to control the appearance of the Score and the information that appears in numbered sprite channels. By - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 46
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 35 User Guide • To move or copy frames, select Edit > Cut Frames or bitmaps, vector shapes, text, scripts, sounds, Adobe Flash content or components, DVD content, QuickTime® movies, Windows Media video or audio, Shockwave® Player 3D content, rich text, sounds of various formats - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 47
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 36 User Guide You can create and edit cast members in Director by using elements. Create as many casts as necessary. The number of casts does not affect the size of a movie for downloading. You can include as many as 32,000 cast members in a single cast, but it's usually best to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 48
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 37 User Guide A A. Cast button 2 In the New Cast dialog box, type a name for from Director when you double-click a cast member, and you can edit almost any type of supported media. For more information, see Launching external editors. You can also import cast members. For more - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 49
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 38 User Guide • Embedding fonts in movies • Creating an animated color cursor cast member • Drawing vector shapes • Using Flash Content • Using Windows Media files in Director • Using DVD media content in Director • Importing digital video formats • Using animated GIFs 3 To - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 50
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 39 User Guide 2 To change the name of the current cast, enter the new name in the Name text box. 3 Select a Preload option to define how cast members - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 51
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 40 User Guide If you've selected multiple cast members, the information that is see the following topics: • Using animated GIFs • Embedding fonts in movies • Using Flash Content • Setting and changing bitmap cast member properties • Setting vector shape properties • Synchronizing - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 52
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 41 User Guide • Setting Flash component parameters • Setting Windows Media properties movie, it's a good idea to remove unused cast members to make the movie as small as possible for downloading. 1 Select Edit > Find > Cast Member. 2 In the Find Cast Member dialog box, select a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 53
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 42 User Guide 4 When Director displays the specified cast member, do one of the media from the Internet, such as sports scores, sounds, and weather pictures. Linking makes downloading movies faster. For more information about linked files, see About linking to files. Director - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 54
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 43 User Guide 4 To select files to import, . For example, if you specify Photoshop to edit PICT images, Director maintains all the Photoshop object data. For more information, text • Using animated GIFs • Using Flash Content • Importing Windows Media • Using DVD media content - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 55
/support/ French: http://www.adobe.com/fr/support/ Japanese: http://www.adobe.com/jp/support/ Type of file Animation and multimedia Supported formats ® Flash movies, animated GIF, PowerPoint presentations, Director movies, Director external cast files Image BMP, GIF, JPEG, LRG (xRes), Photoshop - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 56
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 45 User Guide • If you distribute a movie, you also must include all linked cast member files, and they must be in their expected locations.The Copy Linked And - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 57
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 46 User Guide 5 To apply the current settings to all the remaining files that you selected for importing, select Same Settings For Remaining Images. Controlling cast member unloading - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 58
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 47 User Guide Note: If you are using a Mac OS X operating system, select the of the Cast window, select an option from the Row Width menu. The options for 8 Thumbnails, 10 Thumbnails, and 20 Thumbnails specify fixed-row widths that are independent of the window size. If the Cast - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 59
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 48 User Guide windows, including the Score, whenever a cast ID appears. 10 To specify whether Director displays an icon that indicates the cast settings, click Save As Default. Naming cast members To avoid problems in Lingo or JavaScript syntax when referring to cast members, name - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 60
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 49 User Guide Select multiple nonadjacent cast members • In either List or Thumbnail view, Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac) each cast member that you want to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 61
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 50 User Guide Organizing cast members within the Cast window The Sort command scripts that refer to cast members by number, these scripts can't find moved cast members. To avoid this problem, always name your cast members and refer to them by name in your scripts. If you want to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 62
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 51 User Guide Options menu Use a Cast panel Options menu • Click the Options menu control in the upper right of the panel, and select a menu item. Help launches - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 63
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 52 User Guide Note: Save your panel layout if you want to restore your Cast panel configuration the next time you open your file. Select Window > Panel Sets > - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 64
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 53 User Guide Select the previous or next cast member • Click the Previous Cast Member or Next Cast Member button. Move a selected cast member to a new position in - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 65
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 54 User Guide Column Title Type Modified Comments Column Information The cast member type. The date and time the cast member was changed. Displays text entered in the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 66
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 55 User Guide Icon Cast member type Animated GIF Bitmap Check box Digital video Field Flash component Font Movie script Palette PICT Radio button Shape Shockwave Audio Text Vector shape Xtra Icon Cast member type Behavior Button Custom cursor DVD Film - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 67
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 56 User Guide Creating a custom cast member thumbnail Note: For most cast members, cast member media. You can easily edit Flash cast members by using the launch-and-edit feature in Director. For more information, see Editing a Flash cast member. To use an external editor for - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 68
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 57 User Guide Define an external editor 1 Select Edit > Preferences > Editors. Note: If you are using a Mac OS X operating system, select the Director menu, instead of the Edit - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 69
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 58 User Guide When you distribute a movie that uses an external cast, you must be in the same relative path in your files as it was when the movie was created. For Shockwave Player movies on the web, the cast must be at the specified URL. Create an external cast 1 Select File > - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 70
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 59 User Guide 1 Create an external cast file, using the procedure under Creating new casts. Do not select Use In Current Movie. 2 With the Cast window for the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 71
60 User Guide The custom tab for the type of cast member you are working with might also contain a More Options button. This button displays the Cast Member Properties dialog box for the current cast member. The Xtra developer determines the content of the Properties dialog box. For non-Adobe Xtra - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 72
61 Chapter 4: Sprites A sprite is an object that controls when, where, and how cast members appear in an Adobe® Director® movie. Multiple sprites can use the same cast member. You can also switch cast members assigned to a sprite as the movie plays. Use the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 73
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 62 User Guide 1 Select Edit > Preferences > Sprite. Note: If you are using a Mac OS® X be tweened. This option is on by default. With this option off, sprites must be manually tweened when new frames or keyframes are added to the sprite. For additional information about tweening, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 74
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 63 User Guide Single frame within sprite selected Select sprites Do one of the following: Note: The following techniques select an entire sprite only if Edit Sprite Frames - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 75
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 64 User Guide Select a frame within a sprite that is not a keyframe Do one of the following: • In the Score, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac) the frame - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 76
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 65 User Guide Consider naming the sprite with an easily recognizable name that will be easy to script. View a sprite in the Score by its name 1 In the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 77
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 66 User Guide put sprite(1).name -- this displays the name in the message window. You can also refer to the sprite by using its given name when evoking - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 78
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 67 User Guide Creating sprite channel names You can also name sprite channels. When authoring sprites in Lingo or JavaScript syntax, you often must work in a particular channel - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 79
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 68 User Guide Note: If you give each sprite a unique name, you don't need to update any scripts you have written when you move a sprite to a new channel. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 80
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 69 User Guide Note: To open a window for editing the sprite's cast member, double-click the thumbnail image. 3 Edit any of the following sprite settings in the Property - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 81
A B ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 70 User Guide E C D A. Name, cast, and media type of sprite's cast member B. Channel number; left, top, right, and bottom coordinates; ink; and blend settings C. Attached behavior(s) D. Overlay opacity - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 82
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 71 User Guide Displaying sprite labels in the Score Sprite labels appear in caused by an ink effect, you can select Ink from the Sprite Label menu and quickly locate the problem in those sprites that have Ink properties by sorting the Ink label. You can select the way information - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 83
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 72 User Guide Editing sprite properties with Lingo or JavaScript syntax You can of your locked sprites, you can continue to create and edit unlocked sprites. Locking sprites is not supported during playback. Note: If you try to perform an operation on a group of locked and - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 84
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 73 User Guide • Right- Use the Tweak window. • Use guides or the grid. • Use the Align window. • Use the arrow keys to manually move a selected sprite. • bitmap cast members, see Changing registration points. For instructions on changing a vector shape cast member's registration - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 85
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 74 User Guide 2 Do one of the following on the Stage: • Drag a sprite selected sprite 1 pixel at a time. Hold down Shift as you press an arrow key to move the selection 10 pixels at a time. Visually position a sprite on the Stage during playback 1 Select a sprite that you want - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 86
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 75 User Guide Moving a sprite with the Snap To Grid or Snap To Guides feature selected lets you snap the sprite's edges and registration point to the nearest grid or guide line. When you're not using the guides or the grid, you can hide them. Guides and the grid are visible only - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 87
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 76 User Guide Align sprites using the Align window 1 On the Stage or in the Score, select the sprites to align. Select entire sprites, keyframes, or frames within - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 88
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 77 User Guide Determine whether two sprites overlap • Use the sprite...intersects operator to determine whether a sprite's bounding rectangle touches the bounding rectangle of a second sprite. Use the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 89
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 78 User Guide Controlling the duration of a sprite on the stage By default, Director assigns each new sprite a duration of 30 frames. You can change the duration of a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 90
> Split Sprite. Director splits the sprite into two new ones. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 79 User Guide Join separate sprites into a single sprite 1 Select the sprites you number of cast members in your movie and causes it to download faster. Reusing the same cast member for multiple sprites also reduces - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 91
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 80 User Guide 2 On the Stage, drag any of the sprite's resize handles. To sprites at once by the same angle. Director can rotate and skew bitmaps, text, vector shapes, Flash® content, QuickTime® videos, and animated GIFs. Director rotates a sprite around its registration point, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 92
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 81 User Guide Rotation changes the angle of the sprite. Skewing changes the corner angles of the sprite's rectangle. Rotated sprite Skewed sprite After a sprite is rotated or - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 93
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 82 User Guide Rotate Skew A. Skew B. Rotate Resize a rotated or skewed sprite Do one of the following: • Click the Rotate And Skew tool and drag any of the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 94
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 83 User Guide • Select Modify > Transform > Mirror Horizontal or Mirror Vertical to flip the sprite without moving the registration point but inverting the skew and rotation angles. Changing - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 95
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 84 User Guide Set blending for a sprite 1 Select the sprite. 2 Select a percentage from the Blend menu in the Property inspector, or enter a blend percentage between 0 and 100. Set - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 96
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 85 User Guide 2 Select the desired type of ink from the Ink menu on the Sprite tab in the Property inspector. Change a sprite's ink with script • Set the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 97
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 86 User Guide About Darken and Lighten inks Darken and Lighten inks provide a great control the effects, you can animate color shifts to create dazzling effects without having to manually edit colors in a cast member. See Tweening other sprite properties. Ink definitions The - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 98
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 87 User Guide Mask determines the exact transparent or opaque parts of a sprite. For Mask ink to work, you must place a mask cast member in the Cast window - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 99
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 88 User Guide Setting this property is the most reliable way to specify a sprite's cast member. You can also set the memberNum sprite property, but this is reliable - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 100
of an image changing over time. The most common types of animation in Adobe® Director® involve moving a sprite on the Stage (tweening animation) and using additional data needs to download when a single cast member changes. • Frame-by-frame animation involves manually creating every frame in an - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 101
A B C ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 90 User Guide A. Keyframes B. Start frame C. End frame Tweening the path of a sprite Sprite paths are the lines Director displays on the Stage to show the movement of a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 102
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 91 User Guide This creates a new keyframe and records the new location. Tweening size works best for vector-based cast members created in the Vector Shape window or in Adobe® Flash® (bitmaps can become distorted when resized). Director can tween all of these properties at once. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 103
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 92 User Guide more information, see Setting blends. • To tween rotation or skew, manually rotate or skew the sprite to the beginning position on the Stage keyframe in the Score to a new frame within the sprite. 10 To view the tweening, rewind and play the movie. Director gradually - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 104
