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Hi, have a few 3D questions. Sorry if they area too simple, an just a beginner. - Is worldPosition of a model the center of the model? - If I want to find a point a certain below (down the y axis) from the world position, how do I do that? - If I'm making my 3d scene in Max, how can I define...

Hello all! I'm having an issue where the video portion of my flash movie, in my director movie will not play on the Mac Side. All works fine on the PC side, on the Mac all functions including the audio work just fine, but no video. I did make this project in Director 11 also, and the Flash...

I want to pause a QT movie with the space bar, one click stops it, one click starts it. The script below only works while bar is being pressed. - Help! on enterFrame me sprite (1).movieRate = 1 if _key.keyPressed(49) then if sprite (1).movieRate = 0 then sprite (1).movieRate = 1

Just installed the director 11.5 demo on OSX. And it completely overwrote my copy of Director 11. Nice. Thanks guys.

Director 11.5 was released, fixing some issues and adding some new features. But... if Director 11 itself was a minor update that PROMISES a lot of great new features in the future (DirectX 9 shaders, for instance), why i must pay $299 for another minor update? I think that who updates to Dir11...

Hi I have a Director mac project and want to create an app bundle for it I've worked due to Technote from macromedia http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16743&sliceId=1 It means I downloaded samle bundle referenced on that technote , and just copied my files into...

I am using director 11 and trying to change a sprite's width using the script: sprite(2).width = .......... It was working before but not anymore. I have been trying to figure out a logical error their may be but in vain so far. Is their any thing that can stop a sprite to change its...

The way i see... Director was kill...... It's been almost 5 years.. and nothing..... I miss Macromedia times :sad;

I'm really starting to regret Upgrading to Director 11. I didn't have any of these issues going from MX to MX 2004. All I'm trying to do is make a simple projector work on a Mac and it's one issue after another. Not to mention all this after updating a whole boat load of Xtras 11 requires. The...

Does anyone know how to make a Flash search widget work correctly in Director 11? I created a search widget in Flash and the swf works just fine and completes the search to the correct webpage like it should until I bring it into Director. I?m working on an interactive CD project that I?m...

Hi All, This is driving me crazy. I'm using a simple gotoNetPage script to link to users website. I've done this a million times before without any problem but now when I create the projector I get the "Script Error" prompt when I click on the link. I've even cut and pasted a gotoNetPage script...

I want to play online games like on meltgames.com and packgames, but I get that message: This application requires an Xtra (Shockwave 3D) that either does not exist or failed to initialize properly. Please make sure the appropriate Xtras are in the Xtra folder(s). I have no clue what to do.

Hello My apologies if this has already been asked a million times, had a look but couldn't see anything. Anyway, I have a scene where when the user hovers the cursor right, and the background image moves left (giving the impression they are looking to the right of the room), and the same...

I'm really starting to regret Upgrading to Director 11. I didn't have any of these issues going from MX to MX 2004. All I'm trying to do is make a simple projector work on a Mac and it's one issue after another. Not to mention all this after updating a whole boat load of Xtras 11 requires. The...

Hi By default Movies are paused when controls is selected. How can make a Quicktime Movie start automatically although the Movie controls is selected? Regards Simon

Hello, I made a standard Mac projector and published it. On my desktop all works dandy, however when I burn it to a CD I get this Application Error; This application requires Shockwave Player 11, which can not be found. Click on OK to download it. First off I'm confused since I chose the...

I want to make a director movie where the user can put a photo in a certain place on his computer and the movie will use it in place of the original photo in the movie. Is this possible?

Hi. How can I identify a genuine package for Adobe Director 11 from a seller? Best regards. Mihai

Hi. How can I identify a genuine package for Adobe Director 11? Best regards. Mihai

It would help me if any of you can do this in Director 11.5. Paste this text into word: hola, qu? tal va i qu? tal va, al?lots? Copy that from word and paste into a text member in Director 11.5 In Director 11 you'll see: hola, qu?tal va i qu?tal va, al?lots? If you see "qu? tal", and...

Downloaded the trial version of director 11.5, but am unable to select the checkboxes to create either MAC or Windows projecters. The people at Adobe assured be that the trial version was fully functional. ANy ideas why I can't create projectors? Thanks

Hello, I'm trying to launch an self extracting executable type program using Director 11. Everything works just fine on the PC side, but on the Mac side when you click the button it does nothing. I'm really new to programming for the Mac side so any help would be great! Here is the code I'm...

Here's the problem: I need to print various pages (with Print-o-matic) and the printing is controlled in moviescript. However, the pages contain 2 frames each, the first frame for preparing the page using EnterFrame code (showing "loading" text to the user) and the second frame which is showed...

Hi guys, it's time to spread the news, Director 11.5 has arrived. http://www.directorforum.com/showthread.php?t=4069 Cheers, Martin

I'm looking through the new 11.5 help and I don't seen any way to do a seek or get the current time of the video. What am I missing?

I just downloaded and installed Director 11.5 (tryout version) and created a simple dir and went to make a projector but in the publish dialog, the checkboxes are greyed out for both Win and Mac projectors. Is this a restriciton of the tryout version, or what? Any ideas? I can make a dcr...

What's the best method to delete a chunk out of a long string? The best I can come up with is the extremely clunky: str = "ABCDEFG" newstr = str.char & str.char str = newstr --"ABCEFG" Fine when it's just 1 character, but say I want to delete a larger chunk, or use the "item", "word",...

Hello, I'm trying to launch an self extracting executable type program using Director 11. Everything works just fine on the PC side, but on the Mac side when you click the button it does nothing. I'm really new to programming for the Mac side so any help would be great! Here is the code I'm...

Hello, I have been trying to develop an xml reader in Flash using actionscript 3.0, but it is a very difficult process for me and my mediocre actionscript skills. Then I found out Director 11 can use javascript code. I already have some working javascript xml readers that work and so I was...