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 93 User Guide • To extend the sprite and leave the last keyframe in place, Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac) a keyframe at the end of a sprite. • To - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 105
Ease-Out defines the percentage of the sprite span through which the sprite decelerates. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 94 User Guide Switching a sprite's cast members To show different content while maintaining all other sprite properties, exchange the cast member assigned to a sprite. This technique is - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 106
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 95 User Guide Use Edit Sprite Frames Do one of the downloaded before the animation can run. As an alternative to this type of animation, consider using vector shapes, rotation and skewing on bitmap cast members, or Flash content. For more information, see Using Flash, Flash - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 107
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 96 User Guide Animate a sprite with multiple cast members 1 Create a sprite by align sprites relative to their bounding rectangles. For more information, see Positioning sprites by using guides, the grid, or the Align window. Shortcuts for animating with multiple cast members The - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 108
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 97 User Guide Cast To Time places selected cast members in the Score as a single sprite. 1 Select the frame in the Score where you want to place the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 109
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 98 User Guide Onion skinning provides a benefit in the Paint window similar to move along a curve. Arrange the cast members in one frame, select Modify > Space To Time, and add 10 to 20 cells between each cast member to produce a smooth curve. Using film loops A film loop is an - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 110
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 99 User Guide 2 Select Insert > Film Loop. 3 Enter a name for the film loop. Director stores all the Score data and cast member references as a new film loop cast - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 111
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 100 User Guide 0-Never sets the selected cast members to be retained in memory; these cast members are never unloaded. 7 Click the Film Loop tab and display the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 112
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 101 User Guide Real-time recording animation You can create animation by recording the movement of a sprite as you drag it across the Stage. The real-time recording - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 113
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 102 User Guide Animating sprites with Lingo or JavaScript syntax Lingo or JavaScript syntax can create animation regardless of the settings in the Score. This allows you to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 114
and vector shapes are the two main types of graphics used with Adobe® Director®. A bitmap defines an image as a grid of comparable vector shape. If not compressed, bitmaps take longer than vector shapes to download from the Internet. Director offers compression control to reduce the size of bitmaps - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 115
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 104 User Guide About importing bitmaps Importing bitmaps is similar to only difference is that when the Select Format dialog box appears, you select Animated GIF. Director supports both the GIF89a and GIF87 formats. GIFs must have a global color table to be imported. You - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 116
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 105 User Guide You can make an animated GIF play Direct To Stage, meaning that it immediately appears on the Stage instead of being first composed in an - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 117
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 106 User Guide Select an irregular area Do one of the following: • Click the Lasso tool in the Paint window, and drag to enclose the pixels you want - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 118
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 107 User Guide Zoom in or out on an area • Click the Magnifying Glass tool, and click in the Paint window to zoom in. Shift-click to zoom - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 119
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 108 User Guide Paint shapes or lines • Click and drag the shape tools. To constrain lines to horizontal or vertical, ovals to circles, and rectangles to squares, Shift- - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 120
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 109 User Guide • To define a tile (a pattern that is based on a rectangular section of an existing cast member), select Tile Settings from the Patterns menu. For more information, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 121
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 110 User Guide Select a polygon area with the Lasso tool 1 Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) while clicking the first point. 2 Click the remaining points. 3 Double-click the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 122
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 111 User Guide See Thru Lasso modifies the selection function so that pixels with the same color as the first pixel selected are excluded in the selection. Using - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 123
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 112 User Guide 3 Open the menu again, and select Settings from the Brush menu. Enter values for the options in the Brush Settings dialog box. (You can also - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 124
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 113 User Guide Magnified image Return to normal view Do one of the following: • Click the normal-sized image in the upper-right corner. • Select View > Zoom > 100%. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 125
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 114 User Guide Lingo or JavaScript™ syntax can flip and rotate bitmaps by flipping and rotating bitmap sprites. For more information, see Rotating and skewing sprites and Flipping - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 126
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 115 User Guide • To reverse the colors of the selected area, click the Invert button. • To increase or reduce the brightness of the selected area, click the Lighten - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 127
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 116 User Guide Changing registration points A registration point is a marker that locations, you can make a series of images move around a fixed position without having to manually place the sprites on the Stage. Use onion skinning to set registration points when images are - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 128
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 117 User Guide Set a bitmap's registration point with Lingo or JavaScript syntax • the following: Lingo: member("bitmapMemberName").regPoint = point(10,10) JavaScript: member("bitmapMemberName").regPoint = point(10,10); For more information, see the Scripting Reference topics in - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 129
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 118 User Guide 256 grays Remapped to closest colors in black and white Dithered in black and white 6 Click Transform to execute the changes. The settings you select - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 130
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 119 User Guide Capture the current graphic contents of the Stage • Set a bitmap's picture cast member property to the Stage's picture property. For more information, see the Scripting - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 131
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 120 User Guide Determine the color of an individual pixel of an image object or set that pixel's color • Use the getPixel or setPixel method. Copy part or - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 132
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 121 User Guide Selecting a gradient type automatically sets the current Paint window ink to Gradient. You can also select Gradient ink from the Ink menu at the bottom left of the Paint window to create a gradient with all the current settings. To manually specify a gradient, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 133
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 122 User Guide Adjacent Colors uses all colors between the foreground and background colors and blends them with a dithered pattern. Two Colors uses only the foreground and background - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 134
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 123 User Guide Three Smooth cycles the gradient from foreground to destination, one of the filled shape tools. 2 Select the type of pattern from the Patterns menu. To manually specify a pattern, select Pattern Settings from the menu. For more information, see Editing patterns. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 135
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 124 User Guide • To edit a pattern, select Custom. Custom is an editable copy effective way of filling a large area with interesting content without using much memory or increasing the download time. They are especially useful for large movies on the web. A custom tile uses the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 136
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 125 User Guide You can select an ink effect from the Ink menu at the bottom of the Paint window. The result of the ink you select depends - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 137
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 126 User Guide Reveal works indirectly with the art in the previous cast position. Imagine the previous cast member's artwork covered with a white area. Reveal ink erases the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 138
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 127 User Guide Using onion skinning Onion skinning derives its name from a technique used by conventional animators, who would draw on thin onion skin paper so that they - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 139
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 128 User Guide A. Registration point Two preceding cast members shown with onion skinning and registration points The specified number of cast members appear as dimmed images behind the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 140
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 129 User Guide the series. Its image appears in the background in the Paint window. 10 Repeat step 8 until you finish drawing all the cast members in animate more slowly than bitmap cast members, and they don't support ink effects. When you use color cycling or palette transitions - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 141
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 130 User Guide 2 If the bitmap cast member is linked to an external file a script. 5 To make Director approximate an original color in the bitmap if there is a palette problem, select Dither. When a color is not available because of a palette conflict, Dither displays a pattern - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 142
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 131 User Guide 3 To control the way colors cycle when you draw with Cycle ink to distribute your movie over the Internet, you can compress your bitmap images to ensure faster downloading. Director lets you compress images at the movie level and for individual cast members. Bitmap - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 143
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 132 User Guide Movie Setting is usually the default compression setting, except compression). Note: Director saves the publish settings when you save the movie. Working with Adobe Fireworks You can combine the power of Fireworks and Director. Fireworks lets you export graphics - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 144
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 133 User Guide Exporting layered and sliced content to Director By exporting Fireworks slices to Director, you can export sliced and interactive content such as buttons and rollover - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 145
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 134 User Guide 3 Change the following options if you wish: Color lets you specify a color depth for the imported graphics. If the graphics contain transparency, select 32-bit - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 146
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 135 User Guide 3 Make changes to the image, and click Done when you finish , PNG, JPG, PSD, text, QD and vector shapes, SWF, BMP, and AVI. You can install Photoshop®-compatible filters to change images within Director. For the bitmap filter effect to be visible, the bit-depth of - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 147
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 136 User Guide Install a filter • Place the filter in the Xtras folder syntax You can also apply filters to a sprite after applying an ink to the sprite. Filters are not supported on film loops. Note: Filters applied to DTS-enabled sprites are not reflected. Apply a filter to a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 148
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 137 User Guide Apply a filter to a sprite, using Lingo/JavaScript In Lingo sprite(1).filterlist.append(MyFilter) In JavaScript sprite(1).filterlist.append(MyFilter) ; or append the filter to a filterlist - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 149
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 138 User Guide Blur filter applied to a text sprite Property number of times to perform the blur. 0-15 The strength of the imprint or spread. The higher the 0-10 value, the more color is imprinted and the stronger the contrast between the glow and the background. The color - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 150
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 139 User Guide Property alpha:Number knockout:Boolean inner:Boolean Description Value Range The the blur. 0-15 The strength of the imprint or spread. The higher the 0-10 value, the more color is imprinted and the stronger the contrast between the glow and the background. Default 4 - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 151
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 140 User Guide strengthPercent: Number 0-1000 shadowColor:Color The shadow color of the bevel. var MyFilter2 = filter(symbol("BevelFilter"), propList(symbol("distance"),5,symbol("blurX"),10,symbol("blurY"),5, symbol("angle"),50,symbol("strength"),40, symbol("highlightColor"), - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 152
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 141 User Guide Property summary Property brightness:Number contrast:Number saturation:Number hue:Number Description Adjusts the brightness of an to apply the filter. The strength of the imprint or spread. Value Range 0-255 0-255 0-15 0-10 0-1000 Default 4 4 1 (low) 1 100 - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 153
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 142 User Guide Property colorList:List of new color ratios angle:Number distance:Number inner 0, symbol("inner"), 1, symbol("colorList"),list(newColorRatio(color(255,0,0),10), newColorRatio(color(123,123,0),10)))); Gradient bevel filter Use the Gradient Bevel filter to apply - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 154
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 143 User Guide Property strength:Number strengthPercent:Number colorListList of new color ratios angle:Number distance:Number inner:Number knockout:Boolean Description Value Range Default The strength of the imprint or spread. The higher the 0-10 1 value, the more color is - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 155
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 144 User Guide Drop Shadow filter Use the Drop Shadow filter to add a drop shadow times to apply the filter. 0-15 strength:Number The strength of the imprint or spread. The 0-10 higher the value, the more color is imprinted and the stronger the contrast between the glow and the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 156
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 145 User Guide propList("distance",5, "angle",5, "color",color(20,20,30), "alpha",0.5, "blurX",3, "blurY",50, "strength",3, "quality",3, "inner",1, "knockout",1, "hideObject",1)); or var MyFilter2 = filter(symbol("DropShadowFilter"), propList(symbol(" - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 157
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 146 User Guide sprite(1).filterlist.append(myFilter) JavaScript Syntax: // This is an Embossing Effect myList = list(-2, -1, 0,-1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2); myMatrix = newMatrix(3,3,myList); //myMatrix.setVal(3,3,0); // Another way to set particular matrix element - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 158
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 147 User Guide Property Mode: Number color:Color alpha:Number Description Value Range Default Determines what Director should do in any empty spaces created by pixels being shifted - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 159
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 148 User Guide Remove filters applied to a sprite You can remove a specific a bitmap filter with Auto Filter. Note: Most filters don't support auto-filtering. The Auto Filter dialog box lists only those filters that support it. 1 Select a bitmap cast member or a range of cast - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 160
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 149 User Guide When you finish working with the filter controls, the Auto Filter dialog box reappears. 4 Click Set Ending Values, and use the filter controls to enter - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 161
shapes and bitmaps are the two main types of graphics used with Adobe® Director®. A vector shape is a mathematical description of a geometric less RAM and disk space than an equivalent bitmap image, and they download faster from the Internet. Drawing vector shapes You create vector shapes with - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 162
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 151 User Guide To open the Vector Shape window, Select Window > Vector Shape. Zooming in and out in the Vector Shape window You can use the Magnify tool - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 163
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 152 User Guide • To create a corner point, click once. • To create a curve point, click and drag. Dragging creates all the shapes as one if you change shape attributes. If, for example, you create 10 open shapes in one Vector Shape window and select Close, Director closes all - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 164
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 153 User Guide Choosing fill and line settings for vector shapes Use controls in either the Vector Shape window or Lingo or JavaScript syntax to choose a vector shape's - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 165
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 154 User Guide Specify a vector shape's fill in script • Set the fillColor, fillMode, fillOffset, and fillScale cast member properties. For more information about these properties, see the Scripting - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 166
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 155 User Guide If you select two endpoint vertices, you join them. If you select points in the middle of the curve, you join the start of the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 167
for a vector shape 1 Create a closed vector shape in the Vector Shape window. 2 Click the Gradient button in the Fill type controls. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 156 User Guide 3 To select colors for the gradient, click the color box on the left side of the Gradient Colors control and select a starting - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 168
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 157 User Guide • To display or specify the registration point for the vector shape same size, no matter how you resize the sprite, even if it means cropping the vector shape. 10 To change the size of the cast member, either enter a percentage in the Percentage text box (Graphical - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 169
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 158 User Guide area with a custom tile to create an interesting background that downloads quickly from the Internet. For more information, see Creating a either Classic or Default view; shapes are not available in the Flash® component view.) 3 Click a tool and then drag on the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 170
159 Chapter 8: Color, Tempo, and Transitions Several behind-the-scenes functions in Adobe® Director® are important to the appearance and performance of a movie. To control the way Director manages colors, it's important to understand the difference between RGB - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 171
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 160 User Guide Director identifies an RGB color as a set of hexadecimal numbers that specify the amounts of red, green, and blue required to create the color. When a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 172
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 161 User Guide If the movie is set to specify colors as RGB values, selecting a color from the Color menu specifies the RGB value of the color, not - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 173
2 Select Edit Favorite Colors. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 162 User Guide 3 Select the color box you want to change. 4 colors, it requires a different palette. For more information, see Solving color palette problems. Director contains several color palettes. The Windows and Mac system palettes are the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 174
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 163 User Guide • Double-click the cell in the palette channel where you want the new palette setting to appear. • Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 175
A C ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 164 User Guide D B A. Select a palette to change B. Define a new color C. Reserve, select, and rearrange colors D. Tools If you add new palettes to your movie from other graphics applications, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 176
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 165 User Guide Note: Be sure to select Remap Colors, not Dither. 8 Click Transform to remap all the cast members to the new palette. Select one or more - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 177
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 166 User Guide 4 In the Select Colors Used In Bitmap dialog box, click Select. Select all colors not To change the color by using the system color picker, click the Color Picker button. For instruction on using the Windows or Mac color picker, see your system documentation. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 178
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 167 User Guide Controlling color palettes images must refer to the same palette. To solve color palette problems, use the following guidelines: • To avoid color problems in movies for the web, map all 8-bit bitmaps in appear as the first 10 and the last 10 colors in the palette. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 179
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 168 User Guide Setting palette cast member properties When you create a color palette in the Color Palettes window or import a bitmap with its own palette, the palette appears - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 180
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 169 User Guide 6 To specify how Director removes the cast member from memory if • Playing the movie on a slower computer • Making the movie wait for cast members to download from a slow Internet connection • Animating several large sprites at the same time • Animating stretched - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 181
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 170 User Guide B A A. Tempo channel B. Click here to show or hide the effects channels 1 In the Score, do one of the following: • Double-click the cell in the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 182
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 171 User Guide C B A A. Step Forward B. Tempo setting C. Actual tempo Note: The Control panel attached to the bottom of the Stage does not include tempo settings. Tempo settings are - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 183
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 172 User Guide Creating transitions Like tempos, palettes, sounds, and behaviors, transitions have a channel set aside for them in the Score. A B A. Transition channel B. Transition A transition always takes place - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 184
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 173 User Guide Using transition Xtra extensions You can add custom transitions that are available as transition Xtra extensions. Transition Xtra extensions appear in the Frame Properties: Transitions - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 185
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 174 User Guide 7 If you are using an Xtra transition, click Options to set values that are specific to the Xtra transition. The developer of the Xtra determines the contents of the Options dialog box. See the documentation supplied with the Xtra. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 186
175 Chapter 9: Text Adobe® Director® creates text that is editable, anti-aliased, and compact for fast downloading of outline fonts on in dialog boxes and menu bars. Director does not anti-alias field text or support paragraph formatting and tabs for fields. As with regular text, script can control - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 187
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 176 User Guide When you open a movie created in a previous version of the Tool palette is in Classic or Default view. When in Flashcomponent mode, the tool becomes a textInput Flash® component. 2 Drag the text pointer across the Stage and release the mouse button to create a text - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 188
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 177 User Guide Create text cast members in the Text window 1 Select Insert > Media approximates the formatting. Director doesn't recognize embedded objects other than tables, and it doesn't support nested tables. It also doesn't recognize APPLET, FORM, FRAME, INPUT, or IMAGE tags. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 189
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 178 User Guide Editing and formatting text Director offers several ways to edit and format text. You can edit text directly on the Stage and format it with - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 190
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 179 User Guide • To specify the font, select a font from the list of available fonts. Be sure to use embedded fonts for movies that you intend to distribute ( - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 191
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 180 User Guide Director adjusts line spacing to match the size of the Director can quickly apply formatting changes to entire cast members, a process that is much faster than manually opening each cast member and applying changes. Any change you apply to a cast member affects - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 192
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 181 User Guide About anti-aliased text Anti-aliased text is text that uses color variations to make its jagged angles and curves look smoother. Director uses the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 193
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 182 User Guide Whole Words Only searches only for occurrences of the specified whole word. Case Sensitive searches only for text with the same capitalization as the text - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 194
Specify field settings • Select Window > Field, or double-click a field cast member in the Cast window. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 183 User Guide If necessary, use the Previous Cast Member and Next Cast Member buttons to navigate to the field you want to edit. For more information, see - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 195
2 Select Modify > Convert To Bitmap. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 184 User Guide Mapping fonts between platforms for field cast members Director uses a file named Fontmap.txt to map fonts in fields between the Windows and Mac platforms. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 196
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 185 User Guide Setting text or field cast member properties Use the field cast members) displays only the amount of text that fits within the field's bounding rectangle. 10 To set editing and display options, select from the following options: Editable makes the cast member - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 197
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 186 User Guide Use Hypertext Styles (text cast members only) makes hypertext links appear as they would in a web browser (with blue underlining), and then appear in red - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 198
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 187 User Guide You can also use the Save Bitmap feature with pre-render options if you're using special text characters for an audience that is not - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 199
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 188 User Guide Applying paragraph formats with Lingo or JavaScript syntax Lingo or JavaScript syntax can control paragraph formatting such as alignment and indenting for a chunk expression: • To - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 200
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 189 User Guide • To specify the size of the margin inside a field's box, set the margin field cast member property. • To specify the size of the drop shadow - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 201
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 190 User Guide Checking for specific text with Lingo or JavaScript syntax The script operators and manipulate text expressed in any of the world's writing systems. Adobe Director supports Unicode and provides support for multilingual data in movies. Using Director, you can create - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 202
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 191 User Guide • You cannot name a scripting Xtra as a Unicode string using the 'kMoaMmDictType_MessageTable' registry key. Also, you cannot expose lingo functions named in Unicode by using the scripting Xtras. • 3D model names are not supported name downloaded from Service - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 203
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 192 User Guide 2 On your computer, open the Control Panel and double-click the Regional And Language Options icon to open the Regional And Language Options dialog box. 3 Click the Languages tab. 4 Click the Details button to open the Text Services And Input Languages dialog box. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 204
10: Using Flash, Flash Components, and Other Interactive Media Types To add complex media and new capabilities to your Adobe® Director® movie, you can use Flash® content, Flash movies also helps you manage file size for easier downloading. ActiveX controls in Director can manage ActiveX application - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 205
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 194 User Guide Flash content is particularly effective for use in Shockwave® Player content, because as vector-based media, it is extremely small and therefore loads much more quickly than most other media types. Because Flash content is vector-based, you can scale and rotate the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 206
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 195 User Guide Loop makes the movie play again from frame 1 once it playing the movie at the required frame rate. 7 Select a Scale Mode value to control how the Flash content sprites are scaled on Stage: Show All maintains the movie's aspect ratio and, if necessary, fills - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 207
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 196 User Guide • You can rotate, skew, scale, or flip Flash content supported for Flash sprites, just as they are for vector shapes. Editing a Flash cast member If you have Flash MX or later installed, you can launch the Flash authoring tool from within Director to edit your Flash - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 208
starts when you double click a Flash cast member. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 197 User Guide Controlling Flash content with Lingo or JavaScript syntax Lingo or JavaScript syntax gives you precise control over the way Director streams and displays Flash content. Use these scripts to check and control cast - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 209
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 198 User Guide Colorizing and blending Flash sprites Use Lingo or JavaScript syntax to change a sprite's color and blend as the Director content plays. For more information, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel. Specify the color of a Flash sprite • Set - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 210
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 199 User Guide Placing Flash content on the Stage Lingo or JavaScript syntax can set whether Flash content appears at the front of the Stage and whether specific areas of Flash content and the Stage overlap. For more information, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 211
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 200 User Guide Controlling Flash content playback with Lingo or JavaScript syntax Use Lingo or JavaScript syntax to control the Flash content tempo; to specify which frame plays; and to start, stop, pause, and rewind the Flash content. For more information, see the Scripting - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 212
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 201 User Guide For example, the following expression sets the Flash variable called myColorSwatch to red on the sprite called myFlashSprite: sprite("myFlashSprite").myColorSwatch = "red" Get the value of a Flash by the behavior located on the Flash sprite sending the message. The - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 213
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 202 User Guide In Flash, you create a button or frame and then assign it a getURL() action in which you specify the message you want the Flash sprite to send to Director. Sending simple messages and script statements You can send simple strings or script statements from Flash - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 214
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 203 User Guide When the Director script receives the myDirectorScript message, the movie executes the movie-level Director script handler and jumps to the frame specified in the handler. Set up a script statement for execution at the sprite/Behavior level • In Flash, specify a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 215
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 204 User Guide Sending XML Data from Flash to Director You can send XML data from a Flash sprite or object to a script. 1 On the Flash a special instance of the Flash Player into memory. This way, you can use Flash objects without the need for a Flash cast member or sprite. In - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 216
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 205 User Guide Note: If you do not import any Flash cast members, you must manually add the Flash Asset Xtra to your movie's Xtra list for global Flash objects to work correctly in Shockwave and projectors. For more information about the movie Xtra list, see Managing Xtra - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 217
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 206 User Guide Using the Flash local connection object Flash includes an object type called local connection. The Flash local the local connection object is a Flash object supported in Director, it can allow communication between separate Flash content, Director movies, or - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 218
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 207 User Guide 1 Set up the onStatus callback. An onStatus event is generated each time . In this example, the callback handlers are located in the same script attached to the Flash sprite, just after the beginSprite handler. The onStatus event is generated each time the local - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 219
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 208 User Guide The allowDomain event is generated each time the local connection object and all the setCallback() methods, add a connect() method. This is actually a Flash ActionScript method that you send to the local connection object you created. pLocalConn.connect(pCon_name - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 220
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 209 User Guide sendSprite (1, #closeConnection) You might also use the close() method in Flash local connection object. The Adobe Director installation CD for Windows includes Flash Media Server, the Flash Media Server authoring components for Flash, and documentation. The Adobe - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 221
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 210 User Guide in a Flash sprite. Sample Flash content containing a video clip object is included in the Adobe/Support/Flash/ folder on Adobe Flash Player Help section of the Adobe website (www.adobe.com/go/flashplayer_help_en). Opening the Settings panel You must have a Flash - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 222
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 211 User Guide To display the Flash Settings panel, use the following script: sprite( , depending on how you want to make the panel available. Emulating the Flash Player context menu in Shockwave Player To allow users to access the Settings panel by right-clicking (Windows) or - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 223
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 212 User Guide • If adequate for your needs, use the Low quality setting rather than High. Using Low turns off anti-aliasing, which in turn, speeds up Flash Layering and transparency are not supported in this mode; however, if you just want to play Flash content within a box with - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 224
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 213 User Guide Once it is imported, the movie appears as a cast member in the Cast window. The cast members of a movie imported as internal media also appear - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 225
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 214 User Guide the Director movie. ActiveX controls are prohibited in Shockwave Player. Note: Not all ActiveX controls expose their methods Director. Because ActiveX controls are non-Adobe software, Adobe Technical Support does not support them. Inserting an ActiveX control You - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 226
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 215 User Guide 2 Select Insert > Control > ActiveX. 3 In the dialog box that dialog box lets you edit each ActiveX control and view information regarding each method that the control supports and each event the control can generate. 4 Set the values for each property in the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 227
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 216 User Guide Using ActiveX control methods An ActiveX control describes its functionality by using methods. Methods are simply functions implemented in the control that Director can call to perform some action. For example, an edit or other text-oriented control supports - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 228
use newly added components. For more information, see the Flash Documentation website at http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/. Selecting Flash components You can select Flash components to use in your Director movie by using the Flash component section of the Library palette. You can - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 229
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 218 User Guide RadioButton component inserts a graphic radio button that represents a single such as when the user presses a key or clicks the mouse. To handle an event, Flash uses ActionScript code that executes when the event is triggered. You can respond to these events in - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 230
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 219 User Guide A list appears of events that can be generated by the component. Set the event to true if you want to respond to the event in Director. The following example shows how to add a behavior to an instance of the Flash Button component supports the following Halo styles: - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 231
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 220 User Guide Style themeColor color disabledColor fontFamily fontSize fontStyle fontWeight Description The background of a component. This is the only by using its properties, methods, and events. For more information, see "CheckBox class" in the Flash documentation. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 232
User Guide Using styles with the CheckBox component You can set style properties to change the appearance of a CheckBox instance. If the name of a style property ends in Color, it is a color style property and behaves differently than non-color style properties. A CheckBox component supports the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 233
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 222 User Guide monthNames For more information, see "DateChooser class" in the Flash documentation. Using styles with the DateChooser component You can set non-color style properties. A DateChooser component supports the following Halo styles: Style themeColor color - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 234
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 223 User Guide Method Description DateChooser.displayedYear A number indicating the 's name. If you're building an application using components based on version 2 (v2) of the Adobe Component Architecture, it's a good idea to use a Label component instead of a plain text field - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 235
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 224 User Guide Using styles with the Label component You can set style a color style property and behaves differently than non-color style properties. A Label component supports the following styles: Style Description color The default color for text. embedFonts The fonts - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 236
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 225 User Guide List component parameters You can set the following authoring its methods, properties, and events. For more information, see "List class" in the Flash documentation. Customizing the List component You can transform a List component horizontally and vertically both - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 237
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 226 User Guide Style (Continued) Description (Continued) selectionDisabledColo The color of a row if it has been selected and disabled. r selectionDuration The length of any transitions when selecting items. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 238
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 227 User Guide Property (Continued) Description (Continued) List.selectable Indicates whether the The default value is 0. maximum sets the maximum value of the step. The default value is 10. stepSize sets the unit of change for the step. The default value is 1. You can write - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 239
User Guide Using styles with the NumericStepper component Set style properties to change the appearance of a stepper instance. If the name of a style property ends in Color, it is a color style property and behaves differently than non-color style properties. A NumericStepper component supports the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 240
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 229 User Guide RadioButton parameters You can set the following authoring parameters the RadioButton class. For more information, see "RadioButton class" in the Flash documentation. Customizing the RadioButton component You can transform a RadioButton component horizontally and - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 241
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 230 User Guide Property summary for the RadioButton class Property Description RadioButton.data The value associated with a radio button instance. RadioButton.groupName The group name for a radio button - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 242
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 231 User Guide vLineScrollSize indicates the number of units a vertical scroll bar moves each time an arrow button is pressed. The default value is 5. vPageScrollSize indicates the number - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 243
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 232 User Guide TextArea component Use a TextArea component wherever you need a TextArea component The TextArea component supports one set of component styles for all text in the field. However, you can also display HTML compatible with Flash Player HTML rendering. To display - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 244
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 233 User Guide Property summary for the TextArea class Property Description TextArea.editable A Boolean value indicating whether the field is editable (true) or not (false). TextArea.hPosition Defines - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 245
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 234 User Guide editable more information, see "TextInput class" in the Flash documentation. Customizing the TextInput component When a TextInput component styles with the TextInput component A TextInput component supports the following styles: Style color fontFamily fontSize - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 246
changes. Triggered when the enter key is pressed. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 235 User Guide Tree component The Tree component allows a user to view a Lingo object by using the XML Parser Xtra or an XML object using the Flash Asset Xtra. After you create a Lingo object that contains an XML data source ( - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 247
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ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 237 User Guide Customizing the Tree component You can size a Tree component horizontally and vertically during authoring and at runtime. While authoring, select the component on the Stage - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 249
Event Tree.itemRollOut Tree.change Alert.click Description Broadcast when a user rolls out of a node Broadcast when a user clicks on a node Broadcast when a node is opened by a user. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 238 User Guide - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 250
sound track, a voice-over, ambient noises, or other sounds. With Adobe® Director®, you can control when sounds start and stop, how long they whether on disk or over the Internet. This can dramatically improve the downloading performance of large sounds. Linked sounds are best for longer sounds such - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 251
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 240 User Guide Director imports AIFF and WAV sounds (both compressed and uncompressed), AU, Shockwave Audio, and MP3. For best results, use sounds that have 8- or 16-bit - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 252
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 241 User Guide either sound channel overrides the sound in a QuickTime or AVI video or in Flash® content. It also prevents the video sound from playing even after the 4 does not support DirectSound 5.) Check the Director Support Center at http://www.adobe.com/support/director/ for - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 253
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 242 User Guide • The default number of sounds that Director can mix in Windows is eight. This number can be decreased by modifying the value for MixMaxChannels in - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 254
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 243 User Guide After queuing sounds, you can still control whether the queue at CD quality. It's designed to resist data loss that can cause signal degradation and can improve download times for audio. WMA is similar to MP3, with two main advantages: it works better with low - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 255
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 244 User Guide Shockwave Audio size of the sound data in a movie, shortens the download time from the Internet, and saves disk space. Use Shockwave , the SWA Decompression Xtra is already included in the Shockwave® Player. If you compress sounds in Shockwave format in a projector, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 256
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 245 User Guide 3 Select Compression Enabled to turn on compression. 4 Select a setting from the kBits/second menu. 5 Select Convert Stereo to Mono if you want to convert a stereo - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 257
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 246 User Guide Playing audio with Lingo or JavaScript syntax Use SWA memory, use the preLoadBuffer member method. • To specify the amount of a streaming cast member to download before playback begins, set the preLoadTime cast member property. • To determine what percentage of a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 258
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 247 User Guide Edit 96 (Adobe® Audition®) or later to define cue points (called markers or regions within these programs). For instructions, see the points can be used on both platforms. AVI digital video does not support cue points. 1 Place cue points in a sound file or (on - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 259
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 248 User Guide Synchronizing sound with Lingo or JavaScript syntax By writing script that performs an action when a cue point is reached in a sound or QuickTime file, you - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 260
discs. However, you cannot export Director files in the DVD format. Note: DVD support in Director authoring and playback has specific requirements. See the minimum system requirements at www.adobe.com/go/sysreqs for more information. The Director media synchronization features let you synchronize - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 261
250 User Guide QuickTime must be installed on a computer in order to author or play back a movie that contains QuickTime digital video. RealPlayer® 10.5 must be installed on a computer to author or play back a movie that contains RealMedia digital video. For security reasons, Shockwave® Player links - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 262
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 251 User Guide Note: The Direct To Stage feature cannot be used with DVD or RealMedia digital video because DVD is always Direct To Stage and RealMedia is - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 263
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 252 User Guide To make sure that Director plays an entire digital video, do one of the following: • Create a tempo setting in the tempo channel by using the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 264
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 253 User Guide • To determine the number of tracks in a digital video sprite or cast member, check the digital video's trackCount sprite or Cast Member property. • To determine - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 265
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 254 User Guide Center is available only if Crop is selected. It determines a certainty. In addition, playing every frame might cause the digital video to take more time to play. 10 If Play Every Frame (No Sound) is selected, select the following options from the Rate menu to set - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 266
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 255 User Guide • To obtain a floating-point value that identifies which version of QuickTime is installed on the local computer, use the quickTimeVersion() method. • To control a QuickTime sprite's - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 267
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 256 User Guide and comprehensive digital media format available for streaming and download-and-play applications on Windows systems, set-top Netscape® 6.1 or later. Windows Media Video and Audio are not supported in Director on the Mac. Importing Windows Media You can import - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 268
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 257 User Guide 2 Select Windows Media from the Files of Type menu. 3 Select the an empty Windows Media cast member. By contrast, importing Windows Media requires the selection of a supported file and does not open the Windows Media Editor. 1 Select Insert > Media Element > Windows - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 269
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 258 User Guide DTS (Direct To Stage) allows drivers installed on the is also paused. Note: A playback rate other than 1.0 might fail if DirectX filters do not support it. Duration and Dimension fields are not editable. Using the Windows Media video window The Windows Media - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 270
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 259 User Guide When linking to DVD media content, that content can reside either on a DVD disc located in the DVD drive or on a local hard disk in a DVD Volume Folder. For DVD support to be functional in Director, a DVD drive and DVD player and decoder need to be installed and - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 271
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 260 User Guide Note: When creating a DVD cast member, if a video_ts folder cannot be found when the DVD cast member is created, an error alert will appear that - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 272
• audio • audiotrack • closedCaptions • folder • pausedAtStart • subPicture • volume ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 261 User Guide Cropping digital video Cropping a digital video means trimming the edges off the top or sides of the movie image. Cropping hides the cropped portions and - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 273
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 262 User Guide If you would rather scale the movie than resize it, select using QuickTime 4 or later. You can link the digital video to a URL, and the movie begins to download and play the digital video when its sprite first appears on the Stage. For the digital video cast member - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 274
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 263 User Guide Using RealMedia content in Director The Director Xtra for RealSystem Streaming Media (Xtra for RealMedia) adds RealAudio® and RealVideo® to the media types supported by Director and handles the playback of RealMedia content in the Shockwave Player by using an - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 275
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 264 User Guide RealAudio®, RealMedia®, RealNetworks®, RealPix®, RealPlayer, RealOne® Player Adobe\Support\RealMedia folder. • If you don't have the Director CD, select the videotest.rm file in the RealPlayer 10.5 could result in significant problems with playback. RealMedia cast - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 276
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 265 User Guide You can have as many RealMedia streams and cast members in your Director movie as you want, as long as you play them consecutively. This version of Director does not support playing multiple RealMedia cast members concurrently. RealMedia video The RealVideo portion - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 277
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 266 User Guide If your movie contains multiple RealMedia sprites (not playing at the wait before your content begins to play in the browser. The Shockwave® Player first downloads the Score information, scripts, and information about the size and shape of each cast member, and - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 278
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 267 User Guide • If the RealMedia cast member in your movie references a > Import, or use the New Cast Member (+) Add button in the RealMedia viewer. The instructions for importing remote and local files differ slightly. When you initially create a RealMedia cast member, the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 279
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 268 User Guide 4 Use the options on the Property inspector RealMedia tab to specify the properties of the cast member. For more information, see The RealMedia tab in - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 280
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 269 User Guide You can work with the following media properties: • audio (RealMedia) specifies whether the audio portion of the RealMedia stream plays (TRUE) or not (FALSE). The - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 281
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 270 User Guide RealMedia Target identifies a RealMedia sprite as the target for RealMedia behaviors that are attached to the graphic, text, or field sprites for the playback controls. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 282
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 271 User Guide These sprites should be basic graphic sprites, not functional buttons. The RealMedia behaviors add the button functionality. 6 Drag the RealMedia Control Button, RealMedia Slider Bar, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 283
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 272 User Guide New Cast Member (+) (Add button) lets you create a new but can be downloaded from the Adobe website. The first time a user attempts to play Shockwave content that contains a RealMedia cast member, the Shockwave Player automatically downloads and installs the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 284
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 273 User Guide If RealMedia Asset.x32 does not appear in the list, click the Add button, and select it in the Add Xtras dialog box. 3 Select the Include in Projector and Download RealMedia cast member, they cause problems when used on a sound not supported for RealMedia cast - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 285
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 274 User Guide • endTime • getPlayList() • loopCount • loopEndTime • loopsRemaining • loopStartTime • play() • playFile() • playNext() • queue() • rewind() • sampleCount • setPlayList() • status (Use the state (RealMedia) or mediaStatus RealMedia cast member properties instead. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 286
Director Behaviors on the Director Support Center at http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/director/. Attaching behaviors is Available to make the movie wait while the media for a particular frame downloads. When you attach a behavior, and the Parameters dialog box appears, the parameters - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 287
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 276 User Guide 3 To view a brief description of included behaviors, move the pointer over a behavior icon. If the behavior includes a longer description, you can view it in the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 288
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 277 User Guide Attach the same behavior to several sprites at once, using the Library palette • Select the sprites on the Stage or in the Score and drag a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 289
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 278 User Guide Getting information about behaviors Behaviors included with Director have brief pop-up descriptions. Some also have longer descriptions and instructions that you can view in the Behavior inspector. A scrolling pane in the Behavior inspector displays the complete - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 290
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 279 User Guide 1 Do one of the following: • To create a new behavior, click the Behaviors menu, select New Behavior, and enter a name for the new behavior. The behavior - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 291
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 280 User Guide MouseUp indicates that the mouse button was released. MouseDown indicates that the mouse button was clicked. RightMouseUp indicates that the right mouse button was released. ( - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 292
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 281 User Guide Change Cursor changes the pointer to a shape you select from the pop-up menu. Restore Cursor restores the current system pointer. New Action executes any - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 293
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 282 User Guide To allow users to set different values for a property in different For example, to define the property movement as an integer that can be set to a value from 1 to 10 and whose default value is 5, use a phrase similar to the one that follows: #movement: [#default: - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 294
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 283 User Guide • #movement is the property's name. A symbol (#) operator must number, use the form [#min:minimum, #max:maximum]. The example sets the range from 1 to 10. When the range is between a maximum or minimum number, the Parameters dialog box provides a slider that - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 295
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 284 User Guide ] description[#noise] = \ [#default:"", \ #format: #sound, \ #comment:"Sound cast member name" \ ] return :"); var tRange = propList(); tRange.addProp("min",1); tRange.addProp("max",10); tProp.addProp("range",tRange); description.addProp("movement",tProp); tProp = - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 296
#format:#integer, \ #comment: "Set motion to the right:", \ #range: [#min:1, #max:10] \ ] description[#noise] = \ [#default:"", \ #format: #sound, \ #comment:"Sound cast = new Array(); description["Movement"] = new Array(); description["Movement"]["default"] = 5; ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 285 User Guide - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 297
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 286 User Guide description["Movement"]["format"] = "integer"; description["Movement"]["comnt"] = "Set motion to the right"; description["Movement"]["range"] = new Array(); description["Movement"]["range"]["min"] = 1; description["Movement"]["range"]["max"] = 10; description[" - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 298
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 287 User Guide on mouseDown me sendAllSprites (#bumpCounter, 2) end // JavaScript syntax function mouseDown() { _movie.sendAllSprites(symbol("bumpCounter"), 2); } Note: The symbol (#) operator must precede the message in the sendAllSprites - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 299
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 288 User Guide Using inheritance in behaviors Behaviors can have ancestor scripts in the same way that parent scripts do. (Ancestor scripts are additional scripts whose handlers and - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 300
your audience in your Adobe® Director® movies. Using the keyboard, the mouse, or both, your audience can download content from the when a specified event occurs. With script, you can include simple navigation instructions as part of more complex handlers; you can also place navigation code in - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 301
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 290 User Guide 5 Stop the movie. 6 Drag the Go Next Button behavior from the Library palette to the sprite in frame 1. 7 Rewind and play the movie again. The - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 302
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 291 User Guide Jumping to a different frame Lingo or JavaScript syntax lets you and then return to the original location. Note: The play - play done functionality is not supported, and therefore cannot be implemented using the Object Model or the JavaScript syntax. A better way - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 303
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 292 User Guide • Use the play and play done methods. The play method branches done methods in the following situations: • When the movie you want to play does not have instructions about where to return. • When you want to play several movies sequentially from a single script. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 304
Moveable button in the Property inspector. Make a text sprite editable • Click the Editable button in the Property inspector. B A ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 293 User Guide A. Editable button B. Moveable button Making sprites editable or moveable with Lingo or JavaScript syntax Lingo or JavaScript syntax - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 305
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 294 User Guide Checking which text is under the pointer with Lingo or JavaScript syntax Lingo or JavaScript syntax can detect which text component in a text or field - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 306
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 295 User Guide Finding mouse pointer locations with Lingo or JavaScript syntax the keyCode property. A common place for using key and keyCode is in an on keyDown handler, which instructs the script to check the value of key only when a key is actually pressed. For example, the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 307
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 296 User Guide Lingo term RETURN commandDown optionDown controlDown ENTER images, and generate masks for 16 x16 pixel and 32 x 32 pixel cursors. (Mac computers don't support 32 x 32 pixel cursors.) An animated cursor consists of a series of bitmap cast members. Each bitmap - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 308
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 297 User Guide Windows Cursor Options.x32 Cursor Asset.x32 PowerPC Cursor Options Cursor Asset Purpose This file supports the creation of cursors while you author movies in Director. Do not distribute this file with projectors; it is not licensed for redistribution. Distribute - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 309
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 298 User Guide You can also enter a cast member number in the Member but you can achieve the same effect by using the lightest shade of gray available in the system palette. 10 Click OK to close the Cursor Properties Editor. After you create a cursor cast member, use script to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 310
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 299 User Guide For whichCursorCastMember, substitute a cast member name (surrounded by quotation marks) or a cast member number. For example, the following sprite script changes the cursor to the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 311
® Player, users can view your work on the web with Netscape® Navigator, Microsoft® Internet Explorer®, or other browsers that support web Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel describe each expression, illustrate its syntax, and provide examples. Because 3D is primarily controlled - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 312
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 301 User Guide The Property inspector includes a 3D Model tab. See Using the Property inspector for 3D. • The Behavior library lets you select the behaviors you want to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 313
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 302 User Guide The 3D methods and properties are covered according to rendering software, you must convert the file to the W3D (Web 3D) format, which Director supports. Typically, each rendering application requires its own specific file converter to create W3D files. For more - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 314
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 303 User Guide A B C A. Dolly Camera B. Rotate Camera C. Pan Camera • The two buttons below the camera buttons let you control whether the y-axis or the z-axis is the up - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 315
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 304 User Guide 1 Open the Cast window if it isn't already open. 2 Click the place other sprites on top of the 3D sprite. • The Preload option controls how media that's being downloaded to the user's computer is displayed. The media can be held back from display until it has been - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 316
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 305 User Guide Using rendering methods The rendering method refers to the specific way Director displays 3D images on the Stage. The methods available depend on the type - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 317
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 306 User Guide Using 3D anti-aliasing Director gives you the movie to ensure that the performance of Director is not affected. Determining whether anti-aliasing is supported Not all 3D renderers can perform the additional calculations that anti-aliasing requires. If you have - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 318
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 307 User Guide } Turning off anti-aliasing If you plan to animate any part of a 3D sprite, you might want to turn anti-aliasing off temporarily to improve - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 319
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 308 User Guide For example, attaching the Create Box action and Mouse Left trigger behaviors to a sprite will cause a box to be created in the 3D world each - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 320
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 309 User Guide Each 3D cast Resources and About lights and cameras. Animation Director supports complex model animations through the following means: • created in separate 3D modeling tools. • The Keyframe player modifier lets models play back time-based animation sequences. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 321
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 310 User Guide Saving the 3D world Changes made to the 3D world can be saved in authoring and projectors. The saved world can be reused as a new - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 322
311 Chapter 16: The 3D Cast Member, 3D Text, and 3D Behaviors Several Adobe® Director® features let you create a 3D movie: • A 3D cast member contains a complex internal structure that includes model resources, models, lights, and cameras. Each of these - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 323
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 312 User Guide The following figure shows the relationships between cameras, lights, and models within the 3D cast member; the relation of a model to a model resource; and the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 324
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 313 User Guide Method newMesh(name, numFaces, numVertices, numNormals numColors, numTexture Coordinates) newModel Resource(name, type) newModel Resource(name, type, facing) deleteModel Resource(name) deletemodel Resource(index) Function - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 325
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 314 User Guide Method Function Returns model.count Returns the number of model objects included in the Integer. cast member. model(name) Returns the model named name. Returns - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 326
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 315 User Guide Method shader.count shader(name) shader[index] newShader (name,type) deleteShader (name) deleteShader (index) Function Returns Returns the number of shader objects included in the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 327
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 316 User Guide Method newTexture (name, type, source) deleteTexture (name) deleteTexture (index) Function Returns Creates a new texture named name. The type can have the following values: #fromCastmember Returns a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 328
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 317 User Guide Method deleteMotion (name) deleteMotion (index) cloneMotionFrom CastMember(name1, name2, member(name3)) Function Returns Deletes the motion named name. Script references to this motion persist but - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 329
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 318 User Guide Cameras Cameras provide different views of the 3D world. A 3D cast member can have many cameras. Each sprite that uses the cast member can display a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 330
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 319 User Guide Method group.count group(name) group[index] newGroup(name) deleteGroup (name) deleteGroup [index] Function Returns Returns the number of group objects included in the Integer. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 331
1 Click the Property inspector 3D Extruder tab. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 320 User Guide 2 Set the camera position and rotation. As with the standard 3D Property inspector tab, you control camera position and rotation with the values that you - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 332
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 321 User Guide Shaders and shader properties determine the appearance of the surface of the 3D text model. Textures are 2D images drawn on the surface of the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 333
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 322 User Guide Type of Script Sprite function Sprite function Sprite function Hypertext Lingo Hypertext Lingo Hypertext Lingo Hypertext Lingo Hypertext Lingo Element pointToLine pointToParagraph pointToWord hyperlinkClicked hyperlink - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 334
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 323 User Guide Property displayMode member(1). extrude3d (member(2)) smoothness tunnelDepth by any sprite A behavior that needs no trigger In previous versions of Director, the trigger instruction had to be included as a handler, such as on mouseDown, inside the behavior. The - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 335
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 324 User Guide The following table describes the available triggers: Name ® interpreted as a right-click. To use this with Shockwave Player, you must disable the context menu and pass right-clicks through to the player. Triggers an action when the pointer is inside a sprite. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 336
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 325 User Guide Local actions When you attach a local action to a sprite, that action responds only to a trigger that is attached to that same sprite. The following table - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 337
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 326 User Guide Public actions As with local actions, you can add public actions to a movie by attaching them to any 3D sprite. Unlike local actions, public actions - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 338
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 327 User Guide Applying 3D behaviors Apply 3D behaviors in the same way as you apply standard behaviors in Director. You can attach as many behaviors to a sprite - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 339
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 328 User Guide About behavior groups The Parameters dialog boxes of the local and public action behaviors give you the option to assign the behavior to a group of - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 340
one of these cameras. A camera's position can be moved with the Property inspector or the Shockwave® 3D window. You can also use the Adobe® Director® 3D behaviors or Lingo or JavaScript syntax to add camera and manipulate camera positions. For more information, see the Scripting Reference topics in - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 341
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 330 User Guide Property Name name Access Get type Get bone.count Get model Get Resource. getBoneId ("name") Description Range or Default Unique string naming model resource. If - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 342
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 331 User Guide Property radius Access Get and set resolution Get and set startAngle Get and set endAngle Get and set Description Radius of the sphere. Controls the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 343
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 332 User Guide Property height Access Get and set width Get and set length Get and set top Get and set bottom Get and set front Get and - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 344
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 333 User Guide Mesh generator properties The mesh generator is the most complex model resource. It allows experienced 3D programmers to create complicated geometries at runtime. The mesh - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 345
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 334 User Guide Property Access face [index]. textureCoordi nates Get and set face[index]. texcoords face[index]. Get and set colors face[index]. shader Get and set Description - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 346
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 335 User Guide Property lifetime Access Get and set colorRange. end set numParticles Description Value Range Lifetime of all particles emitted, in milliseconds. Positive integer. The default is 10.000 ms. Color value of a particle at the end of its life. Any color value. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 347
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 336 User Guide Property emitter.mode Access Get and set emitter.loop Get and set emitter. direction emitter. region Get and set Get and set emitter. distribution emitter. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 348
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 337 User Guide Property emitter.drag Access Get and set emitter.gravi Get and set ty emitter.wind Get and set Description Value Range A drag value affecting simulation - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 349
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 338 User Guide Method loadFile (fileName, Overwrite, GenerateUnique Names) cloneModelFrom Castmember (name, model, castmember) cloneMotion FromCastMember (name, motion, castmember) newModel Resource(name, type) newMesh(name, numFaces, numVertices, numNormals - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 350
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 339 User Guide Models Models can be referred to by name or number. Models can be added to or removed from the world at any time. In the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 351
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 340 User Guide Property resource shaderList Access Get and set Get and set all polygons are drawn and the model is visible regardless of orientation. This might solve drawing problems, but it can also affect performance because twice as many polygons must be drawn. The default - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 352
) or not (FALSE). This is useful for detecting if a given node's parent-hierarchy tree terminates with the world group object or not. TRUE (1) or FALSE (0). ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 341 User Guide - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 353
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 342 User Guide Method registerScript (eventName, handlerName, scriptInstance) addModifier (symbol) removeModifier (symbol) update() translate (direction Vector, relativeTo) translate (x,y,z, relativeTo) rotate(x,y,z, relativeTo) rotate (position, axis, angle, relativeTo) scale( - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 354
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 343 User Guide Method scale(x, y, z) pointAt(world Position, worldUp) getWorld Transform() Description of which direction it is pointing relative to the camera or the world, use car.translate(0,0,10). To turn the car left, use car.rotate(0,45,0). The car model might have wheel - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 355
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 344 User Guide • Relative to another object: If you want to move an object so that it goes toward the right edge of the screen, use model.translate (vector(10,0,0), sprite(1).camera). If you want to rotate the object parallel to the camera and around the center of the screen, use - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 356
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 345 User Guide Property Name transparent renderStyle flat textureList When shader.renderStyle = #point, the vertices of the mesh are rendered, provided that #Fill is supported by the #software renderer. The #point and #wire values do not work with the software renderer. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 357
layer. Set: Specifies texture coordinate generation modes to be applied to all layers. Possible values are as follows: #none #wrapPlanar #wrapCylindrical #wrapSpherical #reflection #diffuseLight #specularLight ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 346 User Guide - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 358
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 347 User Guide Property Name textureMode wrapTransform List[index] wrapTransform List wrapTransform Access Get and set Get and set Get and set Get and set Description Default Access - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 359
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 348 User Guide Property Name texture TransformList Access Get and set textureTransform List[index] texture Transform blendFunction List[index] Get and set Get and set Get and set - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 360
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 349 User Guide Property Name blendSource List[index] blendSource List blendSource value is 0.9, the resultant texture will be 90% of the texture at that index position and 10% of the result of the previous texture layers Possible values are #constant and #alpha. Access to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 361
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 350 User Guide Property Name textureRepeat List[index] textureRepeat List textureRepeat Access Get and set Get and set Get and set Description Default Allows you to get or - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 362
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 351 User Guide Property highlight Percentage shadowStrength highlight Strength Access Get and set Get and set Get and set Description Default Percentage of lighting steps to be treated - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 363
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 352 User Guide Be aware of the limitations of your video RAM and that of your intended audience. Some video cards have as little as 4 megabytes of video - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 364
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 353 User Guide Property nearFiltering compressed renderFormat be resized to a dimension that is a power of 2. The scaleDown() method lets you retain manual control over this procedure at the texture level. Method scaleDown() Description Returns Reduces the height of the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 365
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 354 User Guide Groups Groups have many of the same properties and methods as models, except that you need to substitute the word group for the word model - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 366
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 355 User Guide Method Description Returns addChild(aNode, preserveWorld) Adds aNode to this group's list of children. An equivalent opera- Nothing. tion is to set aNode.parent to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 367
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 356 User Guide Method Description Returns translate (xIncrement, yIncrement, zIncrement, relativeTo) Moves the group by xIncrement along the x-axis, yIncrement Nothing. along the y-axis, and zIncrement along the z- - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 368
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 357 User Guide Level of detail (LOD) modifier properties The level of detail ( work in one of two ways: automatically by using the distance from the camera, or manually. To use manual mode, disable auto mode and then set the properties yourself. Use the following properties to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 369
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 358 User Guide Property whichModel.toon. style Access Get and set whichModel.toon. colorSteps whichModel.toon. shadowPercentage whichModel.toon. highlightPercentage whichModel.toon. shadowStrength whichModel.toon. highlightStrength whichModel.toon. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 370
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 359 User Guide Property whichModel. inker.creases model.inker. creaseAngle whichModel. inker.boundary Access Get and set Get and set Get and set Description Default TRUE (1) or FALSE (0) - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 371
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 360 User Guide This separation is deliberate and valuable: it can be important for a collision to be registered. In a game, for example, a projectile could strike a wall and the player's score could be increased. However, in that same game, you might not want the projectile to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 372
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 361 User Guide play them back in Director. Director supports both model keyframe and character bone player modifier. Keyframe animations use the Keyframe player modifier. Most methods and properties are available to both players. Like all modifiers, the bones and keyframe player - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 373
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 362 User Guide • Play list: The Bones player manages a queue of motions. The first motion in the determine how long the blend should be. You can control this manually by setting bonesPlayerOrKeyframePlayer.autoBlend to FALSE and using bonesPlayerOrKeyframePlayer.blendFactor to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 374
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 363 User Guide Method whichModel.bonesPlayer. queue("name", looped, startTime, endTime, playRate, it is also the currently playing motion. Nothing. Pauses the Bones player. Nothing. Bones player properties Use the following properties to work with bones animations: Property - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 375
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 364 User Guide Property whichModel. bonesPlayer. autoBlend whichModel. bonesPlayer. blendFactor whichModel. bonesPlayer. bone[boneID] transform whichModel. bonesPlayer. bone[boneID] worldTransform Access Get and set Get and set Get - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 376
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 365 User Guide Property whichModel. bonesPlayer. positionReset whichModel. bonesPlayer. rotationReset whichModel to #z. lockTranslation = #all is equivalent to rootLock = TRUE (1). Bones player events The following events are generated by bones animations: Event name #animation - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 377
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 366 User Guide Keyframe player methods Use the following methods to work with keyframe animations: Method motion. Nothing. whichModel.keyframePlayer.pause() Pauses the Keyframe player. Nothing. Keyframe player properties Use the following properties to work with keyframe - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 378
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 367 User Guide Property whichModel. keyframePlayer. playRate whichModel. keyframePlayer. playList.count whichModel. keyframePlayer. rootLock whichModel. keyframePlayer. currentLoopState whichModel. keyframePlayer. blendTime whichModel. keyframePlayer. autoBlend whichModel. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 379
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 368 User Guide Property whichModel. keyframePlayer. positionReset whichModel. keyframePlayer. rotationReset whichModel #z. LockTranslation = #all is equivalent to rootLock = TRUE (1). Keyframe player events The following events are generated by keyframe animations: Event name # - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 380
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 369 User Guide Mesh deform modifier properties The mesh deform modifier lets you alter an existing model resource's geometry at runtime. You can create twist, bend, and ripple - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 381
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 370 User Guide Motions Motions are simply animations that have been predefined motion with the following values: #keyFrame: suitable for use with the Keyframe player #bones: suitable for use with the Bones player #none: no mapping has been made for this motion The default is # - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 382
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 371 User Guide Lights and cameras have the same transform methods and parent-child properties as models and groups. Lights and cameras can be added, deleted, cloned, moved, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 383
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 372 User Guide Property Name spotAngle attenuation specular spotDecay pointAt Orientation boundingSphere worldPosition Access Get and set Get and set Get and set Get and set Get and - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 384
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 373 User Guide Method clone(name) cloneDeep (name) addtoWorld() removeFrom World() isInWorld() registerScript (eventName, handlerName, scriptInstance) translate (xIncrement, yIncrement, zIncrement, relativeTo) translate(x,y,z, relativeTo) Description Returns Clones a light - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 385
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 374 User Guide Method Description Returns rotate(x,y,z, relativeTo) Rotates the light by x degrees around the x-axis, y degrees around the Nothing. y-axis, and z degrees around the z-axis. The relativeTo - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 386
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 375 User Guide Property Name transform userData hither yon rect projection Angle colorBuffer. clearAtRender colorBuffer. clearValue fog.enabled fog.near fog.far fog.color fog.decayMode Access Get - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 387
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 376 User Guide Property Name projection fieldOfView orthoheight rootNode Access Get and set Get and set Get and set Get and set overlay[index]. loc Get and set - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 388
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 377 User Guide Property Name backdrop.count boundingSphere worldPosition Access Get Get Get and set Description Default Number of backdrops in use on this sprite. 0 A list containing a vector - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 389
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 378 User Guide Method Description Returns registerScript (eventName, handlerName, scriptInstance) Registers a handler named handlerName that is called in the scriptInstance when the member method sendEvent() is called with - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 390
379 Chapter 18: Controlling the 3D World Adobe® Director® provides powerful methods for overall control of the three-dimensional (3D) world, including Lingo and JavaScript™ syntax for handling new 3D-generated events, selecting - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 391
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 380 User Guide Method sendEvent (eventName, arg1,arg2...) Description Returns Sends an event named neither of the models involved in the collision has resolve set to TRUE, you can manually resolve the collision using resolveA(true) for model A or resolveB(true) for model B. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 392
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 381 User Guide Selecting models Selecting models (picking) refers to clicking on models in a 3D cast member. Because models are objects that exist within a 3D cast member and a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 393
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 382 User Guide Method modelsUnder Ray(location Vector, direction Vector, optionalMax NumberOf Models point on the surface of a unit sphere. Differs from vector(random(10)/10.0, random(10)/10.0, random(10)/10.0) because the randomVector() method always results in a unit vector. A - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 394
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 383 User Guide Vector methods Use the following methods to work with vectors: Method normalize the following syntaxes to perform additional vector math calculations. Note: JavaScript does not support these operations for vector objects. In JavaScript, you must write the code to - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 395
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 384 User Guide Operator Description Returns transform* vector Returns a new vector that results from applying the positional and A new vector object transformation changes defined by transform to vector. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 396
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 385 User Guide Property rotation Access get and set axisAngle get and set x axis get and set y axis get and set z axis get and set Description Default Script - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 397
and this transform describes a translation of 100 units in the y-axis, transform.multiply(transform2) alters this transform so that it describes a translation followed by a rotation. ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 386 User Guide - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 398
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 387 User Guide Method preMultiply (transform2) interpolate (oTransform2, fPercentage) interpolateTo (oTransform2, fPercentage) duplicate() identity invert() inverse() Description Returns Alters the original transform by preapplying the positional/rotational/scaling - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 399
#inker #collision #meshDeform A list of basic 3D shapes available for all 3D cast None members. Possible values are as follows: #box #sphere #plane #particle #cylinder ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 388 User Guide - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 400
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 389 User Guide Property texture Render Format Access get and set depthBuffer Depth are reduced in size if they exceed these maximums. #supportedTexturePixelFormat: texture pixel formats supported by card. #textureUnits: number of texture units the card has. #depthBufferRange: - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 401
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 390 User Guide Movie properties Use the following properties to control which renderer the movie uses: Property preferred3d Renderer Access get and set active3d get Renderer Description The - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 402
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 391 User Guide Property camera Rotation ambient Color bgColor directional Color directional Preset Access get and set get and set the default texture when textureType is set to #member. No texture Percentage of file that has been downloaded, with values from 0 to 100. None - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 403
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 392 User Guide Property bytes Streamed streamSize state Access get get get Description Default Integer number of bytes that have been downloaded, None with values from 0 to the size of the file in bytes. Total size of stream to be downloaded, with values from 0 to the size - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 404
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 393 User Guide Property camera targetFrame Rate useTarget FrameRate Access get and set get and set get and set Description Default Determines which camera this sprite is using. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 405
394 Chapter 19: Movies in a Window Adobe® Director® can play several movies simultaneously by creating windows in using behaviors from the Behavior library or by writing your own scripts. Shockwave® Player does not support MIAWs. Use MIAWs only with movies that you intend to distribute as projectors - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 406
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 395 User Guide window. Note: When you declare a MIAW, it is added to the player's window list. Assigning a filename and title to a MIAW Although the the open window method to assign that movie to a window and instruct Director to use the filename as the window title. • Use the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 407
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 396 User Guide window().new("movieName").open() // JavaScript syntax new window("movieName"); window("movieName").open(); -or- new window("movieName").open(); Unless you explicitly preload the movie through scripting, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 408
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 397 User Guide window("stage").rect window("stage").drawRect window("stage").sourceRect sourceRect A property of the movie's stage that indicates the "template" rect position at which the stage - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 409
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 398 User Guide General General properties let you set what type of MIAW you want, its title, whether it is resizable, and more. Some properties are for Windows® - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 410
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 399 User Guide window("window_name").appearanceOptions.mask = member("my mask") Drag Mask lets you icon bounces in the dock. The method arguments are flash count and rate. Setting the flash count to -1 causes the flash or bounce to continue indefinitely until the user responds. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 411
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 400 User Guide Setting default MIAW properties using the Display Template A movie is playing, such as the movement of a window by the user. Such a handler is a good place for instructions that you want to run in response to an event that involves a window. For example, to cause a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 412
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 401 User Guide • on trayIconMouseDown (Windows only) This event handler is triggered when a user clicks on the Windows system tray icon. This event is only meaningful if the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 413
Xtras Using the XML Parser Xtra The XML Parser Xtra lets Adobe® Director® movies read, parse, and use the contents of text that does not appear inside the angle brackets of a tag), or a processing instruction (a special type of tag that passes data to the parsing application for special processing). - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 414
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 403 User Guide An XML document is well formed if it has a coherent nesting either VOID, which indicates that the method is successful, or an error code that indicates a problem with the XML data. The following script statement sets the variable errCode to the return value of - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 415
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 404 User Guide • Character data has the property name !CHARDATA, and the value is the string representation of the character data. • A processing instruction is a property with the name !PROCINST; its value is another two-element property list. The first property of this sublist - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 416
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 405 User Guide Node Script Return value if an element Return value if text Return value if Processing Instruction attributeName[N] (N is an integer) String representing the name of the Nth attribute. VOID is returned if no Nth attribute exists or there is a script error. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 417
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 406 User Guide To refer to the text data that occurs within a particular tag, use the text property. The text is a child node of the tag that contains - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 418
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 407 User Guide put gParserObject.child[1].child[1].attributeName.count -- 2 Parser objects and XML nodes As described in earlier sections, the parser object in the gParserObject variable stores the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 419
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 408 User Guide The XML Parser Xtra adheres strictly to the XML -8 An 8-bit encoding of the Unicode character set. This is the XML default character set. • US-ASCII Supports only 7-bit characters. • EUC-JP The EUC character set, used widely in Japan. • SHIFT_JIS Also used widely - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 420
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 409 User Guide What the MUI Xtra contains The MUI Xtra contains several components that you can use to create dialog boxes: • Lingo elements: • Alert • FileOpen • FileSave • GetItemPropList • - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 421
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 410 User Guide To create an alert: Use the Alert function. To create an open file dialog box: Use the FileOpen function. To create a save file dialog box: - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 422
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 411 User Guide Before opening the dialog box, use the Initialize command dialog box is modal. #toolTips TRUE or FALSE. Sets whether to use tooltips initially. (This is not supported in Version 1.0 of the MUI Xtra. It is reserved for future use.) #closeBox TRUE or FALSE. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 423
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 412 User Guide Window beginning Additional components as desired. This can used as the message in a tool tip. . Specify "" for no tool tip. (Tool tips aren't supported in the initial release of the MUI Xtra. This is reserved for possible use in future releases.) The distance - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 424
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 413 User Guide Component #WindowEnd #GroupHBegin #GroupHEnd #GroupVBegin #GroupVEnd #label #IntegerSliderH #FloatSliderH #defaultPushButton #cancelPushButton #pushButton #toggleButton Possible setting for #value (Ignored) (Ignored) (Ignored) (Ignored) (Ignored) String Integer - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 425
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 414 User Guide set tempItemPropList = GetItemPropList(theBox) set the type of tempItemPropList = #pushButton set the title of tempItemPropList = , #jump, and #acceleration. This list is the default setting: [#min:0.0, #max:1000.0, #increment:1.0, #jump:10.0, #acceleration:0.5] - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 426
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 415 User Guide Attribute #sliderStyle #layoutStyle Possible values Can be set for A linear list of one or both of #ticks or #value. Sliders A list of values that includes - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 427
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 416 User Guide Property Title #popupList No GetWidgetList function also returns a list of supported general purpose dialog box component types. specify how a general purpose dialog box responds, write Lingo that instructs the movie what to do in response to an event and then - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 428
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 417 User Guide • Always make sure there is always a way to close a dialog box. Otherwise, it can be impossible to dismiss it. • Because you can update items, if - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 429
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 418 User Guide Using the Physics (Dynamiks) Xtra The Physics Xtra is a (dynamiks) Xtra is a fully integrated rigid body physics simulation engine for Adobe® Director®. The dynamics Xtra is supported on Windows and MAC platforms. The physics engine for Director has the following - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 430
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 419 User Guide • Angular joint or Constraint • Raycasting Rigid Bodies The to be specified for each rigid body for approximating the geometry during the physics simulation. The supported shapes are axis-aligned bounding box (AABB), sphere, convex hull, and a static concave shape - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 431
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 420 User Guide Collision Detection The physics world has methods to enable/disable collision between pairs of rigid bodies. In addition, you can register for a collision callback handler - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 432
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 421 User Guide 4 Set the properties of the Physics world using Lingo: The Physics world is initialized with the default set of properties. You must set the world - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 433
422 Chapter 21: Making Director Movies Accessible Adobe® Director® includes features that let you make existing and new movies accessible to users who have hearing, visual, or mobility impairment. The U.S. government has stated - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 434
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 423 User Guide Attach the Accessibility Target behavior 1 Create a shape sprite on the Stage using the Rectangle tool in the Tools panel. The accessibility behaviors use this sprite - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 435
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 424 User Guide 4 In the dialog box that appears, select the accessibility group name for the scene, such as Accessibility_Scene_1. 5 Click OK. 6 Select the editable text sprite if - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 436
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 425 User Guide All the sprites can now be navigated to and activated with the keyboard. You can repeat this process for each scene in your movie. Enabling - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 437
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 426 User Guide 1 Attach the keyboard navigation behaviors to sprites in your scene. For more information, see Enabling keyboard navigation. 2 Drag the Accessibility Speak Enable/Disable behavior from - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 438
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 427 User Guide These words are replaced in the captioning display sprite by later sections of the text being spoken. You select the number of words in each - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 439
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 428 User Guide Temporarily pause the speech • Use the voicePause() method. Some speech accessible movie, you must become familiar with the Speech Xtra extension's system requirements and download procedure, as well as the experience users have with your accessible movie in real- - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 440
Because the Speech Xtra is from Adobe, it is considered a trusted download. The user does not have to interact with any dialog boxes for the download to occur. When a user encounters accessible Shockwave® Player content for the first time, the Xtra downloads automatically. The Xtra is approximately - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 441
430 Chapter 22: Managing Memory Adobe® Director® has effective built-in memory management that is sufficient for most projects. To make memory available for new sprites, Director simply unloads the cast - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 442
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 431 User Guide Physical Memory shows the amount of actual RAM installed in the system. Total Used indicates how much RAM is being used for a movie. Free Memory - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 443
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 432 User Guide There are several more script terms related to memory management. For a complete list, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel. Preloading digital - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 444
433 Chapter 23: Managing and Testing Director Projects By carefully managing the resources that go into your Adobe® Director® movies, you can avoid problems that might arise when you make changes to the movie or change the location of the movie file or its linked media. Good testing practices - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 445
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 434 User Guide described in this section, you can prevent problems from becoming obstacles: • If the main. . Determine the range of configurations you have to support (such as Mac® OS, Windows® 2000, and Director Projector and Shockwave® Player environments for online content. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 446
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 435 User Guide • If you encounter a problem, try to isolate the problem in a new Director file that incorporates only the problem feature or item. Make a list of the minimum steps that are required to reproduce the problem in a new file. This process usually reveals the source of - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 447
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 436 User Guide Range prints the interval you specify in the text box. For example, if you enter 10, Director prints every tenth frame. Frames With Markers prints only the frames that and troubleshooting TechNotes is available at www.adobe.com/support/director/troubleshoot.html. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 448
play the movie, or they can use an installed Shockwave Player to play the movie independent of a browser. You Xtra extensions to include, exclude, or download. You can also preview your movie in see TechNote 13965 in the Director Support Center at www.adobe.com/go/director_support. Although the note - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 449
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 438 User Guide Shockwave player browser compatibility Shockwave Player OS® X 10.2.6 or 10.3; one of download the Shockwave ActiveX control if it is not already installed. If the user approves, it downloads support folder), which is a subfolder of the folder containing the player - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 450
especially true for movies distributed on the Internet. Including Xtra extensions The player includes the Xtra extensions that support the most common features and media types. These include text; vector shapes; Flash® content; BMP, PICT, JPEG, and GIF file importing; sound management; and Shockwave - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 451
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 440 User Guide If a user chooses to download an Xtra extension, Director retrieves the Xtra extension from the URL specified in Xtrainfo.txt, using the Verisign download security system. Verisign is a standard means of downloading text, Flash, vector . • To manually add an Xtra - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 452
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 441 User Guide Note: Another way to include Xtra extensions with a system to play a movie instead of including the player code in the projector itself. If no Shockwave Player is installed on the user's system, the user must download a copy. A Shockwave projector is excellent for - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 453
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 442 User Guide Distributing are listed in the Movie Xtras dialog box and that Download If Needed is selected for each required Xtra extension. For For more information about Shockwave content, see Using Shockwave Player. Using default Publish settings To create Shockwave content, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 454
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 443 User Guide Changing Publish settings Publish settings let you determine what the published files, click the browse (...) button next to each option. Network paths are also supported. You can copy the published HTML file and its corresponding Shockwave file to a web server and - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 455
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 444 User Guide • To . This option is enabled by default. Note: Director does not support publishing of projectors, HTML, and DCR files from MAC to any movie appears on the Stage or in a browser, and what type of player it is shown on. 1 Select File > Publish Settings and click the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 456
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 445 User Guide Setting Files options Use the Files tab to set file options this option, the behavior is similar to that in Director MX 2004. Refer to the Director MX 2004 User Guide for details. Scenario 1: Consider an image file (image1.jpg) placed in a relative path to the movie - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 457
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 446 User Guide 2 Click the Files tab. 3 To set the Primary movie components for your projector, select Select Play Every Movie In List to play all the movies in your movie list. 10 Select Loop to continuously play the movie until the movie is closed. 11 Do one of the following: - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 458
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 447 User Guide • Click Save As Default to apply the settings to all to the movie. Setting Shockwave options Use the Shockwave tab to set options that determine the Shockwave Player version, how images are compressed, how users interact with the movie once it's published, and more - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 459
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 448 User Guide • To make the DCR movie match the dimensions of your DIR movie, select Match Movie in the Dimensions field. 3 If you use the default Match - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 460
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 449 User Guide classid="clsid:233C1507-6A77-46A4-9443-F871F945D258" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw.cab#version=11 PlayerVersion="11" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/"> Setting - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 461
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 450 User Guide the image is compressed. • To specify that the image downloads as a progressive JPEG, select Progressive. The JPEG will then . Using dswmedia folders and the support folder to publish Shockwave content Shockwave content is played in safe player mode, which is a feature - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 462
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 451 User Guide The dswMedia folder is automatically created in the 8.5, you must upgrade them to the Director 8.5 / 8.5.1/10.X format before you upgrade them to Director 11. You must identify and manually upgrade casts and movies referenced through scripting. Previous versions of - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 463
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 452 User Guide The Choose Files dialog box 2 Click Next. The File Upgrade - Configure Settings dialog box appears. The Configure Settings dialog box 3 Select the movie for which - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 464
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 453 User Guide require certain Xtra extensions to use text, Flash content, connect to the Internet, and use can also add Xtra extensions to a projector manually the same way you select movie files. You the dialog box. 3 From the Player type menu on the Projector tab, select - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 465
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 454 User Guide Shockwave makes the projector use the Shockwave Player installed in a user's system instead of including the player code in the projector file. If the Shockwave Player is not available when the movie runs, the movie prompts the user to download avoid problems with - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 466
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 455 User Guide location for the projector to publish, and click Publish. 10 Close the Publish Settings dialog box. 11 Exit Director extensions that were installed with Shockwave player instead of requiring their own downloaded from the server when they are played in a web browser. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 467
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 456 User Guide data fork and a resource fork. These two fork files aren't supported on Windows. For each Mac Xtra extension, two files are created to the latest file format. • Compress movies for faster downloading from the Internet. • Remove redundant and fragmented data in - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 468
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 457 User Guide At the end of a project, use Update Movies to compress all your movies and casts at once. Update and compress movies and casts 1 Select Xtras > - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 469
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 458 User Guide You can export QuickTime digital video from either the Windows or the Mac version of Director. QuickTime must be installed on the system to export - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 470
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 459 User Guide Setting QuickTime export options Use the QuickTime Options dialog box the tempos have been carefully timed. For instance, some frames could be set to a tempo of 10 frames per second, and their QuickTime frame durations would be exactly one-tenth of a second. Other - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 471
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 460 User Guide 6 To determine the the movie and then branches to Shockwave content or protected content. This saves you the trouble of re-creating the projector every time you change one part of a movie. users to avoid downloading time for parts of the movie they do not use. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 472
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 461 User Guide The size of your movie may be less of an issue if you use streaming Shockwave content. For more information, see Setting movie playback options. - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 473
: Using Shockwave Player Adobe® Director® movies can use the Internet in various ways: hosting multiuser sessions such as chats and games, streaming movies and sounds, retrieving data from the network, and interacting with a browser. Whether it is distributed on disk or downloaded from the Internet - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 474
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 463 User Guide A challenge of authoring for Internet streaming is ensuring that all cast members have been downloaded by the time the movie needs them. To avoid missing cast members, make sure that all the cast members required for a particular scene have been downloaded before - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 475
Shockwave content, your users must have the Shockwave® Player, which comes preinstalled on many computer systems. The player is also available for free downloading from the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/. The Shockwave Player includes a volume control and a standard context menu - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 476
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 465 User Guide Flash, Flash Components, and Other Interactive Media Types. About streaming with the Score and behaviors The easiest way to create a movie that streams well is to arrange the Score properly and use behaviors to control the playhead. Director downloads this problem, - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 477
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 466 User Guide Loop Until Media In Marker Is Available loops the playhead to a specified frame until all the media elements for the frame at the specified marker have been downloaded. Loop Until Media In Frame Is Available loops the playhead to a specified frame until all the - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 478
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 467 User Guide Downloading files from the Internet with Lingo or JavaScript syntax Lingo performance. All network Lingo or JavaScript syntax operations that obtain data from the network begin downloading the data and return a network ID. The data is not immediately available. An - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 479
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 468 User Guide Retrieve movie is ready to play. After the new movie is ready, the player quits the current movie and plays the new movie in the same display in the Director Help Panel. The preloadNetThing() method initiates downloading a linked movie asset into the cache, where it - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 480
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 469 User Guide Retrieving network operation results with Lingo or JavaScript syntax Lingo or JavaScript syntax can retrieve network operation results, such as a text result, a unique identifier for a - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 481
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 470 User Guide • Searching for files on a user's system with getNthFileNameInFolder(), searchCurrentFolder(), or searchPath() • Permanently downloading to external media assets. The following Lingo or JavaScript syntax supports URLs as references to external files. If you use this - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 482
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 471 User Guide runs, a folder named Prefs is created inside the Shockwave Player folder (in the same location as the Xtras folder). The System Folder:Extensions:Adobe:Shockwave 8 folder. The OS X path is /my Volume/Users//Library/Application Support/Adobe/Shockwave/prefs. The - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 483
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 472 User Guide • 2000, XP, and Vista. For Mac®-Intel® users, these include OS X 10.4 for Mac®s with Intel® processors. Browsers include Netscape® 7.1 or later; Check for sound problems, particularly if you stream sounds with SWA. About downloading speed Developers distributing - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 484
defined 323 independent 326 local 325 public 326 viewing 324 ActionScript instructions 201 ActiveX 214 Add Inks command 87 Adjust Color filter 140 97 step recording 100 transitions 171 anti-aliasing 3D cast members 306 Flash movies 211 setting with Lingo or JavaScript 188 text 181 toon modifier - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 485
rotating 114 text, converting 183, 186 texture 320 tiling 124 Transform command 117 troubleshooting colors 167 tweenable filters 148 Blend ink 87 blending sprites 83, 198 Blur Filter 137 bold text 178 Bones player events 365 methods 362 modifiers 361 motions 370 properties 363 boxes creating 325 - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 486
effects, bitmaps 114 Favorites, editing 161 Flash movies 198 guides 75 hue 166 importing images 45 inks shader properties 344 sprites 83 text 320 troubleshooting 167 color depth bitmaps 117 changing for 36 components, Flash 217 compression bitmaps 131 JPEG 104 projector players 441 Shockwave 447 - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 487
finding location 295 Flash movies 198 rollovers 326 panels from groups 51 frames 35 guides 75 deleting panel sets 26 deploying movies window) 400 displaying windows 10 dissolve transition 172 distorting , definition of 11 dolly camera 326 downloading alternate image options 449 cast members 462 - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 488
downloading with Lingo or JavaScript 467 downloading, speed 472 importing 42 linking to 44 preloading 468 project management 433 projectors, options 445 types supported 71 Flash asset commonPlayer 194 Flash component Tool palette 32 Flash Media Server 209 Flash movies ActionScript instructions 201 - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 489
properties 354 guides color 75 positioning sprites 74 properties, setting 33 Guides tab on Property inspector 19 windows 10 HTML files browser options 447 movies 212 file types supported 44 Fireworks files 132 Flash movies 193 image options 262 distributing movies 441 downloading files with Lingo or - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 490
assigning cast members to sprites 87 behaviors, writing 281 bitmap controls 118 browser support 471 cast member properties, changing 59 cursor location detection 295 downloading files 467 editable sprites 293 Flash movies 197 handlers 379 importing files 44 jumping 290 keyboard detection 295 MIAWs - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 491
browser support 470 frames 291 sounds 241 loops, film 98, 99 M Macintosh browsers supported 437, ActiveX 216 Bones player 362 cameras 377, 381 collision 380 downloading files 467 event detail (LOD) 326, 357 mesh deform 369 renderer services object 387 subdivision surfaces (SDS) 326, 359 toon - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 492
members 53 cast members in window 49 frames 35 guides 75 keyframes 92 models 325, 343 selected bitmap areas 209 network operations background loading 463 downloading files 467 results, retrieving 469 3D 311 Flash 204 local connection 206 MIAWs (movie in a window) 394 renderer services 387 scripts - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 493
controls 167 modes 159 properties 168 remapping 117 troubleshooting 167 window 163 pan camera 326 panel groups 14 sprites, extending 78 playing Flash movies 199 PNG images, importing 132 pointers, preferences browsers 471 Cast window 46 for windows 10 number of sprite channels 15 Paint window 130 - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 494
105 behaviors 282 bitmaps 129 Bones player 363 boxes 331 buttons 290 cameras 9, 19 editing cast members and sprites 20 Guides tab 75 Guides tab, Stage 33 information not appearing in services object 387 rendering methods 305, 392 properties 390 Reset Monitor option 454 resizing bitmaps 103, 117 Flash - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 495
sets 26 scaling bitmaps 103, 117 Flash movies 198 HTML pages 447 rotated or of 21 scripting ActionScript instructions 201 editing 53 handlers supported 437, 438 context menu, disabling 211 linking to local media 250 MIAWs, not supported Snap To Grid 33, 74 Snap To Guides 33, 74 sorting Cast List 54 - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 496
text to 425, 427 speed downloading 472 Lock Frame Durations 171 network Direct To Stage option 304 Flash movies, placing 199 guides and grid 33 location of Flash movies 199 loading status, checking 466 movies 462 playback options 464 score-based 465 Shockwave Audio 243, 245 sound, formats supported - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 497
trigger behaviors defined 323 groups 328 parameters 327 viewing 323 troubleshooting color palettes 167 resources 436 testing movies 434 Truncate JavaScript 470 third-party extensions 439 user interaction 289 V variables, Flash movies 200 vector objects 382 Vector Shape window defined 150 editing - Adobe 65036570 | User Guide - Page 498
Verisign Xtra downloading 440 versions, supported 437, 438 font mapping 184 keyboards 295 projectors 456 sound issues 241 windows changing preferences 10 displaying and hiding 10 about 402 attributes 406 character sets 407 data, sending from Flash to Director 204 nodes 404, 407 parser objects 402,
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